Phil Minton and Simon Fell with edimpro 14th Feb 2014

By Martin Parker / January 20, 2014 / 2013-14 season, Dialogues Festival, Edimpro / No Comments

Ticket reservations open now

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doors 8pm, venue, Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh.
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Vocalist Phil Minton and double bassist Simon H. Fell have between them some 75 years of experience in playing improvised music. In their current 2014 duo tour they aim to share not only the musical fruits of their collaboration in a series of concerts, but also discuss and demonstrate some of their approaches to (and experiences of) the question of improvisation, spontaneous creativity and non-hierarchical real-time collaboration within groups of performers of all sizes.

They’ll perform with Edimpro at Inspace on the 14th February 2014.

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, re-joining 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 many groups, orchestras, and situations, all over the world. Numerous composers have written music especially for his extended vocal techniques. He has a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher, and on-going 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.

Simon Fell is a composer and double bassist active in free improvisation, and contemporary jazz and chamber music. He has worked in small or medium groups with John Butcher, Peter Brötzmann, Lol Coxhill, Billy Jenkins, Joe Morris, Keith Tippett, John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Joey Baron, Elliott Sharp, Billy Bang, Christian Marclay, Han Bennink and numerous others, and was a founder member of The London Improvisers Orchestra. Regular groupings include SFQ, IST, Mick Beck’s Something Else, Hession/Wilkinson/Fell and many more. He has presented compositions for improvisers at the LMC Festival, the Termite Festival, the Frakture Festival, Leo Records’ Unsung Music Festival, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the BBC Electric Proms, the Festival Éclats d’Émail and on many other occasions.
His discography includes over 120 recordings.

 

Edimpro
is a large ensemble
of accomplished international instrumentalists, composers and improvisers based in Edinburgh with an impressive raft of genre busting collaborations producing consistently engaging and searching new music.

Press quotes

“Phil Minton is best known for his startling vocal improvisations. On his new solo CD, this sensible looking man proffers 37 thin slices of his unfettered soul. Not long ago these croaks, burps, high-pitched exhalations, deep-throated drones and shreds of garbled half-language would have seen Minton either burnt or hailed as an emissary of God.” The Sunday Times

“One of the greatest pleasures of the album [Glad Day] is the opportunity it brings to once again hear the remarkable vocalist Phil Minton. Minton is the most thrilling singer we have, with a messianic passion so fierce that his performances glow as brightly as Blake’s own tyger.” The Independent

“Simon Fell thinks at lightning speed: he plays with an alertness that won’t hear of any slackness in the music. He’s the best kind of virtuoso.” BBC Music Magazine

“By any account, Simon Fell is one of the most important musicians working today. As improviser, composer, and musical organizer, the depth and range of his music is truly staggering.”
Signal To Noise

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