| KEVIN AYERS (Ex-Soft Machine) OUT MARCH 18th
Kevin Ayers The Unfairground
Named by Mojo One Of The Top Records of 2007
Featuring Members of : Teenage Fanclub • The Ladybug Transistor • Candie Payne • Bridget St. John • Neutral Milk Hotel • Bill Wells • Phil Manzanera • Architecture in Helsinki • Robbie McIntosh • Hugh Hopper • Euros Childs
John Peel : “Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute that you could perform major eye surgery with it.”
Q: **** “His best”
The Times: **** “Inspired”
Uncut: **** “Genius”
Mojo: **** “Gorgeous”
The Sun: ****1/2 “Musical rollercoaster”
The Sunday Times: **** “The Unsung Hero of Psychedelia”
The founder of British psychedelia has returned with his strongest album ever accompanied and complimented by the musicians he inspired. The Unfairground, which is full of “bright, airy, deliciously skewed melodies (Simon Cosyns, The Sun), was recorded in Tucson Arizona; Brooklyn, New York, London and Glasgow.
Receiving four stars from The Times’ Steve Jerbert, the songs on The Unfairground are described by Andy Gill of Uncut as “replete with the languid charm that has been Ayers’ stock in trade throughout his performance career; whatever the situation, Ayers amenability shines through, a wave of warmth that can lighten the heaviest soul.”
Kevin Ayers is one of rock's oddest and most likable enigmas. There are few artists who qualify more than this recluse for music’s highest accolades. He is the bridge between the psychedelia and the new sounds and sensibilities of Roxy Music, Eno and David Bowie on whom he was a primary influence. Launching Soft Machine in 1966 with Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen and Mike Ratledge, Kevin Ayers has performed as a solo artist, working with noted musicians like Syd Barrett, Brian Eno, Mike Oldfield, Elton John, Lol Coxhill, Nico, Steve Hillage and John Cale.
Nick Kent recently cited Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett as “the two most important British artists of the late sixties”, noting that “they defined and influenced how every act from Bowie to Roxy presented themselves”. Lured from his retreat in the South of France, by a battalion of admirers both old and young on this, his first album in over fifteen years, is heralded by Mike Barnes of Mojo as “a vintage harvest that stands comparison to his best work.” Kevin Ayers shines on this album and summons a new voice and honesty in the performances that stand now as the strongest he has ever committed to plastic, producing a “wave of warmth that can lighten the heaviest soul” (Uncut)
Kevin Ayers is one of the most significant and influential musicians of his generation. He has a distinctly unique sensibility, making ordinary lyrical subjects seem extraordinary with his rich low vocals, inventive wordplay, and bemused, relaxed attitude that belies the life of a poet and a bacchanalian lothario. Welcome to The Unfairground.
Discography:
Joy Of A Toy Harvest 1969
Shooting At The Moon Harvest 1970
Whatevershebringswesing Harvest 1971
Bananamour Harvest 1973
Lady June’s Linguistic Leprosy Kevin Ayers & Brian Eno Virgin 1974
Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories Island 1974
June 1, 1974 Kevin Ayers, Brian Eno, John Cale and Nico Island 1974
Sweet Deceiver Island 1975
Yes We Have No Mañanas Harvest 1976
Rainbow Takeaway Harvest 1978
That's What You Get Babe Harvest 1980
Diamond Jack and the Queen of Pain Charly 1983
Deja-Vu Blau 1984
As Close As You Think Illuminated 1986
Falling Up Virgin 1988
Still Life With Guitar Fnac 1992
The Unfairground Gigantic Records 2008
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