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Speak Easy – The Loft Concert DVD

PAL DVD (price: €12.95*)
NTSC DVD (price: €12.95*)

Video: PAL / NTSC, aspect ratio: 16:9
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0,Dolby Digital 5.1

Special features: Concert encore; Interview with Martin Blume; PanRec trailers

DVD release date: June 2, 2009

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Shot live in concert at Loft in Cologne on March 14, 2008, this film shows the band Speak Easy during one of their première performances documented on the Backchats CD.

Phil Minton’s sonorous voice is capable of producing disturbing sound collages, whereas Ute Wassermann’s polyphonic technique makes the room resonate with harmonics. Coupled with Blume’s finely nuanced percussive work and Thomas Lehn’s extraordinary analogue synthesizer sounds, a physical immediacy of rare intensity is achieved. Speak Easy is an organism rather than an ensemble, grown out of high musical competence and full of creative energy.” — Hannes Schneider


Speak Easy:
Phil Minton – voice
Ute Wassermann – voice, whistle
Thomas Lehn – analogue synthesizer
Martin Blume – drums, percussion


Directed, produced and edited by Pavel Borodin Camera operators: Pavel Borodin, Victor Ferin, Tata Pivovarova, Rustam Sadykov Sound recording: Christian Heck Special thanks to Speak Easy, Hans-Martin Müller, Ferenc Kahlesz


Year of production: 2008
Duration: 74 minutes