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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Phil Minton
t i t l e : A Doughnut in one Hand
d a t e : 1998
l a b e l : Free Music Production FMP CD 091
g e n r e : Vocal
r l s. d a t e : Nov/2004
t r a c k s : 30
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 100,6 MB
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All music composed by Phil Minton
Recorded by Veryan Weston at the 'Friends Meeting House',
Welwyn Garden City in January 1998.
Production dat by Dave Hunt
Produced by Jost Gebers
Photos: Bob van Dantzig, Dagmar Gebers
Liner notes: Paul Dutton (Toronto)
First published in June 1998
Excerpt from the booklet:
The town of Torquay, in England┤s Devon County, sometime around
1957. A kid a couple of years out of school and as many years
into unwelcome labour at a printing plant, is introduced to the
work of painter Jackson Pollock. The kid, who┤s been listening
to John Coltrane and wood shedding trumpet licks, searching for
new modes of musical expression, drinks in the riots of colour,
the explosions of nonfigurative streaks, splatters, blobs,
drips, squirts and dribbles, and decides: "That┤s what music
should sound like."
The creative vision within which MINTON worked these elements
unfolded in a variety of contexts, onece his due-paying
dance-band days were behind him. He sang and played trumpet for
a number of years with the Mike Westbrook Band. His free
improvisational alliances have varied in dimension from duets
with percussionist Roger Turner to full orchestral ensembles
such as Tony Oxley┤s Celebration Orchestra. There have also
been closely charted ventures as in his collaboration with
pianist Veryan Weston. And there have been, for almost twenty
years, the solo.
It is MINTON┤s solo work that has had the least recorded
documentation. (à) There has been until now only one solo
singing release, the 1981 Rift records LP, A Doughnut in Both
hands. This second unaccompanied outing then, is long overdue.
Like its predecessor, it┤s a collection of improvisations,
captured by - but not treated with - electronic means, the
material presented just as it was created, without patching and
with no editing other than selection from several studio hours
of singing. The intervals and chords are simultaneous tones,
not overdubbings. (à) There are no second takes and no
retouchings. (à) These thirty songs bear the imprint of the
truth that resides at the core of PHIL MINTON, his physical,
empotional, spiritual essence.
It was, after all, just such an integration of body, mind, and
spirit that defined action painting, as realized by Pollock and
his colleagues. Though MINTON works with sounds, not paint, he
can rightly be included in that company.
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01-Universal Drainage [01:24]
02-Dough Song 1 [00:47]
03-Dough Song 2 [02:22]
04-Cut Wreath [00:57]
05-Tip Head 1 [02:14]
06-Dough Song 3 [01:29]
07-Para Song 1 [01:40]
08-Dough Song 4 [01:09]
09-Dough Song 5 [02:20]
10-Three Lies [03:01]
11-Dough Song 6 [02:36]
12-Tip Head 2 [01:51]
13-Dough Song 7 [01:54]
14-Dough Song 8 [03:27]
15-Para Song 2 [02:03]
16-Drainage Mr. Wilkins [01:12]
17-Drainage Mr. Wilkins Part 2 [01:21]
18-Dough Song 9 [04:40]
19-Dough Song 10 [01:26]
20-Dough Song 11 [01:28]
21-Tip Head 3 [02:14]
22-Para Song 3 [02:07]
23-Dough Song 12 [02:04]
24-Tip Head 4 [01:24]
25-Bishop Drainage [02:49]
26-Para Song 4 [02:46]
27-Dough Song 13 [00:35]
28-Ballad [02:15]
29-Tip Head 5 [02:12]
30-Lifting Leeks [02:44]
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60:31 min
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