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Rhodri Davies / Michel Doneda / Louisa Martin / Phil Minton / Lee Patterson: Midhopestones

Read "Midhopestones" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
September 11, 2009

This album was recorded in January 2009 in the church of St. James the Lesser, in the village of Midhopestones near Sheffield, South Yorkshire--hence, its intriguingly uplifting title (incidentally, its track titles refer to other villages or features nearby). Maybe that recording location explains the sense of tranquility and beauty that pervades the music here. It seems as if all five players were on their best behavior as they were in church; everyone gets along well together; there is no ...

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Phil Minton - Roger Turner: Ammo

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 22, 2007

Purtroppo è scarsa la documentazione finora disponibile relativamente alla coppia Phil Minton - Roger Turner, nonostante le numerose collaborazioni tra i due. La Leo Records colma questa lacuna recuperando un vecchio (ma per nulla datato) vinile registrato presso il mitico Cold Storage, studio ricavato in una cella frigorifera londinese, nel quale operarono - tra gli altri - gruppi storici dell’avanguardia come This Heat e The Work. La comunione d’intenti è perfetta, senza segni di cedimenti: lo si nota sin dall’iniziale ...

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Phil Minton: Slur

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 25, 2007

Non è poi così semplice come può sembrare la riflessione sul ruolo della voce nei contesti dell'improvvisazione più libera: in quanto esito diretto dell'intenzione espressiva e con una capacità di mimesi che segue senza mediazione, la voce umana si trova così in una posizione del tutto peculiare, pronta a diventare capricciosa creatura, che si piega e sfugge a ogni definizione. Più di tutte, a nostro parere, sfugge a quella definizione di comodo, che ricorre spesso quando si vuole elogiare la ...

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Phil Minton Quartet: Slur

by John Eyles
May 21, 2007

This improvising quartet first came together in the mid '90s recording Mouthfull of Ecstasy (Victo, 1996), which was inspired by author James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake. Although, vocalist Phil Minton has for decades performed with individual members of the quartet, and since 1996 has recorded fine duos with all of them, this is only their second release together. In contrast to that first album, which integrated Joyce's words into the music, this one is entirely without words. Minton's ...

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Phil Minton Quartet: Slur

by Nic Jones
May 10, 2007

Phil Minton is virtually alone in blazing a trail for the male vocalist in freely improvised music and this is one of his very infrequent outings as a group leader. In his notes for the accompanying booklet he refers to having toyed with the idea of singing words on this disc. The fact that he could apparently see no point in doing so might just be the thing that makes this music so successful, as the intrusion of words might ...

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Phil Minton & Roger Turner: Ammo

by Glenn Astarita
February 16, 2006

Upon its initial LP release, this 1984 improvising session turned more than a few heads. And it would take a fertile imagination for one to reconcile the duo's rendition of Monk's “'Round About Midnight with the original, for example. Armed with boyish enthusiasm, the artists pursue a wanton spirit through their surrealistic game plan. Of course, British freestyle vocalist Phil Minton is a well-known improviser since the advent of this date with his fellow countryman, percussionist Roger Turner. But this ...

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Phil Minton - Veryan Weston: Ways Out East, Ways Out West

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 9, 2006

Ways Out East, Ways Out West non è solo un omaggio che il cantante Phil Minton e il pianista Veryan Weston porgono a Nestor Makhno - un risoluto e passionario anarchico attivo in Ucraina durante la Rivoluzione Russo e poi a Parigi negli anni Trenta “che non ha forse ricevuto la giusta considerazione nella storia" [per saperne di piò, visitate il Nestor Makhno Archivi] - ma è un omaggio all'universale spirito anarchico che aleggia, ad ogni latitudine, nell'arte dell'improvvisazione. Il ...