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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: 4WALLS ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: Which Side Are You on ▀ ░
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░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ rip.date....: 10-11-2004 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
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▓████▓▌ 01. airport insecurity 02:42 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. on reading, 'anthology of 1000 poets' 05:25 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. ces gens-lα 05:33 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. tales from the hindu tush 01:51 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. the skunk hath farted 03:25 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. if there are individuals you can tell from a 04:47 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ distance don't like garlic ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. which side are you on 03:13 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. class struggle 02:24 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. not all olives have pits- an under funded 04:31 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sense of wonderment ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. a milestone 02:30 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. im rhein 03:48 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Of all the weird and wonderful vocalists -- note ▓▌
▓████▓▌ not singers -- associated with Free Music, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Britain's Phil Minton, 64, probably has the most ▓▌
▓████▓▌ legitimacy, not to mention longevity. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Someone who started off as a trumpeter and vocalist ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with Mike Westbrook's Orchestra in the mid-1960s, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ he's long since abandoned the horn, along with most ▓▌
▓████▓▌ conventional songs. His usual output is a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ cornucopia of yowls, grunts, shrills, retches and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ gargles. Meanwhile his associations have expanded ▓▌
▓████▓▌ from the cream of BritImprov, including drummer ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Roger Turner, reedist John Butcher and -- regularly ▓▌
▓████▓▌ since 1987 -- pianist Veryan Weston, to interested ▓▌
▓████▓▌ players from the Continent, North America and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Japan. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? and the enigmatically titled ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Q are equally memorable because they show two ▓▌
▓████▓▌ little exposed sides of Minton's art. The former, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ recorded by the co-op band 4Walls -- Minton, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Weston, Dutch bassist Luc Ex and American drummer ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Michael Vatcher -- is a extraordinary disc where ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the vocalist actually sings words -- and it ▓▌
▓████▓▌ includes a lyrics sheet so you can follow them. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ As should be obvious from the title, this is a rare ▓▌
▓████▓▌ piece of agit-prop from the FreeImprov world, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ dedicated to, and featuring on four out of the 11 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ tracks, musical settings of the words of the late ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Paul Haines. As a salute to the poet who lived near ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Toronto and is described by Minton as one of "the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ secret carnival workers" it works spectacularly ▓▌
▓████▓▌ well. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Single letter Q is a different matter. Recorded at ▓▌
▓████▓▌ a French festival, Minton's vocal onomatopoeia is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ added to the cascading computer and machine ▓▌
▓████▓▌ manipulation of the Poire_Z quartet. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Consisting of long-time electronic explorers, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Gⁿnter Mⁿller on ipod, minidisks, selected ▓▌
▓████▓▌ percussion and electronics and Norbert M÷slang and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Andy Guhl on cracked everyday-electronics -- all ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Swiss-based -- and Frenchman ErikM on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 3k_pad.system, the band textures so overwhelm ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Minton's contributions that he's usually buried ▓▌
▓████▓▌ beneath the hardware and software. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Starting with the superior product, 4Walls adds ▓▌
▓████▓▌ music to an astonishing collection of lyrics. They ▓▌
▓████▓▌ range from the near-Dadaistic lyrics of Haines and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Brit Lou Ganfield to the serious poetics of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ late Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Mihn, plus songs by ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Jacques Brel, Robert Schumann -- in German [!] -- ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and the American folksong that gives the CD its ▓▌
▓████▓▌ title. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Perhaps it's a nationalist tendency, but to be ▓▌
▓████▓▌ honest, Minton sounds most comfortable singing ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Ganfield's "The skunk hath farted" [sic] and "Class ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Struggle". Both feature a musical hall lilt, with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Weston chiming in on the choruses, making the two ▓▌
▓████▓▌ appear like a couple of George Formby Sr. clones. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The later is taken at a breakneck speed, while the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ former -- actually an anti-Ku Klux Klan mockery -- ▓▌
