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Kevin Ayers

Whatevershebringswesing (2024 Reissue)

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A founder member of SOFT MACHINE, Kevin embarked on a solo career in 1969, signing to EMI’s Harvest label, for whom he would record a series of wonderful and ...
Kevin Ayers

JOY OF A TOY (2023 reissue)

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An original member of Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers embarked on a solo career, following a US tour with the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968.
All This Crazy Gift Of Time - The Recordings 1969-1973

CD 1

Joy of a Toy
1 Joy of a Toy Continued
2 Town Feeling
3 The Clarietta Rag
4 Girl on a Swing
5 Song for Insane Times
6 Stop This Train (Again
Doing It)
7 Eleanor’s Cake (Which
Ate Her)
8 The Lady Rachel
9 Oleh Oleh Bandu
Bandong
10 All This Crazy Gift of
Time

Bonus tracks
11 Religious Experience
(feat. Syd Barrett)
12 Soon Soon Soon
13 Religious Experience
(Take 103)
14 Clarence in Wonderland
(BBC Session 10.02.1970)
15 Stop This Train (Again
Doing It) (BBC Session
10.02.1970)
16 Why Are We Sleeping?
(feat. Soft Machine) (BBC
Session 10.02.1970)
17 You Say You Like My Hat
(BBC Session 10.02.1970)
18 Singing a Song in the
Morning (single)

CD 2

Live at Hyde Park July
1970
Mixed by Stephen W
Tayler
1 Clarence in Wonderland
(live)
2 The Lady Rachel (live)
3 Rheinhardt and
Geraldine /Colores Para
Delores (live)
4 May I? (live)
5 Hat Song (live)
6 We Did it Again (live)
7 Why Are We Sleeping?
(live)

Bonus track
8 The Garden of Love (live
Queen Elizabeth Hall
1970)

CD 3

Shooting at the Moon
1 May I?
2 Rheinhardt and
Geraldine / Colores Para
Delores
3 Lunatics Lament
4 Pisser Dans un Violin
5 The Oyster and the
Flying Fish
6 Underwater
7 Clarence in Wonderland
8 Red Green and You Blue
9 Shooting at the Moon

Bonus tracks
10 Hat (recorded May
1970)
11 Gemini Child (recorded
June 1970)
12 Butterfly Dance (A-side
of single)
13 Puis Je? (B-side of
single)
14 Jolie Madame
(recorded November 1970)

CD 4

BBC Sessions
May 1970 – November 1971

1 Love Is (John Peel Concert
17.05 1970) (previously
unreleased)
2 We Did It Again (John Peel
Concert 17.05 1970)
(previously unreleased)
3 Gemini Child (BBC Session
20.05.1970)
4 Lady Rachel (BBC Session
20.05.1970)
5 Shooting at the Moon (BBC
Session 20.05.1970)
6 Derby Day (BBC Session
09.06.1970)
7 The Interview (BBC Session
09.06.1970)
8 We Did it Again / Murder in
the Air (BBC Session
09.06.1970)
9 Jolie Madame (with Bridget
St. John) (In Concert
31.01.1971)
10 The Spider and the Fly
(with Bridget St. John) (In
Concert 31.01.1971)
11 The Oyster and the Flying
Fish (with Bridget St. John)
(In Concert 31.01.1971)
12 Clarence in Wonderland
(feat. Gong) (BBC Session
09.11.1971)

CD 5

Whatevershebringswesing
1 There is Loving / Among
Us / There is Loving
2 Margaret
3 Oh My
4 Song from a Bottom of a
Well
5 Whatevershebringswesing
6 Stranger in Blue Suede
Shoes
7 Champagne Cowboy Blues
8 Lullaby

Bonus tracks
9 Watching the Sun Go Down
(recorded May 1971)
10 Whatevershebringswesing
(first version) (recorded May
1971)
11 Stars (B-side of single)
12 All This Crazy Gift of
Time (1972 remake)
13 The Lady Rachel (1972
remake)
14 Sad and Lonely Faces
(with David Bedford)
15 (Don’t Sing No More) Sad
Songs
16 Fake Mexican Tourist
Blues (recorded September
1972)

CD 6

BBC Sessions
January – May 1972

1 May I? (In Concert Jan
1972)
2 There is Loving / Among Us
/ There is Loving (In Concert
Jan 1972)
3 Margaret (In Concert Jan
1972)
4 Whatevershebringswesing
(In Concert Jan 1972)
5 Clarence in Wonderland (In
Concert Jan 1972)
6 Colores Para Delores (In
Concert Jan 1972)
7 Lady Rachel (In Concert
Jan 1972)
8 All This Crazy Gift of Time
(In Concert Jan 1972)
9 Why Are We Sleeping? (In
Concert Jan 1972)
10 The Oyster and the Flying
Fish (BBC session 17.05.1972)
11 Butterfly Dance (BBC
session 17.05.1972)
12 Whatevershebringswesing
(BBC session 17.05.1972)
13 Falling in Love Again (BBC
session 17.05.1972)
14 Queen Thing (BBC session
17.05.1972)

