Prog Rock

[Serial_Apologist]

I have that Souster Nimbus CD, bought on the strength of first hearing his great flügelhorn & live electronics piece The Transistor Radio of St. Narcissus on 'Music In Our Time'. This recording on YT doesn't shine as much as that Radio 3 one, despite both being with John Wallace...

Well done Boilk! I have that MIOT broadcast on a cassette, as it happens!

[eighthobstruction]

You might enjoy Kevin Ayers....No Eggsplaination....great album....

I did in fact really mean : Whatevershebringswesing - Kevin Ayres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7AIUnRf4w

[Serial_Apologist]

I did in fact really mean : Whatevershebringswesing - Kevin Ayres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7AIUnRf4w

I thought so - "No Eggsplanation" was one track on that LP iirc.

[Conchis]

Kevin Ayers was a great talent - far too talented and quirky to be a pop star, though he certainly had the looks. His 'cred' was greatly enhanced when he made off with Richard Branson's first wife, who must have figured that life with the impecunious K.A. would be a lot more fun than being lumbered with some fake hippy tycoon.

Shooting At The Moon is probably his most adventurous work, with the experimental track 'Pisser Dans un Violin' breaking barriers as to what you could do on record.

Mike Oldfield was also part of his band at that time, playing both bass and guitar.

It's often forgotten that Ayers was an early member of Soft Machine but I don't think he would have been happy in that band long-term.

[eighthobstruction]

Kevin Ayers was a great talent - far too talented and quirky to be a pop star, though he certainly had the looks. His 'cred' was greatly enhanced when he made off with Richard Branson's first wife, who must have figured that life with the impecunious K.A. would be a lot more fun than being lumbered with some fake hippy tycoon.

Shooting At The Moon is probably his most adventurous work, with the experimental track 'Pisser Dans un Violin' breaking barriers as to what you could do on record.

Mike Oldfield was also part of his band at that time, playing both bass and guitar.

It's often forgotten that Ayers was an early member of Soft Machine but I don't think he would have been happy in that band long-term.

........one of those lucky people who looked good in Loons....

[teamsaint]

I did in fact really mean : Whatevershebringswesing - Kevin Ayres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7AIUnRf4w

I’m working my way through some of this stuff, and the Kevin Ayers / early Soft Machine I am particularly enjoying, thanks 8O

[eighthobstruction]

I’m working my way through some of this stuff, and the Kevin Ayers / early Soft Machine I am particularly enjoying, thanks 8O

....Oh ta....I'm going to buy KA CDs [never replaced vinyl copies] and indocrinate my one year ol'grandson in the car as we drift around the Dales....he's only just in a front pointed seat and taking notice of the world <jeesh how could he not....>

[Conchis]

....Oh ta....I'm going to buy KA CDs [never replaced vinyl copies] and indocrinate my one year ol'grandson in the car as we drift around the Dales....he's only just in a front pointed seat and taking notice of the world <jeesh how could he not....>

Not a bad collection for a reasonable outlay:

https://www.base.com/buy/product/kevin-ayers-original-album-series-music-cd/dgc-2564636205.htm

[teamsaint]

....Oh ta....I'm going to buy KA CDs [never replaced vinyl copies] and indocrinate my one year ol'grandson in the car as we drift around the Dales....he's only just in a front pointed seat and taking notice of the world <jeesh how could he not....>

Sounds an excellent plan. 3 pleasures in 1 Lucky you !!

( Mine would probably get XTC, Wire, and the accessible bits of Salisbury Plain, but the same principle....)

[eighthobstruction]

Not a bad collection for a reasonable outlay:

https://www.base.com/buy/product/kev...2564636205.htm

Gosh that is good....thanks....

[Bryn]

Gosh that is good....thanks....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Kevin-Ayers-Original-Album-Series-5-CD-Set-2014-Warner/1530274433?iid=173609687715&chn=ps

[eighthobstruction]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Kevin-Ayers...9687715&chn=ps

Haa story of my life Bing Bang Bong....gone....

[Serial_Apologist]

Haa story of my life Bing Bang Bong....gone....

Ayers Rock - no relation.

[teamsaint]

Here’s something for Prog fans to consider if they have any leftbover xmas vouchers.

https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2019/11/16/henry-cow-cow-box-redux/

Wouldn’t mind having that at all, but £80 is a bit above my prog budget.

[Serial_Apologist]

Here’s something for Prog fans to consider if they have any leftbover xmas vouchers.

https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2019/11/16/henry-cow-cow-box-redux/

Wouldn’t mind having that at all, but £80 is a bit above my prog budget.

It's a great shame there appears to be no recorded record of The Orkestra - formed at the CPGB-oganised Festival of the Left (if I remember the title correctly - maybe should check!) at Ally Pally in the summer of '77, by the teaming up of Henry Cow and the Mike Westbrook Brass Band. The experiment was short-lived; three years on however it would lead to Lindsay Cooper and Georgie Born joining the Westbrooks' project The Cortège - one of the great jazz frescoes of all time, up there with Carla Bley's Escalator at the very least, I would claim.