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CAPT. BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND

Trout Mask Replica-Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band-Straight STS 1053 There are twenty-eight Selections on this 2-set record for your redoubtable delectation, all of them with equally crazed titles.

Zoot Horn Rollo, glass finger guitar, flute; Atennae Jimmy Semens, steel-appendage guitar; Captain Beefheart, bass clarinet tenor sax, vocal; The Mascara Snake, bass clarinet, vocal; Rockette Morton, bass, narration.

With this record Beefheart & Co. will hopefully rise from the underground cavern of complete oblivion to the more hospitable soil of relative obscurity. Thick with images, thick with rhythm innovations, the band lays a heavy batter on the curves of your consciousness turning the furthermost flexions of your widsom to goo (the record makes ya think that way).

Although at first blast the records, may sound a bit-well-strange, the sound for sound’s sake of acid reflections are identifiable at any level of perception, and the interplay and feeling for dramatics (i.e. changes of pitch, tempo) are the result of talent. Talent being a gift to the listener. The instrumental aspect is very accomplished and the extreme looseness seems to be the result of much rehearsal or just playin’ together for a long time.