kevin ayers: what more can i say? (the reel demo recordings from the early seventies plus some bonustracks featuring lol coxhill, soft machine, gong and some more)

 

bassism, baby. kevin ayers is my kind of a cool banananana, mon amour. send your parents to sleep and listen to him pissing on a violin and et cetera blabla and you woodn't be hear nore evan existe pas iff you diddent know/knew/now wot eyem singinging about in the morning yes theirs no tumor roar no todie. the kevin is the kevin in all of us in all in oursold.

this greatgreatgreat album full of rawpowdered sketches and dissaspearing fraqmints was released by the greatgreatgreat reel recordings in 2008 and though it is greatgreatgreat as a standalone in itself i added some greatgreatgreat bonustracks for your listening pleasure and had a lot of fun. what more can i say?

 

and here we go with the album:

01 - unfinished (listen directly)

02 - this song isn't called anything

03 - crystal clear (with archie legget and eddie sparrow)

04 - crying (with david bedford, mike oldfield and robert wyatt) (listen directly)

05 - clarence in oyster land (with david bedford and probably eddie sparrow)

06 - dreaming doctor (listen directly)

07 - what more can anyone say...

 

 

 

and here's for the bonustracks:

 

 

08 - lol coxhill - vorblifa/exit

09 - lol coxhill - a collective improvisation (listen directly)

(lol coxhill, soprano saxophone / dave dufort, drums / david bedford, keyboards / mike oldfield, guitar / kevin ayers badly dissguided ass "kirwin dear", bass and/or guitar / 1970 / from ear of beholder)

 

 

 

10 - kevin ayers and the wizzards of twiddly - short interlude (live in solingen 1995)

 

 

 

11 - the ultramarine big band - hymn (from the ultramarine hymn remixes 1996, featuring kevin ayers, lol coxhill, jimmy hastings and all the othererers)

12 - kevin ayers - hymn (demo 1972, unknown provenance, found on the "internet" in 1999) (listen directly)

 

13 - gong - clarence in wonderland (radio session, probably 1970. found on the history and the mystery of the planet gong and of course featuring kevin ayers)

 

 

14 - the soft machine - we did it again (11th of august 1968 live in davenport, iowa. mike ratledge, robert wyatt, kevin ayers. from the double-cd tanglewood tails, and included here because it sounds just like the following demo recording of the wilde flowers) (listen directly)

15 - the wilde flowers - you really got me (demo recording 1964, with robert wyatt on drums, hugh hopper on bass, brian hopper on guitar, and kevin ayers singinging. you may find out more about the wilde flowers in this=here blog way down below) (listen directly)

16 - kevin ayers - mr. cool (live in bremen 1976; more of this concert can be found in this=here your favouriot blog by following the following link)

17 - kevin ayers and the wizzards of twiddly - stranger in blue suede shoes (live in solingen 1995; i found this concert recording somewhere hidden in/or/on the internet in 2016 and you can do so as well, can't you?) (listen directly)

 

download the reel demos and the bonustracks

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a compendium of rare british jazz recordings from the sixties and seventies: trad dads, dirty boppers and free fusioneers, featuring john stevens, elton dean, robert wyatt, ian carr, john surman, gary windo, john marshall, kenny wheeler, lyn dobson, and even derek bailey

 

 

the first wave of the british free improvised music scene of the seventies and eighties of the last century was not just a handful of funny people playing plingplong brötztröt squeak boing dadadum to fool and disturb the audience, but their quest for an agrammatistic terminology and their perpetual piercing of conventional listening habits was deeply rooted in modern classical music and in the european reception and interpretation of american free jazz.

the album trad dads, dirty boppers and free fusioneers was the last great work michael king compiled and created for reel recordings in 2012 before his untimely death. and though it deals with semi-traditional music it is not an easy listening affair. for your pleasure i added a coeval and apposite track by derek bailey to make it even more disturbing. this is what you want, this is what you get.