CD 7

BBC Sessions
September 1972 – April 1973
Banana Follies In Concert
September 1972

1 Introduction (In Concert
Sept. 1972)
2 (Don’t Sing No More) Sad
Songs (In Concert Sept.
1972)
3 Pretty Little Girl (In
Concert Sept. 1972)
4 Two Pigeons (In Concert
Sept. 1972)
5 Murder in the Air (In
Concert Sept. 1972)
6 ‘Orrible Orange (In
Concert Sept. 1972)
7 Whatevershebringswesing
(In Concert Sept. 1972)
8 Take Me to Tahiti (In
Concert Sept. 1972)
9 Oh! Wot a Dream (In
Concert Sept. 1972)
10 Marlene (In Concert
Sept. 1972)
11 Ball Bearing Blues (In
Concert Sept. 1972)
12 Fake Mexican Tourist
Blues (In Concert Sept.
1972)
13 Interview (In Concert
Sept. 1972)
14 You Say You Like My Hat
(In Concert Sept. 1972)
15 Falling in Love Again (In
Concert Sept. 1972)
16 The End (In Concert
Sept. 1972)
17 Interview (BBC session
11.04.1973)
18 Oh! Wot a Dream (BBC
session 11.04.1973)
19 Shouting in a Bucket
Blues (BBC session
11.04.1973)

CD 8

Bananamour
1 Don’t Let it Get You
Down
2 Shouting in a Bucket
Blues
3 When Your Parents Go to
Sleep
4 Interview
5 Internotional Anthem
6 Decadence
7 Oh! Wot a Dream
8 Hymn
9 Beware of the Dog

Bonus tracks
10 Connie on a Rubber
Band (B-side of single)
11 Caribbean Moon (A-side
of single)
12 Take Me to Tahiti (Bside
of single)
13 Decadence (early mix)
14 We Did it Again (live
Mile End 1972) (previously
unreleased)
15 Why Are We Sleeping?
(live Mile End 1972)
(previously unreleased)

CD 9

After the Show
Live at Queen Elizabeth
Hall May 1973
1 Banana Introduction (live
1973)
2 Stranger in Blue Suede
Shoes (live 1973)
3 Interview (live 1973)
4 Whatevershebringswesing
(live 1973)
5 Oh! Wot a Dream (live
1973)
6 Shouting in a Bucket Blues
(live 1973)
7 Caribbean Moon (live
1973)
8 Don’t Let it Get You Down
(live 1973)
9 We Did it Again (live 1973)
10 Why Are We Sleeping?
(live 1973)
11 After the Show (live
1973)

Blu-Ray

Video Vaults
1970-1973
1 Clarence in Wonderland
(Pop Deux ORTF France
31.03.1970)
2 Why Are We Sleeping?
(Pop Deux ORTF France
31.03.1970)
3 Oh My (BBC Old Grey
Whistle Test 04.04.1972)
4 May I? (BBC Old Grey
Whistle Test 04.04.1972)
5 Why Are We Sleeping?
(Pop Deux ORTF France
13.01.1973)
6 Stranger in Blue Suede
Shoes (Rockenstock ORTF
France 30.01.1973)
7 Why Are We Sleeping?
(Rockenstock ORTF France
30.01.1973)
8 Shouting in a Bucket
Blues (BBC Old Grey
Whistle Test 12.06.1973)
9 Oh! Wot a Dream (BBC
Old Grey Whistle Test
12.06.1973)
10 Caribbean Moon
(Promotional film 1973)

BONUS CONTENT
11 Oh My (take 2) (BBC
Old Grey Whistle Test
04.04.1972)
12 May I? (take 2) (BBC
Old Grey Whistle Test
04.04.1972)
13 Oh My (take 4) (BBC
Old Grey Whistle Test
04.04.1972)

 

Kevin Ayers

All This Crazy Gift Of Time - The Recordings 1969-1973

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  • limited remastered 9CD + Blu-Ray boxset with 68pp book (pre-order)

    Expected Release: 18th Oct 2024

    £105.99
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A deluxe 9 CD / 1 Blu-Ray 10-Inch by 10-Inch boxset of the complete recordings by Kevin Ayers brom 1969-973.

With 140 tracks newly remastered from the original master tapes. This boxed set includes all of the surviving BBC sessions and In Concert appearances recorded by Kevin during this period, including a previously unreleased John Peel concert from 1970 and other tracks featuring Soft Machine, Bridget St. John and Gong. Other highlights include the inclusion of a complete set recorded at a Hyde Park Free concert in 1970, newly mixed and restored by Stephen W Tayler, previously unreleased session out-takes and a segment from a 1972 concert and a performance at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1973.

Rounding off the set is a region free Blu-ray video disc which includes a series of live performances recorded for French television, along with two sessions for The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1972 and 1973 (with three previous unseen alternate performances from 1972) and the ‘Caribbean Moon’ promotional film.

The set is completed with a 68-page illustrated book with a new essay. Compiled with the full approval of Kevin Ayers’ estate and is a supreme tribute to a performer of whom John Peel once said; "Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it". This boxed set celebrates and confirms that talent.