KEVIN AYERS Whatevershebringswesing RARE 1st Issue A1 `72 UK, Textured G/Fold NM

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	$		66

Artist: Kevin Ayers

Title: Whatevershebringswesing

Details: - Original UK 1972 original `Thick Vinyl` first Issue on the Green Harvest label with `Gramophone co ltd` rim text in lovely very first print-run ‘linen’ textured sleeve manufactured by Garrod & Lofthouse, nice psych/progressive rock rarity.  - Run out/Matrix side 1 SHVL 800 A1 1L/side 2 SHVL 800 B1 1P`!!.

Kevin Ayers was an English singer-songwriter and a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. Ayers was a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic band Soft Machine in the late 1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene

Whatevershebringswesing is his third solo album. Ii was what would become his most acclaimed album, accompanied by members of Gong and his previous backing band The Whole World. Praised by NME, Record Mirror and Rolling Stone, the album realized all the musical aspirations Ayers had harboured since the inception of Soft Machine. As with most Ayers albums, a collision of disparate styles confronts the listener but in this instance they work to extremely powerful effect. The title track with Mike Oldfield's guitar accompaniment and Robert Wyatt’s wracked harmonies would become a template for Ayers subsequent 70s output. The album opens with "There Is Loving/Among Us" accompanied by David Bedford’s dramatic orchestral arrangement. There follow the vignettes "Margaret" and "Oh My" where Ayers juxtaposes terse lyrics against measured backing. "Song From A Bottom of a Well" marries an explosive arrangement, again featuring Oldfield, to Ayers’ cryptic lyric "This is a song from the bottom of a well / There are things down here / I've got to try and tell". The title track is notable for Oldfield's extended bass solo at the beginning, while "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes", a flirtation with Ayers' love of early rock and roll, would become a staple of his live set for years to come, a song he would re-record twice that decade.

Many critics and fans have cited Whatevershebringswesing as their favourite Ayers album

Label: Harvest

Catalogue No: SHVL 800

Year: 1972

Country: UK

Sleeve: (EX++/NM) Lovely condition `Garrod & Lofthouse UK` Textured Gatefold sleeve, Top spine, minimal edgewear - lovely copy of this very prone to wear sleeve

Labels: Clean labels - just one or two visible spindle lines

Side 1

1. "There is Loving (Ayers)/Among Us (Bedford)/There is Loving (Ayers)" (7:22)
2. "Margaret" (3:20) (Ayers)
3. "Oh My" (2:59) (Ayers)
4. "Song from the Bottom of a Well" (4:37) (Ayers)

Side 2

1. "Whatevershebringswesing" (8:13) (Ayers)
2. "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes" (3:24) (Ayers)
3. "Champagne Cowboy Blues" (3:56) (Ayers)
4. "Lullabye" (2:14) (Ayers)

Trivia - Mike Oldfield, from Changeling: The Autobiography "At one of the recording sessions at Abbey Road, I turned up a bit early, as usual. When everyone was supposed to arrive, nobody came, so it was just me and the engineer, Peter Mew, sitting there in Studio Number Two, twiddling our thumbs and waiting. I said, 'Well, look, nobody's going to turn up, I'll make a track,' and so he said, 'All right then.' In about an hour and a half I made an entire track: all the overdubbing, the percussion, the guitar and bass - I did three harmonized electric guitars. I was really getting carried away, it was all a bit megalomaniacal. I got the entire staff of the studio in at one point to sing some lyrics I made up. I was having a ball and it sounded bloody good as well. Eventually, Kevin rolled in. I said, 'I've done it, I've done a track!' He was a bit put out, I think, that I had taken over his studio time, so my track was taken off the machine. [...] He did keep it as a backing track: he put some different words to it and it was put on the album, I think it's called 'Champagne Cowboy Blues.'"

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