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Ivor Cutler
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Ivor Cutler's very earliest work was very hard to find in the decades after it was first issued. This compilation does an exemplary job of restoring it to wide availability, its 28 tracks combining everything from the 1961 LP Who Tore Your Trousers?, the 1959 EP Ivor Cutler of Y'Hup, and the 1961 EP Get Away from the Wall. Cutler's material would become more outrageously surreal on later recordings, perhaps, but these efforts are very much in step with the style for which he's beloved. With almost equal doses of spoken word and warbly singing with harmonium, these pieces take gentle pokes that subtly transform everyday experiences into something nearly surreal. It might be too gentle and subtle for those who like their comedy brash, or for Americans not attuned to his very British brand of humor. Still, it's easy to hear elements that the likes of the Bonzo Dog Band and Monty Python would take to more vivid (and more internationally accessible) extremes. And if it's not often laugh-out-loud funny, or too musically diverse, there's plenty of weird wordplay to generate amusement, such as his ode to a "Muscular Tree" and "Stick Out Your Chest," whose exhortative lyrics are totally undercut by Cutler's knowingly silly tone. - AMG
Ivor Cutler plays "11 musical instruments including the harmonium, guitar, recorder, bamboo flute and 6 pianos". He has written 38 songs that might be described as a combination of Franz Kafka and the Goons.
Ivor Cutler Of Y'Hup (1959)
01 Here's A Health To Simon 1:30
02 Size 9½ 2:57
03 Pickle Your Knees 2:02
04 Mary Is A Cow 1:30
05 Gravity Begins At Home 2:22
06 A Cowpuncher And A Bird 1:21
07 The Boo-Boo Bird 3:54
Who Tore Your Trousers? (1961)
08 Steady Job 3:15
09 The Obliging Fairy 0:53
10 First Love 4:48
11 Who Tore Your Trousers James 2:23
12 Are You Alright Jack 3:55
13 A Red Flower 2:28
14 Do You Ever Feel Lonely 1:14
15 A Warning To The Flies 1:28
16 Grass Seed 2:24
17 The Market Place 2:52
18 A Tooth Song 1:29
19 Egg Meat 3:24
20 Muscular Tree 2:28
21 The Handymen 4:01
22 Sh Chi 2:51
Get Away From The Wall (1961)
23 Stick Out Your Chest 0:45
24 Turkish Bath Play 3:49
25 There's A Turtle In My Soup 3:11
26 Gruts For Tea 2:34
27 Get Away From The Wall 2:00
28 The Tureen 2:33
Ivor Cutler
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Ivor Cutler's final album for Virgin Records, 1976's Jammy Smears,
is one of the best releases of his career. Kicking off with the jazzy
piano tune "Bicarbonate of Chicken," a funny and bizarre dialogue with a
waiter, the album runs through 31 brief songs, poems, and surreal short
stories like the hilarious "Big Jim." About evenly split between
recitations and songs like the catchy shaggy dog story "Barabadabada"
and the oddly philosophical "Everybody Got," Jammy Smears features more of Cutler's piano playing than any of his albums other than 1967's jazz trio album Ludo. His trademark droning harmonium makes only a small handful of appearances. As on its predecessor, 1975's Velvet Donkey, Cutler's friend Phyllis April King reads five of her own poems and a short story, "The Wasted Call," on Jammy Smears, all of them based on life in and around a cottage in Dorset. Because most of Cutler's
pieces this time out share the rural theme, with an episode of his
ongoing Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Volume Two centered around a
family walk in the country and several poems and stories about birds,
bugs, and other wildlife, King's contributions are much more smoothly
integrated with the whole than they had been on Velvet Donkey. Cutler's usual morbid obsessions crop up infrequently, making Jammy Smears one of his sunniest and most playful albums.
