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Phil Minton

Phil Minton is a British avant-garde 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 sings on a Jimi Hendrix tribute album, belting out the lyrics in 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 can be as unsettling as they can be mesmerising. 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 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. From Wikipedia (

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Quiet Neighbours Moaning

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Nightmare

Brian Abrahams, Thomas Bloch, Dean Brodrick, Lindsay Cooper, Ademir Kenovic, Phil Minton, and Gerard Siracusa

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Five Men Singing

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Cappa

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Song for Old Lovers (La Chanson Des Vieux Amants)

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ADVENT

2019

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By the Stream

2013

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Three Quarks for Muster Mark

1989

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Ways Out East, Ways Out West

2014

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The Enigma Carols

2011

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Say Yes. Til No. (Live)

2018

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The Knowledge of Its Own Making

2014

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Ways

2010

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...Past

2013

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Songs of Innocence

2010

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TRUE

Single • 2025

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Xmas Songs

EP • 2011

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Alive at Sonorités

EP • 2017

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Phil Minton, The Cutty Wren

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4 Walls - Which Side Are You On

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'Midhopestones' - Rhodri Davies, Doneda, Martin, Minton, Patterson

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Phil Minton's Feral Choir, Oxford, 14.11.09

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Vladimir Estragon - Das Lethargische

Minima Moralia • 962 views

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Phil Minton feral choir in Copenhagen

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Phil Minton's Feral Choir - @ Saint-Merry - Sonic Protest - 8/04/2015

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ali ibn rachid - maaaj wajf

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Phil Minton Feral Choir @ Instal 09, Glasgow

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Mulouse, France - Feral Choir

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