John Butcher - saxophones
Phil Minton - voice
John Butcher and Phil Minton's collaboration is a blend of music, sound, poetry and theatre. The two of them first performed together in 1984, and since then they meet occasionally either in a duo formation, or in a trio with German guitarist Erhard Hirt, or they improvise as a quartet (the "Phil Minton Quartet") with Veryan Weston and Roger Turner.
François Couture writes about the duo's performance in their album Apples of Gomorrah (released by Grob Records):
"In all tracks, vocals and saxophone dance with each other; sometimes they waltz, sometimes they trash, elsewhere they achieve a Butoh-like purity in stillness ("Wormleaf," powerfully dense in its lack of movement). Phil Minton is as playful as ever, which means he never crosses over to childish play-acting, even though his musical vocabulary would make it easy to do so. No matter how many times you hear Minton sing, the sounds he makes remain amazing and fresh. His sense of improvisation matches John Butcher's ability to keep proceedings on the cutting edge. The main quality of this album resides in the brevity of the tracks. Most last between two and three minutes, enhancing the density of the playing."
-published in allmusic. Online at:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/apples-of-gomorrah-mw0001223402
Phil Minton Quartet (Phil Minton - Voice, Veryan Weston - Voice, Piano, John Butcher - Voice, Saxophones, Roger Turner - Voice, Drums) at Kings Place, London 06-02-2012
Sources / More about the duo/trio/quartet:
http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/Minton.html
http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/min_coda.html
Phil Minton is a free improvising singer, famous for his extended vocal techniques and his use of literary texts (by James Joyce, William Blake and others) during his performances, which are highly theatrical.
Sources / More about Phil Minton:
http://extendedtechniques.com/2012/11/04/podcast-2-the-voices-of-phil-minton/
http://www.philminton.co.uk/8-2/
http://www.wfmu.org/~kennyg/popular.html
Phil Minton - voice
John Butcher and Phil Minton's collaboration is a blend of music, sound, poetry and theatre. The two of them first performed together in 1984, and since then they meet occasionally either in a duo formation, or in a trio with German guitarist Erhard Hirt, or they improvise as a quartet (the "Phil Minton Quartet") with Veryan Weston and Roger Turner.
François Couture writes about the duo's performance in their album Apples of Gomorrah (released by Grob Records):
"In all tracks, vocals and saxophone dance with each other; sometimes they waltz, sometimes they trash, elsewhere they achieve a Butoh-like purity in stillness ("Wormleaf," powerfully dense in its lack of movement). Phil Minton is as playful as ever, which means he never crosses over to childish play-acting, even though his musical vocabulary would make it easy to do so. No matter how many times you hear Minton sing, the sounds he makes remain amazing and fresh. His sense of improvisation matches John Butcher's ability to keep proceedings on the cutting edge. The main quality of this album resides in the brevity of the tracks. Most last between two and three minutes, enhancing the density of the playing."
-published in allmusic. Online at:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/apples-of-gomorrah-mw0001223402
Phil Minton Quartet (Phil Minton - Voice, Veryan Weston - Voice, Piano, John Butcher - Voice, Saxophones, Roger Turner - Voice, Drums) at Kings Place, London 06-02-2012
Sources / More about the duo/trio/quartet:
http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/Minton.html
http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/min_coda.html
Phil Minton is a free improvising singer, famous for his extended vocal techniques and his use of literary texts (by James Joyce, William Blake and others) during his performances, which are highly theatrical.
Sources / More about Phil Minton:
http://extendedtechniques.com/2012/11/04/podcast-2-the-voices-of-phil-minton/
http://www.philminton.co.uk/8-2/
http://www.wfmu.org/~kennyg/popular.html
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