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Album Title   No Doughnuts in Hand
Date  2007
Record Label & No.  Emanem   4148   Emanem records website
Artists  Phil Minton
Reviews  
Phil Minton's 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 exhaltations, deep-throated drones and shreds of garbled half-language would have seen Minton either burnt ot hailed as an emissary of God.
Stewart Lee - The Sunday Times - 1 June 2008

Phil Minton's voice also occupies a category apart, a place in contemporary Improv that makes your regular 'sui generis' performer look almost commonplace. He is by turns singer, Beckettian monologist, Joycean counterfeiter of language, activist - "i have given this much more thought than blair did before he decided to invade iraq" comes last on No Doughnuts In Hand - and music hall turn, whose reshaping of the vernacular, simple songs, funny voices, short durations is as joyously accessible as it is radical.
Brian Morton - The Wire

Many of his oral expulsions require extraordinary muscular and respiratory control
Derek Taylor Bagatellen

Album Title   alive at sonorités   with Daunik Lazro
Date  2007
Record Label & No.   émouvance   EMV1027 émouvance website
Artists  Phil Minton: Voice   Daunik Lazro: Saxophone
Reviews
The sheer humanity of his vocalising comes across most effectively when there are no other instruments around, and even when the sounds produced are trans-human. Then the set with saxophonist Daunik Lazro appeared, an astonishing coordination of two very different but similarly conceived voices, Lazro's baritone horn capable of everything from emphysemic whispers to huge, heavily tongued blarts to singing passages that sit perfectly with Minton's occasional forays into abstract bel canto. Minton's is the nimbler voice, inevitably, and often some of the time Lazro muses behind him in short bursts of cello tone rather than engaging him directly. But the parallelism works and, while there's nothing on the set to match the sheer astonishment of the "Breath Out" sequence on No Doughnuts, the 50 minute Montpellier set is deeply involving and ultimately just as satisfying.
Brian Morton - The Wire

Album Title   tasting   with Sophie Agnel
Date  2006
Record Label   Another Timbre   Another Timbre website
Artists  Phil Minton: Voice   Sophie Agnel: Piano

Album Title Ways Out East - Ways Out West   with Veryan Weston
Date  2005
Record Label & No. Intakt Records   CD097 Intakt Records website
Artists  Phil Minton: Voice   Veryan Weston: Piano, Organ, Voice

 Album Title  Slur  
Date   2006
Record Label & No.  Emanem   4140 Emanem records website
Artists   Phil Minton Quartet - Phil Minton, Roger Turner, John Butcher, Veryan Weston 

 Album Title  Ammo  
Date  1998 Re release 2006
Record Label & No.  Leo records   CD GY 022 Leo records website
Artists   Phil Minton, Roger Turner


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Album Title  Mouthful of Ectasy  
Date  1998
Record Label & No.  Victo Records   CD041 Victo Records website
Artists  Phil Minton Quartet - Phil Minton, Roger Turner, John Butcher, Veryan Weston 

Album Title  A Doughnut in one hand  
Date  1998
Record Label & No.  FMP CD 091 FMP Online
Artists  Phil Minton 
All music composed by Phil Minton. Recorded by Veryan Weston at the 'Friends Meeting House', Welwyn Garden City in January 1998. Production dat by Dave Hunt. Produced by Jost Gebers. Photos: Bob van Dantzig, Dagmar Gebers. Liner notes: Paul Dutton (Toronto)

Album Title  Dada Da
Date  1993
Record Label & No.  Leo Records CD LR 196  Leo records website
Artists  Phil Minton / Roger Turner
Phil Minton, voice; Roger Turner, drums, percussion. Ah ha (02.19), Wa wa (03.50), Lala la la la (05.18), Car (04.47), Za za (10.38), Chacha cha (13.19), Ba ba (03.58), La du da (05.36), Dee da (04.33), Da da (00.35). Recorded by Martin Davidson at the Singapore Pedang, London, 18 January 1993. Cover artwork (reproduced right) by L. Denis.

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Album Title  Songs From A Prison Diary  
Date  1993
Record Label & No.  Leo Records CD LR 196 Leo records website
Artists  Phil Minton and Veryan Weston 
 
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Album Title  Drainage  
Date  1993
Record Label & No.  Emanem Records CD LR 4211  Emanem records website
Artists  Phil Minton voice / Roger Turner percussion
A1 - seemingly - 3:58 A2 - reasonable - 4:20 A3 - somewhat - 2:05 A4 - temperate - 5:18 A5 - no way - 3:37 A6 - lie - 1:10 A7 - tendency - 1:39 A8 - all probability - 4:49 A9 - with respect - 2:30 A10 - most likely - 7:10 A11 - quite - 3:37 A12 - actual fact - 7:25 A13 - in a manner of - 2:36 A14 - obviously - 5:03 B1 - civil - 32:41 B2 - adequate - 22:58 B3 - moderate - 9:07 B4 - supposedly - 3:12 B5 - frankly - 2:32 B6 - as it were - 3:28 B7 - not true - 2:40 A1 - A14: Digital studio recordings by Steve Lowe London - 2002 September 2 & 2003 February 28 B1: Digital concert recording by Paul Brogden London (Conway Hall) - 2002 May 4 B2 - B7: Digital concert recording by Jean-Marc Foussat Montreuil (Les Instants ChavirÈs) - 1998 May 19 Total time 135:13 All previously unissued

Album Title  Doughnut in Both Hands
Date  1975 - 1982
Record Label & No.  Emanem Records Records CD LR 4025  Emanem records website
Artists  Phil Minton Solo Singing
1 - ORDERS FOR THE PALS - 4:40 2 - "I FOUGHT" - 1:53 3 - WREATH - 0:48 4 - CENOTAPH - 0:45 5 - THE TWO LIES - 2:09 6 - NOTES ON AVARICE - 5:38 7 - BURNT MEMORIES - 2:22 8 - WOOD SONG ONE - 2:34 9 - WOOD SONG TWO - 2:57 10 - WOOD SONG THREE - 2:41 11 - WOOD SONG FOUR - 2:12 12 - TOO MANY DOUGHNUTS MAKE YOU ILL - 1:37 13 - TRUE STORY - 4:05 14 - WOOD SONG FIVE - 1:55 15 - TO EMMA GOLDMAN - 0:44 16 - EXTRA - 1:21 17 - BLASPHEMY - 3:21 18 - WELL - 1:52 19 - A GOOD SONG - 2:00 20 - PSALM OF EVOLUTION 1 - 4:47 21 - PSALM OF EVOLUTION 2 - 4:18 Analogue studio recordings: 8-16: 1975 August 15 in Bracknell by Doug Gleave 1-4 & 20-21: 1980 in London by David Vorhaus 5-7 & 18: 1980 in London by Paul Crawford 17: 1981 November 22 in Bresse sur Gromes by Jacky 19: 1982 in London by Paul Crawford Total time 56:06 1-15 originally issued in 1981 as Rift LP 3 16-21 previously unissued

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