2 LP CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Magic MIRROR MAN Garage psych M-

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Deluxe 180 gram THICK/HEAVY 2-LP VINYL Limited Edition....

 CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

       THE MIRROR MAN SESSIONS         

UK - BMG Buddah - 74321 691741

Limited edition 2-Lp VINYL ((thick 180 gram vinyl)) from master tapes of the complete sessions originally released in part as MIRROR MAN in 1971.

This set may be out of print as was issued quite some time ago...comes with a nifty photo insert which explains in detail what is basically explained below.

A blues-obsessed desert rat, Captain Beefheart reimagined rock in the late '60s by breaking down its architecture and using its raw materials to fashion a loopy new paradigm. At its peak, the band percolated with spastic free-jazz rhythms, chicken-scratch guitars, and Beefheart spewing his dada-esque lyrical imagery through a baleful growl.

Mirror Man is the fifth album by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. It contains material which was recorded in 1967 for Buddah Records, and which was originally intended for release as part of an abandoned project entitled It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper. Much of the material from this project was subsequently re-recorded and released through a different label as Strictly Personal (1968). The tapes from the original sessions, however, remained under the care of Buddah, who took four of the unissued tunes and released them as Mirror Man in 1971.

The album is dominated by three long, blues-rooted jams featuring uncharacteristically sparse lyrical accompaniment from Beefheart, whose real name is Don van Vliet. A fourth tune, the eight-minute "Kandy Korn", is an earlier version of a track that appears on Strictly Personal. In 1999, Buddha Records issued an expanded version of the album entitled The Mirror Man Sessions, which features five additional tracks taken from the abandoned tapes. Three of the tracks they recorded—"Tarotplane", "25th Century Quaker", and "Mirror Man"—were long, psychedelic blues jams performed 'live in the studio' (in one take with no overdubs). These were intended to fill one of the set's two LPs. The band were also working on a number of other tracks, many of which would eventually be included on Strictly Personal (1968). These songs were characterized by their polyrhythmic structures and psychedelic themes, which marked a progression from the band's previous blues-rooted work on Safe as Milk.

The opening track, "Tarotplane", takes its title after the Robert Johnson song "Terraplane Blues", which was about a popular 1920s car. Throughout "Tarotplane"'s nineteen minutes, van Vliet quotes lines from Johnson's song as well as from various other blues tunes including Blind Willie Johnson's "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond", Son House's "Grinning in Your Face", and Willie Dixon's "Wang Dang Doodle". The song is built on a single two-chord blues riff, and also features an appearance by van Vliet on an Indian reed instrument called a shehnai, which was supposedly given to him by Ornette Coleman, and which he plays in a different key from the rest of the band.

Also on side one is an eight-minute "Kandy Korn", the second Magic Band tune to reference confectionery, following Safe as Milk's "Abba Zaba". A different, shorter version of this song appears as the closing track on Strictly Personal, where the production buries the later sections of the song under a profusion of backwards cymbals. Here, the track is heard without Krasnow's controversial production effects.

The second long 'live' blues jam, "25th Century Quaker", owes its surreal lyrics more to the psychedelic mood of the time, with its references to "blue cheese faces" and "eyes that flutter like a wide-open shutter." The lyrics are surrealistic and intentionally idiotic, a call to infantilism and acid trips in service of a musical theater of the absurd. Around the time the song was recorded the band had been wearing black Quaker coats on stage, and even began to play their live shows as The 25th Century Quakers.

The album closes with its fifteen-minute title track, which, like "Kandy Korn", was re-recorded for Strictly Personal, where it appears as "Son of Mirror Man – Mere Man". "Mirror Man" is one of the key tracks of Beefheart's entire career, and probably the catchiest tune Beefheart ever wrote, "Mirror Man" has an almost funky, hip-swaying groove.

1. "Tarotplane" – 19:08
2. "25th Century Quaker" – 9:50
3. "Mirror Man" – 15:46
4. "Kandy Korn" – 8:06
5. "Trust Us" (Take 6) – 7:14
6. "Safe as Milk" (Take 12) – 5:00
7. "Beatle Bones n' Smokin' Stones" – 3:11
8. "Moody Liz" (Take 8) – 4:32
9. "Gimme Dat Harp Boy" – 3:32

Captain Beefheart – vocal, harmonica, and shehnai
Jeff Cotton – guitar
John French – drums
Jerry Handley – bass
Alex St. Clair Snouffer – guitar

CONDITION: The cover is laminated VG++, bit of light wear, no problem, still looks great...no seam split, no bends, no writing...collection keeper condition...

The vinyl is all glossy all 4 sides....M- TOP shiny CLEAN.

                keeper copy!

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