...And anyone else who's interested, I know William and I loved this set at Victo last year: from the DMG newsletter: BLONK / KOICHI / DUTTON / MINTON / MOSS - Five Men Singing (Victo 092) That's right, you heard right - just five men singing and what fabulous group it is! This ridiculously cool delight features David Moss (once of Golden Palominos & his own Dense Band), Phil Minton (Four Walls). Jaap Blonk, Makigami Koichi and Paul Dutton (CCMC). Each one of these distinguished singers is a master of bizarre vocal antics and each is incredible in their own wacky way. David Moss led another vocal quintet called Direct Sound about fifteen years with a fine cd on Intakt. He has also organized the Global/Vocal Village Project over the past decade, which also features a variety of distinctive singers, as well as few choice instrumentalists. 'Five Men Singing' is their live set from the Victoriaville New Music Festival from last year and it was certainly one of the highlights of the 24 challenging sets. Since all of these fine fellows excel at doing strange and wonderful things with their voices, we get to hear a wide variety of vocal sounds from many traditions - opera, doo-wop, ethnic, cartoon characters, baby sounds, throat singing, drones, whispers, screams, snores, grunts, bits of narration, invented and alien words and too many hilarious and absurd sounds too difficult to describe. The only thing missing is the visual schticks, that those of us who were lucky enough to be there and witness this, will never forget. When I play in the store, folks either faint, puke or break into uncontrollable laughter. How will you react, only time will tell. CD for $15 Strangely enough I saw Phil Minton last weekend at the LMC Freedom Of The City festival here in London. still can't get over the fact he looks like he's about to have a seizure when he "sings". regardez Dave H (back to the hardcore lurking...)