Past CD

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Eating Centuries

2. Romantic Artist

3. When Icicles Hang By The Wall

4. Gemini I

5. In Wunderschonen Monat Mai

6. Dream, A

7. Frogs Arose

8. Magnificat

9. Im Rhein, Im Heiligen Strome

10. Gemini II

11. Milestone

12. Fly, The

13. I Guess I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive

14. Floating Sock

15. Maggie And Milly And Molly And May

16. On Whispering

17. Waters Of March

18. Untitled

Notes & Personnel Info
	Personnel: Phil Minton (vocals); Veryan Weston (vocals, piano).
	When you get willful eccentrics like singer/sound experimentalist Phil Minton and pianist/singer Veryan Weston together, there's a pretty decent chance that the results will be less than listenable. But there's also a good chance that they'll be quirkily delightful, and this album ends up offering a good helping of each. There's charming whimsy of the Henry Cow-meets-Bertolt Brecht variety on the tongue-in-cheek "Romantic Artist," and there's goofy experimentalism on "Gemini I"; there's a dreadfully ill-advised attempt at Schumann's In Wundersch?nen Monat Mai, which serves only to emphasize Minton's vocal limitations (as Schumann tends to do for all singers), and there's a slightly more enjoyable rendition of Hank Williams' classic "I Guess I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." There's also a completely ridiculous and ultimately tedious deconstruction of a Monteverdi Magnificat setting. But even at their worst, Minton and Weston communicate a warmth and humor that is always fun, or at least interesting, to hear -- the mistakes seem to be made in good faith. That's something, anyway. ~ Rick Anderson
Producer: Massimo Simonini
Engineer: Vincenzo Vasi

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Past (2004)