Lol Coxhill-Ear Of Beholder-Remastered-2CD-FLAC-2011-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Lol Coxhill
     Title   | Ear Of Beholder
     Genre   | Jazz                                 Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 94:51
     Label   | Esoteric Recordings                  Store   | 2011
     Catalog | ECLEC 22275                          Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 661 kbps                             Size    | 484.05 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     CD 1/2
     01. Lol Coxhill - Introduction                                  0:35
     02. Lol Coxhill - Hungerford                                    7:13
     03. Lol Coxhill - Deviation Dance                               3:26
     04. Lol Coxhill - Two Little Pigeons                            3:21
     05. Lol Coxhill - Don Alfonso                                   3:16
     06. Lol Coxhill - Open Piccadilly                               4:56
     07. Lol Coxhill - Feed Back                                     1:13
     08. Lol Coxhill - Vorblifa: Exit                                6:31
     09. Lol Coxhill - Insensatez                                    8:17
     10. Lol Coxhill - Conversation / Mango Walk                     1:40
     11. Lol Coxhill - Piccadilly With Goofs                         1:21
     CD 2/2
     01. Lol Coxhill - Rasa Moods                                   20:12
     02. Lol Coxhill - A Collective Improvisation                    2:43
     03. Lol Coxhill - I Am The Walrus                               3:53
     04. Lol Coxhill - The Rhythmic Hooter                           2:30
     05. Lol Coxhill - Lover Man                                     4:52
     06. Lol Coxhill - Zoological Fun                                1:04
     07. Lol Coxhill - Little Triple One Shot                        2:11
     08. Lol Coxhill - That's Why Darkies Were Born                  3:32
     09. Lol Coxhill - A Series Of Superbly Played Mellotron Codas   0:30
     10. The Coxhill Bedford Duo - Pretty Little Girl: Part One      2:34
         (Bonus Track)
     11. The Coxhill Bedford Duo - Pretty Little Girl: Part Two      2:32
         (Bonus Track)
     12. Will Dandy & The Dandylettes - Sonny Boy / Oh Mein Papa     2:58
         (Bonus Track)
     13. The Coxhill Bedford Duo - Mood (Bonus Track)                3:31
 Notes  
     Famous for his unaccompanied, unorthodox concerts and albums, Lol Coxhill
     had an immediately identifiable soprano and sopranino style. He was perhaps
     Steve Lacy's prime rival in getting odd sounds out of the soprano with his
     wrenching, twisting, quirky solos. While Coxhill was an accomplished
     saxophonist and could play conventional bebop, his winding, flailing
     soprano and sopranino lines made him stand out. He actually started playing
     more conservatively; Coxhill backed visiting American soul and blues
     vocalists in the 60s, playing behind Rufus Thomas, Lowell Fulson, and
     Champion Jack Dupree. He worked with pianist Steve Miller's group Delivery
     in 1969 and 1970, and played with them at the Berlin Music Festival. But
     his debut album, "Ear Of The Beholder", established widely diverse
     directions for Coxhill.
     The avant-garde is an odd beast. In the case of saxophonist/singer Lol
     Coxhill, that can range from the virtually unlistenable squawk of
     "Feedback" (which is exactly what the title says) to 30s music hall songs
     performed with keyboard player David Bedford. Cobbled together from live
     tapes and a few studio sessions, much of the backing comes from the Whole
     World, the Kevin Ayers backing band of which Coxhill was a member. But not
     all: "Rasa-Moods", a 20-minute spontaneous performance taped in Holland,
     brings in Dutch free musicians for something that travels through moods; "A
     Conversation With Children" is exactly that; and the cover of "I Am The
     Walrus" is sung by kids, to offer an odd, disquieting effect.
     Some pieces work better than others; the solo railway bridge improvisations
     of "Hungerford", punctuated by passing trains, is the perfect plunge into
     this record, while "The Rhythmic Hooter" is as close to something normal as
     it gets here, before descending into "That's Why Darkies Were Born", an
     ironic, deliberately anti-racist performance of an old vaudeville hit (as
     the notes emphasize). The standard "Lover Man" gets a working over, not
     always with the best result, while "Open Picadilly" is just that, recorded
     in the open in London's Picadilly.
     It's a challenging record, and as Coxhill admits at the very beginning (on
     'Introduction' he disarmingly discusses the disc's successes and failures),
     it doesn't all work. When it hits, it's excellent; when it doesn't,
     attention wanders all too easily. But for 1971, aimed at the rock audience
     via John Peel's Dandelion label, it was decidedly adventurous and daring -
     and still is.

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