 

 

01 - mike taylor quintet - phrygie 1961

02 - henry lowther-lyn dobson quintet - scarpo 1964
03 - john stevens seven - number three 1965
04 - mike osborne / john surman quartet - an idea 1966 (listen directly)
05 - joe harriott quintet - shadow 1968
06 - amancio d'silva with the don rendell / ian carr quintet - joyce county 1969
07 - gary windo's symbiosis - standfast 1971
08 - elton dean's just us - beer garden 1972 (listen directly)
09 - lol coxhill & steve miller - for those who prefer it mid tempo 1974
10 - graham collier music - singing for the small change 1975

 

 

 

and one more track added on as an extra encore:

 

11 - derek bailey (uncredited bonustrack from incus taps, probably 1973) (listen directly)

 

 

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this is not this heat: charles hayward with the radar favourites in 1974 and with quiet sun in 1975 and even with coil later on

before inventing all this praepostpunknoise with this heat in 1978 charles hayward was a very prolific drummer playing with phil manzanera's quiet sun in the early seventies (unfortunately none of their recordings taken before the january 1975 reunion seem to have survived) and playing and recording with the henry cow offspring radar favourites in 1974.

for your listening pleasure i compiled the eponymous radar favourites album recorded in 1974 and produced by michael king for the release on reel recordings in 2010 and the bonustracks that can be found on the 2011 expression records release of the 1975 quiet sun album mainstream (yes, just the bonustracks; i guess you've got the album anyway) and two tracks charles hayward recorded with coil in london sometime between january 1988 and october 1990. you may listen to some of the tracks right here in this post, and you can download the complete compilation way down below.

 

first of all there is the radar favourites album from autumn 1974. we got geoff leigh on reeds, cathy williams on keyboards and singing, g.f. fitz-gerald on guitars, jack monck on bass, and charles hayward on drums.

 

01 - peggy delaney's hothouse tinkers (listen directly)

02 - umbrella walk

03 - trees and tanks (listen directly)

04 - blues for henry

05 - blastest (listen directly)

second of all there is the quiet sun with bill maccormick on bass, phil manzanera on guitars, dave jarrett on keyboards and charles hayward on drums. the album mainstream was recorded and released in 1975, the recording dates of the bonustracks unfortunately are not mentioned.

06 - years of the quiet sun

07 - TROT

08 - R.F.D.

09 - R.F.D. part 1 (listen directly)

 

 

and third of all we got coil from their wonderful album love' secret domain. charles hayward is playing drums on two of their tracks, one of the many links between free jazz, roxy music and throbbing gristle.

 

10 - things happen

11 - love's secret domain (listen directly)

 

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the wilde flowers featuring brian hopper, hugh hopper, robert wyatt and kevin ayers, and even mike ratledge, richard sinclair and zobe: everything they recorded between 1965 and 1969; plus a little bit more

 

the wilde flowers throughout the years 1965 to 1969 of course were brian hopper, hugh hopper, robert wyatt, richard coughlan, richard sinclair and kevin ayers, plus assorted friends and relatives like mike ratledege and the people of zobe: the prototype and the nucleus of the canterbury sound and scene. here you can see, hear and download the 1994 compilation of their work, plus some bonustracks i found in my collection.

 

both the original 1994 voiceprint version and the 2015 floating world release (including a bonus cd with twelve tracks of sessions and sketches falsely credited to the wilde flowers) do for one reason or any other not mention the three veryvery wonderful tracks that were hidden waydowndeep in the canterburied sounds collection from 1998, but of course they are included here, as well as a jimi hendrix version of a wilde flowers tune (well; almost a hendrix tune, but no, but then again, yes, but) and a precursering track by the hopper brothers. i hope you will enjoy this alternative alternative version.

 

so let's go-go!

