Aynsley Dunbar -Blue Whale -Byg Record LP Grooves.land/Playthek

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1.1 Willing To Fight

1.2 Willie The Pimp

2.1 It's Your Turn

2.2 Days

2.3 Going Home

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Das abenteuerliche 2. Album des legendÃ¤ren britischen Schlagzeugers steckt auch Jahrzehnte nach seiner Entstehung noch voller Ã?berraschungen. Der in Liverpool geborene Schlagzeuger Aynsley Dunbar war einer der angesehensten Musiker in der internationalen Rockszene der spÃ¤ten 60er Jahre. Seine Arbeit mit Vorreitern wie John Mayall, David Bowie, Lou Reed und Frank Zappa, mit dem er lange Zeit zusammenarbeitete, hat ihm einen Platz in der Geschichte gesichert. Aber Dunbar hat sich auch als Bandleader einen Namen gemacht. Sein DebÃ¼talbum "Doctor Dunbar's Prescription" war ein selbstbewusstes Set aus elektrischem Blues mit flotten Melodien und energiegeladenen Riffs. Das 1971 aufgenommene "Blue Whale" ist jedoch wesentlich experimenteller. In Wirklichkeit driftet Dunbar zu einer Mischung aus progressivem Rock und Pyschedelia ab, die nicht weit von Zappas surreal-komischer, bissig-sardonischer Welt entfernt ist. -

Recorded in 1971, Blue Whale is considerably more experimental, though. It is really a case of Dunbar drifting towards a hybrid of progressive rock and psychedelia not far removed from Zappa's surreally comic, bitingly sardonic world. And indeed the cover of his seminal 'Willie The Pimp' is one of the highlights of the set. Accompanied by excellent rhythm section players and soloists such as guitarists Ivan Zagni and Roger Sutton, bassist Peter Friedberg, pianist-organist Tommy Eyre, and vocalist Paul Williams, Dunbar hit a creative peak here that is emphatically maintained elsewhere on the album, which has mostly long pieces full of notable light and shade. "This newly re-mastered version of Blue Whale puts one of the highpoints of Aynsley Dunbar's illustrious career back under the spotlight. He was rightly inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2017 and there could be no more fitting example of his achievement than an album that sounds impressively fresh 50 years after it was made." Kevin Le Gendre

Recorded March & April 1970 - Marquee Studios London Photo: X Issued with stiff card 12" inlay, with Aynsley Dunbar biog one side and the other future BYG releases A BYG Production Executive Producer for this re-issue: Jean-Luc Young Manufactured in the E.U. Sticker on front cover: Offical BYG Album Newly remastered 180-gram vinyl Limited edtion

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BYG529015

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