Metal Breath by Carl Ludwig Hübsch / Phil Minton

Physical copies housed in stylish 4-panel digipack with transparent tray are available to order from 1 March, 2018

Carl Ludwig Hübsch: tuba
Phil Minton: voice

All music by Carl Ludwig Hübsch & Phil Minton (GEMA)
Recorded live at ORT, Wuppertal, Germany on 15/6/2016
Mixed and mastered by Reinhard Kobialka at Topaz Studio Cologne
Drawings by Geoffrey Winston
Photo by Ingrid Hoberg
Graphic design by László Szakács
Special thanks to Ina and Emmerich Hörmann

Born in Freiburg, Germany, Carl Ludwig Hübsch (1966) grew up playing clarinet in local brass bands and drums in punk bands. In the early eighties he swapped clarinet for tuba. He studied electronic music with Klaus Weinhold, later in Cologne he studied as guest in the composition class of Johannes Fritsch. Since 1990 Hübsch has lived in Cologne where he finally awarded a livelong stipendium at his own university. Has played in numerous big bands, small groups and recorded music with Jaap Blonk, Axel Dörner, Mazen Kerbaj, Christoph Schiller etc. / huebsch.me

British vocalist and voice artist Phil Minton (1940) started to play trumpet and sing with the Mike Westbrook Band in the early sixties. For most of the last fifty years, he has been working as an improvising singer in various groups, orchestras and situations. Numerous composers have written music especially for his extended vocal techniques. He has a quartet with John Butcher, Veryan Weston and Roger Turner, and ongoing duos, trios and quartets with above and many other musicians such as Audrey Chen, Sophie Agnel, Okkyung Lee and Joëlle Léandre. / philminton.co.uk

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