01 - impotence    
02 - those words they say    
03 - memories (listen directly)
04 - don't try to change me    
05 - parchman farm    
06 - almost grown (listen directly)   
07 - she's gone    
08 - slow walkin' talk (listen directly) 
09 - he's bad for you    
10 - it's what i feel (a certain kind)    
11 - memories (instrumental)    
12 - never leave me    
13 - time after time (listen directly)   
14 - just where i want    
15 - no game when you lose    
16 - impotence (listen directly)
17 - why do you care (with zobe)   
18 - the pieman cometh (with zobe)   
19 - summer spirit (with zobe)   
20 - she loves to hurt (listen directly)   
21 - the big show    
22 - memories

the bonustracks:

23 - slow walkin' talk (jimi hendrix on bass, and robert wyatt all other instruments; recorded in 1968)

 

 

 

24 - johnny b. goode (listen directly)

 

 

25 - thinking of you, baby

26 - you really got me (listen directly)

 

(24-26: the wilde flowers 1964; with kevin ayers of course)

 

 

27 - kansas city / rip it up (brian and hugh hopper, summer of 1962)

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four semi=obscure 7inchers i found in my record collection: gene williams from 1968, the jets from 1973, the jars from 1980, and the modernaires from 1981

yes, i was digging in the graveyard late at night, and look what i found: four seven-inch-vinyl-singles most of you have neverever seen or heard: and now you can find out if there is a reason (no, there's no real reason) to hunt them down on discogs or ebay. i transmuted the crickcracklesandpops of the annalocked vinyl to some godlike mp3s this afternoof, cramming and stuffing both sides of each into one long track (each, as well), so that you can listen to the aside and the beside almost seamlessly in one rutsch right here on this sight of the everning; and if you want to downlord the tracks to your heartdrive please be sure to save the pictures as well as there are no .zip or .rar files as you might have expectered.

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so let us start with the one and only known sevenincher (and their only known release as well) of the jets from 1973:

reportedly the jets were a one-off drunk-afternoon project created by ken elliott, kearon o'conner and mike craig to outglitter all that sweet stuff that slayed the charts in those days, and that's what they did. the a-side is a forgotten glam=gem, while the b-side is a coumpletely different sounding tongue-in-cheap-version of hatfield and the north or even van der graaf generator.

a: yeah!
b: rusty corinthian pillar

listen to the jets glammering it all out!

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next up next is gene williams, a southafrican singer and songwriter, who is living in germany since he liberated the black forest from the fascist scum in 1945. he has recorded and released a lot of schlagersoul records since the early sixties, sometimes using the wonderful pseudonym eugene william birkenstock.

 
this=here record is easily one of the best records he recorded allthroughout the years, with a dieter reith combo that never again rocked like this, and the lyrics are a wonderful mishmatch of german and british blabla. great.

a: my soul is black
b: rock'n roll in london town

listen to gene williams and the dieter reith combo

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not all too much is known about the jars; they were mik dow on guitars and vocals, armin hammer on bass guitar, gary nervo on farfisa, and marc time on drums. they released two singles in 1980 and then got lost in the process of growing old.

but this one=here is cool: a rather tame and nice a-side, followed by a version of psycho originally recorded by the sonics in 1965 in a hyped-up b-52s manner and then going completely over the top with the third track and stopping it appsoruptley before it starts getting a psychoboredelic jam. wunderbra!

a: start rite now
b: psycho / electric third rail

listen to the jars from 1980

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finally we got the modernaires from wales if i may guess. in the early eighties they released some records on the illuminated label, frickled around in some obscure bands like brodyr-y-fin and the likes, and they were never heard of again and lived happily until you died, as far as my ears are inwolfed. 

but this little sevenincher, though corenpleateley worned=out and cricracrockeling all the time, is a wonderful tribute to the groundbreaking work of the early soft machine. starting with a little missapt quotation of a kinks reminiscence the wilde flowers had been using in the midsixties, and ending all out in some poetic kevinayeresk freeform noise for the afternoon show down in middle earth. take some drugs, baby.

a: we did it again

b: and again

listen to the modernaires from 1981

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