Apples of Gomorrah, by Phil Minton & John Butcher

Apples of Gomorrah

by Phil Minton & John Butcher

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	1.	Dead Men's Bells 03:14
	2.	Common Cleavers 01:55
	3.	Sprangletop 00:55
	4.	Joyweed 02:36
	5.	Caper Spurge 03:48
	6.	Wormleaf 03:27
	7.	Itchgrass 05:30
	8.	Sticky Willie 03:22
	9.	Nodding Thistle 02:43
	10.	Fairy Cheeses 01:41
	11.	Herb Twopence 03:34
	12.	Sauce Alone 01:54
	13.	Nodding Spurge 01:02
	14.	Cuckoo's Stockings 01:20
	15.	Batchelor's Buttons 01:02
	16.	Beggar's Lice 02:54
	17.	Loosestrife 03:23

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PHIL MINTON - voice.
JOHN BUTCHER - tenor and soprano saxes.

Recorded in 1999, the original CD was released on GROB and has been unavailable for many years.

"In all tracks, vocals and saxophone dance with each other; sometimes they waltz, sometimes they trash, elsewhere they achieve a Butoh-like purity in stillness ("Wormleaf," powerfully dense in its lack of movement). Phil Minton is as playful as ever, which means he never crosses over to childish play-acting, even though his musical vocabulary would make it easy to do so. No matter how many times you hear Minton sing, the sounds he makes remain amazing and fresh. His sense of improvisation matches John Butcher's ability to keep proceedings on the cutting edge."
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released November 19, 2017

Recorded in London in 1999.
1-12 (Gateway Studios), 13 (LMC Sound), 14-17 (The Red Rose Club).

Photograph by Andy Newcombe.

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John Butcher London, UK

Improviser, Composer, Saxophonist.
Born in Brighton.
Lives in London.

johnbutcher.org.uk

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