▓████▓▌ includes an outright swing section from the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ pianist, a walking bass line and balanced flams and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bounces from the drummer. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Often sounding as if their incongruous imagery ▓▌
▓████▓▌ comes from an unholy collaboration between Ogden ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Nash and Louis-Ferdinand CΘline, Haines' four ▓▌
▓████▓▌ pieces can also be performed in vaudevillian ▓▌
▓████▓▌ fashion. His bizarre wordplay meshes with the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ band's natural musical anarchism. "Not all olives ▓▌
▓████▓▌ have pits: An under funded sense of wonderment", ▓▌
▓████▓▌ for instance, is treated as a parlor ballad with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Minton whispering the lyrics, that are amplified ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with sympathetic vibrations from Weston. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Additionally, the wordplay on "If there are ▓▌
▓████▓▌ individuals you can tell from a distance don't like ▓▌
▓████▓▌ garlic" causes the vocalist to not only use his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ natural and falsetto voices, but to indulge in a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ few cackles and gargles at the end, as the band ▓▌
▓████▓▌ plays jazz-inflected accompaniment. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Even more remarkable are the Ho pieces. "On ▓▌
▓████▓▌ reading, 'Anthology of 1000 poets'" features ▓▌
▓████▓▌ strummed bass guitar chords and flashing octaves ▓▌
▓████▓▌ from the piano, while Minton proves his natural ▓▌
▓████▓▌ tenor is quiet pleasant. On the other hand, "A ▓▌
▓████▓▌ milestone" almost turns into rock music complete ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with drum backbeat and simple strumming from the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bassist, as Minton exposes his inner Ozzy Osbourne. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The other three performances are less appealing. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Schumann's "Im Rhein" features the most extensive ▓▌
▓████▓▌ instrumental work with thundering drums and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ overactive piano. A deconstructed, metallic guitar ▓▌
▓████▓▌ run and pumping piano cadenzas detract from the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ title tune and Minton's delivery appears a bit too ▓▌
▓████▓▌ plumy and properly British to bring gravitates to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ lyrics written for the Kentucky miners' union in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 1931. Finally, when dealing with "Ces gens-la" ▓▌
▓████▓▌ written by an astute song genius like Brel, Minton ▓▌
▓████▓▌ reduces the portraits to a series of grotesques as ▓▌
▓████▓▌ he sing-talks the lyrics accompanied by near ▓▌
▓████▓▌ anthematic playing from Weston. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ If WHICH SIDE has a few missteps, Q may be mistaken ▓▌
▓████▓▌ journey. Salvageable is "q oder z", which at fewer ▓▌
▓████▓▌ than five minutes gives Minton appropriate space in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ which to burble, buzz and whoop vocal tones on top ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of textures that range from the quivering sound of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ cicadas to the rhythmic drone of a car motor ▓▌
▓████▓▌ turning over on a damp day. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Most of the time, though, it's difficult to find ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Minton among the liquid swizzles, oscillating highs ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and fluttering lows that make up the more than ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 39-minute "w oder q". Oh you can hear some dark ▓▌
▓████▓▌ barks, strangled, drowning cries, guttural growls, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ stentorian mutterings, demonic laughs and his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ever-popular duck quacking from time to time. But ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with four electro-acoustians going full blast, his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ vocals are an afterthought or an add-on. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Throughout, the timbres heard include vinyl record ▓▌
▓████▓▌ hisses, wiggling electronic buzzes, air raid siren ▓▌
▓████▓▌ explosions and turntable movements. The four ▓▌
▓████▓▌ instrumentalists are capable of coming up with the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ most hushed and delicate tones that can resemble a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ jew's harp being vibrated, computer and turntable ▓▌
▓████▓▌ surfaces being scratched and crystal glasses ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sliding along a shiny surface. But they can also ▓▌
▓████▓▌ produce intermittent rhythmic sine wave patterns ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and buzzing, sped-up slinky loops, not to mention ▓▌
▓████▓▌ whistles that are mechanized, motorized and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ carefully modulated. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ When in the final few minutes the scraped, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bell-like resonation turns louder with splayed ▓▌
▓████▓▌ tones and shooting star echoes, Minton's verbal ▓▌
▓████▓▌ response sounds alternately like an old man ▓▌
▓████▓▌ muttering to himself and an infant crying. His ▓▌
▓████▓▌ final exhaled choke, which suggests a man being ▓▌
▓████▓▌ slowly squeezed within a cybernetic vise, may be as ▓▌
▓████▓▌ symbolic as it is metaphoric. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Poire_Z may rate an A or B+ for its work on Q, but ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Minton can only received a T for Trying, with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ cumulative realization closer to a C or D+. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Meanwhile WHICH SIDE is not only a fine side of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ coated plastic, but a fitting vocal memorial to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Haines, the lyricist of Carla Bley's ESCALATOR OVER ▓▌
▓████▓▌ THE HILL among other major projects. ▓▌
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