Robyn Hitchcock "I Often Dream of Trains in New York” 2009 | TWILIGHTZONE

 Robyn Hitchcock "I Often Dream of Trains in New York" 2009

Recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City, I Often Dream of Trains in New York features Robyn Hitchcock and multi-instrumentalists Tim Keegan and Terry Edwards re-creating the willfully eccentric Englishman's seminal 1983 post-Soft Boys solo outing I Often Dream of Trains in its entirety...
...In typical "Hitchcockian" fashion, the singer enters the stage to the tinny crackle of a hand-held tape recorder playing "Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl," sits down at the piano, comically slows the pitch and begins playing the moody instrumental "Nocturne." What follows is a surprisingly deft and poignant retelling of his most beloved album, peppered with the usual Dada banter about tomatoes, microorganisms, and detectives. The two-disc set includes a DVD of the performance, as well as a surreal short film that features extended footage from the original video shoot for the title track backed by random bursts of disconnected music and dialogue. - Review by James Christopher Monger

I thought we had this classic before but Twilight just posted (again?) but perhaps I was thinking of the original release of this classic Hitchcock this is a live version and as were talking about Robyn at the Beefheart tribute here is a seminal quirky eccentric pasterpiece!