01 Bicarbonate of Chicken 0:50
02 Filcombe Cottage, Dorset 0:22
03 Squeeze Bees 2:24
04 The Turn 0:30
05 Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Volume Two, Episode Eleven 3:54
06 A Linnett 0:25
07 Jumping and Pecking 0:44
08 The Other Half 0:46
09 Beautiful Cosmos 2:10
10 The Path 0:40
11 Barabadabada 1:02
12 Big Jim 3:01
13 In the Chestnut Tree 1:29
14 Dust 1:02
15 Rubber Toy 2:03
16 Unexpected Join 0:08
17 A Wooden Tree 0:12
18 When I Stand on an Open Cart 2:13
19 High Is the Wind 0:38
20 The Surly Buddy 1:26
21 Pearly-Winged Fly 4:16
22 Garden Path at Filcombe 0:41
23 Paddington Town 0:40
24 Cage of Small Birds 1:34
25 Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2 EP.6 0:18
26 Irk 3:09
27 Lemon Flower 0:23
28 Red Admiral 1:02
29 Everybody Got 0:47
30 The Wasted Call 2:08
31 Wasted Call 4:26
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Ivor Cutler was a Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions recorded for John Peel's influential radio programme, and later for Andy Kershaw's programme. He appeared in the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film in 1967 and on Neil Innes' television programmes. Cutler also wrote books for children and adults and was a teacher at A. S. Neill's Summerhill School and for 30 years in inner-city schools in London. He told Andy Kershaw on his radio show that he also gave private poetry lessons to individuals. Source: Wikipedia
01 If Your Breasts 0:09
02 I Got No Common Sense 0:34
03 Useful Cat 0:27 (King)
04 Oho My Eyes 1:30
05 The Dirty Dinner 3:34
06 Yellow Fly 1:37
07 Mother's Love 0:25 (King)
08 The Meadows Go 1:11
09 Phonic Poem 0:47
10 Life in a Scotch Sitting Room Vol. 2, Ep. 2 3:40
11 Birdswing 0:49
12 Nobody Knows 1:54
13 Uneventful Day 0:31 (King)
14 Little Black Buzzer 1:53
15 Bread and Butter 0:42
Side two
16 A Nuance 0:35
17 Go and Sit upon the Grass 2:09
18 The Even Keel 0:37
19 Pearly Gleam 1:54
20 The Best Thing 0:22 (King)
21 Life in a Scotch Sitting Room Vol. 2, Ep. 7 3:34
22 Once upon a Time 0:49
23 There's Got to Be Something 2:01
24 The Purposeful Culinary Implements 1:10
25 Gee, Amn't I Lucky 1:34
26 The Curse 2:07
27 I Think Very Deeply 0:54
28 I, Slowly 0:23 (King)
29 Sleepy Old Snake 2:33
30 Titchy Digits 0:32
31 The Stranger 6:00 (King)
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Ivor Cutler
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01 Steady Job
02 The Obliging Fairy
03 First Love
04 Who Tore Your Trousers James
05 Are You Alright Jack
06 A Red Flower
07 Do You Ever Feel Lonely
08 A Warning To The Flies
09 Grass Seed
10 The Market Place
11 A Tooth Song
12 Egg Meat
13 Muscular Tree
14 The Handymen
15 Sh Chi
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Ivor Cutler's very earliest work was very hard to find in the decades after it was first issued. This compilation does an exemplary job of restoring it to wide availability, its 28 tracks combining everything from the 1961 LP Who Tore Your Trousers?, the 1959 EP Ivor Cutler of Y'Hup, and the 1961 EP Get Away from the Wall. Cutler's material would become more outrageously surreal on later recordings, perhaps, but these efforts are very much in step with the style for which he's beloved. With almost equal doses of spoken word and warbly singing with harmonium, these pieces take gentle pokes that subtly transform everyday experiences into something nearly surreal. It might be too gentle and subtle for those who like their comedy brash, or for Americans not attuned to his very British brand of humor. Still, it's easy to hear elements that the likes of the Bonzo Dog Band and Monty Python would take to more vivid (and more internationally accessible) extremes. And if it's not often laugh-out-loud funny, or too musically diverse, there's plenty of weird wordplay to generate amusement, such as his ode to a "Muscular Tree" and "Stick Out Your Chest," whose exhortative lyrics are totally undercut by Cutler's knowingly silly tone. - AMG
Ivor Cutler Of Y'Hup (1959)
