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Blonk, Jaap / Makagami Koichi  / Paul Dutton / Phil Minton / David Moss: Five Men Singing (Les Disques Victo)


 

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Jaap Blonk-voice

Makagami Koichi-voice

Paul Dutton-voice

Phil Minton-voice

David Moss-voice


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UPC: 777405009227

Label: Les Disques Victo
Catalog ID: VICCD092
Squidco Product Code: 4004

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2004
Country: Canada
Packaging: Jewel Tray
Recorded at the 20th International festival of musique actuelle in Victoriaville (QuŽbec, Canada), May 16th, 2003, for the Radio show Le Navire Night.

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A quintet of madness that works surprisingly well. Avant vocalists Jaap Blonk (The Netherlands), Makagami Koichi (Japan), Paul Dutton (Canada), Phil Minton (England) and David Moss (USA) in a live a cappella concert. Funny, droney, engaging stuff.

Artist Biographies

"Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Holland) is a self-taught composer, performer and poet.He went to university for mathematics and musicology but did not finish those studies.In the late 1970s he took up saxophone and started to compose music.A few years later he discovered his potential as a vocal performer, at first in reciting poetry and later on in improvisations and his own compositions. For almost two decades the voice was his main means for the discovery and development of new sounds.From around the year 2000 on Blonk started work with electronics, at first using samples of his own voice, then extending the field to include pure sound synthesis as well.He took a year off of performing in 2006. As a result, his renewed interest in mathematics made him start a research of the possibilities of algorithmic composition for the creation of music, visual work and poetry.

As a vocalist, Jaap Blonk is unique for his powerful stage presence and almost childlike freedom in improvisation, combined with a keen grasp of structure. He has performed around the world, on all continents. With the use of live electronics the scope and range of his concerts has acquired a considerable extension.

Besides working as a soloist, he collaborated with many musicians and ensembles in the field of contemporary and improvised music, like Maja Ratkje, Mats Gustafsson, Joan La Barbara, The Ex, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble and the Ebony Band. He premiered several compositions by the German composer Carola Bauckholt, including a piece for voice and orchestra. A solo voice piece was commissioned by the Donaueschinger Musiktage. On several occasions he collaborated with visual computer artist Golan Levin, for the Ars Electronica Festival.

Blonk's work for radio and television includes several commissioned radio plays.He also makes larger-scale drawings of his scores, as well as visual poetry, which is being exhibited.

He has his own record label, Kontrans, featuring a total of 25 releases so far. Other Blonk recordings appeared on various labels, such as Staalplaat, Basta, VICTO, Ecstatic Peace, Monotype Records, Terp and Elegua Records.His book/CD 'Traces of Speech' was published in 2012 by Hybriden-Verlag, Berlin. Forthcoming is a sequel with the title "Traces of Cookery".A comprehensive collection of his sound poetry came out as a book with 2 CDs in 2013, entitled "KLINKT"."

-Jaap Blonk Website (http://www.jaapblonk.com/Pages/biography.html)
3/13/2024

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"Paul Dutton (born 1943) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and oral sound artist.

Dutton was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A member of the legendary Four Horsemen sound poetry quartet (1970-1988), along with Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Steve McCaffery, and the late bpNichol, Dutton joined his soundsinging oralities and harmonica-playing to John Oswald's alto sax and Michael Snow's piano and synthesizer in the free-improvisation band CCMC (1989 to the present). He has recently appeared in poetry festivals in Germany, France, and Venezuela, and at music festivals in Canada, the Netherlands, and Argentina. An accomplished writer, in addition to his published books, he has written dozens of published essays on music and writing.

Dutton has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including fellow oral sound artists Jaap Blonk, Koichi Makigami, Phil Minton, and David Moss in the group Five Men Singing, John Butcher, Bob Ostertag, Phil Durrant, John Russell, Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Günter Christmann, Thomas Charmetant, Xavier Charles, and Jacques Di Donato. His soundsinging has been called "fascinating, inventive, grippingly obsessive" (The Wire).

"(Five Men Singing) exposes every note, tone, timbre and texture that can be vibrated by the uvula, dredged from the throat and buzzed from the cheeks and lips."

More recently, he formed Quintet à Bras in company with two French poets and two French instrumentalists, and in 2009, Mr. Dutton performed at The Scream In High Park, which is an annual literary festival in Toronto."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dutton)
3/13/2024

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"Phil Minton comes from Torquay. He played trumpet and sang with the Mike Westbrook Band in the early 60s- Then in dance and rock bands in Europe for the later of part of the decade. He returned to England in 1971, rejoining Westbrook and was involved in many of his projects until the mid 1980's.

For most of the last forty years, Minton has been working as a improvising singer in lots of groups, orchestras, and situations, all over the place. Numerous composers have written music especially for his extended vocal techniques. He has a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher, and ongoing duos, trios and quartets with above and many other musicians.

Since the eighties, His Feral Choir, where he voice-conducts workshops and concerts for anyone who wants to sing, has performed in over twenty countries."

-Phil Minton Website (https://www.philminton.co.uk/8-2/)
3/13/2024

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"David Moss: Drumming and singing have shaped his musical life.First, his father's drum-set, Bertoia sound sculptures, duos with dancer Steve Paxton.

Later, singing: at Berlin Philharmonie, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Salzburg Festival.

2018/19: received the German Music Authors Prize for experimental voice; sang in Olga Neuwirth's opera, Lost Highway (Yuval Sharon, director); sang Frank Zappa's music at the Venice Biennale; visited Taipei, Seattle and Bogota with Heiner Goebbels' Surrogate Cities; worked with video artist Lillevan.

Moss received Guggenheim and DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellowships. He directs the Institute for Living Voice (and teaches).

In 2019 he made his debut at the ElbPhilharmonie, Hamburg as the baritone soloist in Xenakis ÄIS; with the Rundfunk-SymphonieOrchester Berlin under Peter Rundel

Moss has sung works by Luciano Berio, Carla Bley, Uri Caine, Johann & Richard Strauss, Gershwin, Neuwirth, Oehring, Bach and Coltrane. He is currently touring with the groove-trio Denseland, and with a solo program, Vox Paradiso.

Moss lives in Berlin, Germany."

-David Moss Website (https://www.davidmossmusic.com/bio/)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



Jaap Blonk-voice

Makagami Koichi-voice

Paul Dutton-voice

Phil Minton-voice

David Moss-voice

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Before April-2006
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European Improvisation and Experimental Forms
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