This quintessential British nutter's c.v. (which includes stints as Pink Floyd's arranger on Atom Heart Mother and Roger Waters' collaborator on "Music From The Body") is likely well known to most MS followers and his inimitably screwy and instantly identifiable sonic imprint is writ large across this, his second proper LP (third if you count his uncharacteristically abstract library music release "Electrosound"). Second only to his later "Right Through" in the mindfuck sweepstakes, this delirious masterstroke weds blithering Python-esque bulldada to wry and impishly capering cod classical arrangements, queasy and wheezy electronic themes (a few straight out out of the Wendy Carlos cookbook) and elegant little acoustic guitar etudes, with bits and bobs of music hall, ragtime, musique concret and sundry other unlikely genres tossed in for maximal head scratching potential.
Mutant Sounds
Music From The Body
As He Stands [1973]
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Farrell Dyde/Kolb: Les Reves D'une Femme :
Part Two. A woman (Beverly Shurley) finds herself again amidst nightime visitations featuring: Lisa Nicks (the sensuous self), Tami Corley (adolescent), Norma Cullick (little girl). Music by Bartok, Ron Geesin and Barbara Kolb (Solitaire). (less)