Kevin Ayers -Joy of a Toy -MUSIC ON V LP Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. "Joy Of A Toy Continued"
02. "Town Feeling"
03. "The Clarietta Rag"
04. "Girl On A Swing"
05. "Song For Insane Times"
06. "Stop This Train (Again Doing It)"
07. "Eleanor's Cake (Which Ate Her)"
08. "The Lady Rachel"
09. "Oleh Oleh Bandu Bandong"
10. "All This Crazy Gift Of Time"

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NEW OFFICIAL GATEFOLD LP VINYL RELEASE FOR THE CLASSIC DEBUT ALBUM FROM THE LEGENDARY KEVIN AYERS. REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES & CUT AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS. WITH FULLY RESTORED ARTWORK. REVIEWS IN ALL LEADING MAGAZINES & COVERAGE ON RELEVANT WEBSITES & FANZINES. An original member of Soft Machine, Kevin Ayersd embarked on a solo career following a US tour with the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968. He was one of the first signings to EMIâ??s Progressive imprint Harvest and recorded his debut album in the Summer of 1969 at Abbey Road studios. â??Joy Of A Toyâ?? is a classic of psychedelic and progressive rock, featuring contributions from his former Soft Machine band mates, David Bedford and such wonderful songs as â??The Lady Rachelâ??, â??Stop This Train (Again Doing It)â??, â??Girl on a Swingâ?? and â??All This Crazy Gift of Timeâ??. This official gatefold LP vinyl edition fully restores the original LP artwork, has been remastered from the original Harvest master tapes and has been cut at Abbey Road studios. - 180GR. AUDIOPHILE VINYL

Joy of a Toy is the debut solo album of Kevin Ayers, a founding member of Soft Machine. It's whimsical and unique vision is a clear indication of how Soft Machine might have progressed under Ayers' tenure. He is accompanied on the LP by his Soft Machine colleagues Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge and Hugh Hopper. After a Soft Machine tour of the USA with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Ayers had decided to retire from the music business. Hendrix however, presented Ayers with an acoustic Gibson J-200 guitar on the promise that he continue his songwriting. Ayers repaired to a small London flat where he composed and arranged a whole LP which was then presented to Malcolm Jones' fledgling Harvest label where it was recorded by Peter Jenner for the then exorbitant sum of £4000. Joy features many of Ayers' most enduring songs from "The Lady Rachel" to "Girl on a Swing", the latter still, regularly covered by artists to this day like Candie Payne and The Ladybug Transistor. It was on Joy that Ayers developed his sonorous vocal delivery, an avant-garde song construction and an affection for bizarre instrumentation that would have a deep influence far into the 1970s and indeed the present day. For the recording of Syd Barrett's first solo album-The Madcap Laughs-Soft Machine was brought in to do overdubs for a few of Barrett's tracks. It was during this time, Barrett did guitar for Ayers on his track "Religious Experience", (later titled "Singing a Song in the Morning") this version wasn't released until the 2003 reissue of Joy.

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MOVLP1257

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