Jaap Blonk, Koichi Makigami, Paul Dutton, Phil Minton & David Moss's lyrics & chords

It was a match made in heaven, or rather on earth, at last year's 20th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. Five vocal artists on one stage—Dutch Jaap Blonk, Japanese Koichi Makigami, Canadian sound poet Paul Dutton, Englishman Phil Minton, and American new music singer David Moss—was indeed one of the highlights of the '03 Victoriaville Festival. Only mad vocalist Mike Patton was missing. These five men had never performed together on one stage, though they have worked with dozens of improvising musicians. Blonk h...read more