Phil Minton "The Berlin Station" Org LP FMP 87 Fred Frith Lindsay Cooper 4 Walls
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PHIL MINTON "The Berlin Station" Original LP import / Out of Print / Very Rare / Collectible FMP-Records SAJ-57 Germany 1987
CONDITION: Vinyl is Very Good plus (VG+), with sleeve brushings only, needs cleaning, great copy!! Cover/Artwork/Glossy Inner Sleeve, are all Near Mint minus (NM-), with minor corner bumps and the beginnings of ring wear to top front only! Record starting to poke thru bottom of glossy inner sleeve. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Phil Minton (b. 2 November 1940, Torquay, United Kingdom) is a jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.
Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake with his own ensemble. He even once participated in a Jimi Hendrix tribute project, belting out the lyrics in particular over-the-top fashion. Between 1987 and 1993 Minton toured Europe, North America and Russia with Lindsay Cooper's Oh Moscow ensemble.
He is perhaps best known, however, for his completely free-form work, which involves "extended techniques" that are extremely unsettling. His vocals often include the sounds of retching, burping, screaming, and gasping, as well as childlike muttering, whining, crying and humming; he also has an ability to distort his vocal cords to produce two notes at once. As the DJ/poet Kenneth Goldsmith has described it:
“ Minton's range on this disc [A Doughnut in One Hand, FMP] runs from the sounds of a man choking on his own vomit to the sounds that grandpa makes when you finally decide to pull the plug on his respirator. Minton's like a little kid who's contact-miked himself playing yo-yo with his saliva; he's a baby drooling through his cries; he's mastered the art of the multiple burp; he's perfected the craft of goobering all over his finger and then running it over his lips while moaning. I'd hate to see what his mic looked like after he was done with it. ... Minton ... forces us to ponder the musical qualities of noises that we'd rather not deal with and for that fact alone, makes this an important recording. ”Minton's most frequent improvising companions are the pianist Veryan Weston and the drummer Roger Turner, but over the years he has worked with most of the improvising musicians in the European scene. Unlike some first-generation free improvisers, he has also become a frequent participant in the so-called electroacoustic improvisation (EAI) scene.
Track Listing:
A1 The Berlin Station 10:12 A2 Das Raspeln Und Zischen Der Nacht Percussion, Accordion, Vocals – Sven-Åke Johansson 9:12 B1 Lost Trainers 5:53 B2 On Metal Cello – Ernst ReijsegerElectronics – Tony Oxley 4:15 B3 The Slug Synthesizer – Michel WaisviszTenor Saxophone – Peter Brötzmann 3:15 B4 Sweet Suite Electronics [Live Electronics] – Hugh DaviesSaxophone [Saxophones] – Peter Brötzmann 8:10Companies etc?
- Recorded At – Quartier Latin, Berlin
- Recorded At – Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Credits?
- Design [Coverdesign] – Marina Rother
- Producer – Jost Gebers
- Recorded By – Jost Gebers
- Vocals – Phil Minton
Notes?
Tracks A1-A2 recorded live on January 11th, 1986 during the Kato-Tage, Berlin.
Tracks B1-B2 recorded live on February 17th, 1984 during the Workshop Freie Musik at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Track B3 recorded live on February 18th, 1984 during the Workshop Freie Musik at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Track B4 recorded live on October 31st, 1985 during the Total Music Meeting at the Quartier Latin, Berlin.
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