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Artist:	WYATT, ROBERT
Title:	The End Of An Ear
Label:	COLUMBIA (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	COL 4933422CD

Repressed. Budget line reissue of the first (pre-accident) Robert Wyatt solo album, first issued in 1970 by CBS. Not part of the recent Thirsty Ear reissue series which includes the classics that followed this one, Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (1974) & Rock Bottom (1975). At this point Wyatt was in between work with the Soft Machine and Matching Mole and was aided by the likes of Elton Dean (alto saxello), David Sinclair (organ), Mark Charig (cornet), Neville Whitehead (bass), Mark Ellidge (piano) & Cyril Ayers (percussion). Wyatt himself on drums, mouth, piano, organ. The album opens & closes with a baffling space-jazz "cover" of Gil Evans' "Las Vegas Tango" that is quite deep, and proceeds through various settings of psychedelic jazz, Gong-like jamming and free-style improv balladry. Very out, very good.

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