TWO
CONCERTS
Minton
- Butcher - Hirt |
Preis
/ Price :
15.08 €
Bestell-Nr.
/ P/O No. : FMP CD OWN-90006
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| Phil
Minton |
voice |
| John
Butcher |
tenor
sax, soprano sax |
| Erhard
Hirt |
guitar,
electronics |
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01.
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Vandoeuvre |
26:21 |
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1st
part |
03:57 |
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2nd
part |
02:20 |
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3rd
part |
09:34 |
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4th
part |
05:20 |
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Zugabe
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05:10 |
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02.
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Antwerpen |
28:47 |
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1st
part |
03:24 |
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2nd
part |
20:54 |
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3rd
part |
04:29 |
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Total
time: |
69:54 |
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All
music by Phil Minton (PRS), John Butcher (PRS),
Erhard Hirt (GEMA)
Recorded on June 25, 1995 at ‚Musique Action' Vandoeuvre
(1).
Recorded by Michael W. Huon on August 5, 1995 at
‚Free Music Festival' in Anvers.
Produced by John Butcher and Erhard Hirt
Mastering: Peter Cusack
Artwork: Jochen Twelker
Liner
notes: Markus Müller
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published in January 1998 |
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Excerpt
from the booklet:
In 1937, when John Cage prognosticated that "...the use
of noise to make music will continue and increase until we
reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments
which will make available for musical purposes any and all
sounds that can be heard", he could hardly calculated that
in 1997, a trio would record a CD on which a singer, a saxophonist,
and a guitarist would engage in a competition to do just as
he had predicted: use every perceptible sounds available.
If ERHARD HIRT uses electricity to transform his guitar into
an interactive noise library, JOHN BUTCHER and PHIL MINTON
refuse any type of electric aid; nevertheless one has the
impression that there is nothing, absolutely no sound, that
is not available for use. This special virtuosity (which,
in the case of PHIL MINTON, borders on the ability of his
voice to oscillate between Schubert and an aluminium shredder,
to traverse the intersection between a travelling circus and
the ´Three Tenors´ tour) is only worth mentioning because
it leads to musically fascinating results within the framework
of improvisation, as here undertaken. (…)
BUTCHER, HIRT and MINTON have played together a good six years.
MINTON, who is known as a legend (…) has again and again over
the last twenty years redefined the voice and its role in
music. (…)
HIRT is, in the best sense, the guitar professor of improv.
(…)
BUTCHER (…) displays his beguiling breathing methods. He arrays
microtonal, multivoiced sound levels in the room, out of which
HIRT and MINTON develop new formats. (…)
On one hand, a linear development is made clear; on the other,
possible alternatives for the listener are conveyed. The listener
then hears himself - and this process is an ever-renewing
one. |
Markus
Müller
Translation: Allison Plath-Moseley / Nils
Plath
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