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Sunday 8th October 8pm £5/3
St Brides Church
Catherine Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L8 7NG

Toot Are:
Phil Minton - voice, Axel Dörner - trumpet, Thomas Lehn - analogue synthesizers

Needle eye expressionistic sound of three musicians, whose individual creations of sound merge into one another. The poetry of this music lies in its fragility....

Phil Minton

The 61-aged Minton began his artistic career first as trumpet player with Mike Westbrook's orchestra in the mid-sixties. He then decided to focus on the voice and appeared as one of the most expressive improvisers on the European scene.

One of his projects of recent years has been the Feral Choir. Feral Choir workshops and performances have been held at the Musik Centrum Stockholm, Berlin Kreuzberg Festival, Centre for Performance Research 'Giving Voice' Cardiff, Dodorama Rotterdam, Musickzentrum Munich, For 80 voices in Tokyo, and most recently at the Vandoeuvre Festival Nancy, and Festival de la Cite Lausanne.

PREVIOUS FRAKTURE VISITS
Phil Minton Quartet 18/03/1998
Feral Choir: September 15-17th 2006

Axel Dörner - trumpet

Axel Doerner, born 1964, began his musical career with the piano before he turned to the trumpet at the beginning of the 90's. Since he moved to Berlin in 1994, he has been one of the most in demand trumpet players in Germany and involved in an immense number of most different projects.
He has played in various jazz and free improvisation groups along with musicians like Mats Gustaffson, Xavier Charles, Sven-Åke Johansson, Andrea Neumann, Annette Krebs, John Butcher, Butch Morris and the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra.

First visit to Frakture.

Thomas Lehn - analogue synthesizers

Based on his background as an interpreting and improvising pianist in the fields of classical, contemporary and jazz music Thomas Lehn developed his individual language in live-electronic music and this interest is pursued in parallel to his work as a pianist. The electronic equipment he uses consists of analogue synthesizers of the late 1960s.
As a synthesizer player he has repeatedly collaborated with John Butcher, Günter Christmann, Axel Dörner, Phil Durrant, Wolfgang Fuchs, Gerry Hemingway, Tim Hodgkinson, Paul Lovens, Keith Rowe, John Russell, Roger Turner and many others.

PREVIOUS FRAKTURE VISITS
Konk Pack, 23/02/2001
Konk Pack, 28/02/2006

Updated: February 25, 2008

Toots Links:

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Toot CD Review