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PRICE:
$28.50
$28.50
IN STOCK
ARTIST
AYERS, KEVIN
TITLE
BBC Sessions 1970-1972
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
NO KIDDING
CATALOG #
NK 202203LP
NK 202203LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
2/25/2022
Of the several
Kevin Ayers
BBC collections that have been assembled, this is the most interesting, focusing as it does on the most interesting phase of his solo career. Taken from four sessions (three of them from 1970), it has a good cross section of some of the better songs from his early career, including "Lady Rachel", " Whatevershebringswesing", and a revamp of his
Soft Machine
numbers "We Did It Again" and "Why Are We Sleeping?". About half of this is pretty uncommon material: the verging-on-tipsy "Derby Day" and "You Say You Like My Hat" don't seem to have shown up on any studio releases (though the latter appears on a recording of a 1972 show,
Banana Follies
), "Gemini Child" only showed up as an outtake on the
Odd Ditties
collection, and "Butterfly Dance" was a 1970 single. Furthermore, there's a cover of "Falling in Love Again", the pop standard whose languor lends itself well to Ayers' low, crooning voice, and "Queen Thing", which is nothing more than a brief satire of "Wild Thing". You get to hear a few different lineups of musicians as well, with the
Whole World
(including
Mike Oldfield
) backing him on two of the 1970 sessions and the Soft Machine plus
David Beford
and
Lol Coxhill
playing on the earliest 1970 session. By contrast, the 1972 session has a nice skeletal feel, for the most part drumless, with low-key reverbed guitar and harmonica.
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