MAY DAY, MAY DAY!
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"Oh Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay!”!
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART RE-VISITED
So soniclovenoize over at Albums That Never Were has rebooted the Beefheart album 'It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper' (for the second time??) over there on May Morning [hence the May Day reference] and he says:
Happy May Day! To celebrate, here’s a long-overdue upgrade to one of my favorite albums that never were. This is a reconstruction of the unreleased 1968 double-album It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. Originally scrapped with half of the material re-recorded and infamously “psychedelicized” for the album Strictly Personal with the other half released as 1972’s Mirror Man, this reconstruction attempts to cull all the originally intended material for the double album that was supposed to be their sophomore release, more successfully bridging the gap between 1967’s Safe As Milk and 1969’s Trout Mask Replica. This upgraded version attempts to follow drummer John “Drumbo” French’s recollections of what Captain Beefheart actually intended with the album, organizing the composed material on Disc One and the improvised material on Disc Two. I have created unique edits of the improvised material in order to fit on a theoretical vinyl record, and have edited the composed songs in Disc One as per French’s notes on how they should have ended. Additionally, I have synced the isolated vocal from the Strictly Personal version of “On Tomorrow” with the instrumental Plain Brown Wrapper version, creating a 'finished' recording.
Sonic's notes are always worth a read and he makes his projects such labours of love and I have mentioned before that it was searching for Beefheart material that made me come across him all those years ago now.
Worth checking him and his site out always
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