Robert Wyatt - The End Of An Ear (1970) (1999)

Artist: Robert Wyatt
Title Of Album The End Of An Ear
Year f Release: 1970/1999
Label (Catalog#) : Columbia [493342 2]
Country: UK
Genre: Canterbury Scene, Avantgarde, Free Jazz
Quality: FLAC (*image+cue,log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 00:46:56
Full Size: 262mb(+3%)(covers)

The End of an Ear is the debut solo album by Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt.

The album was recorded in August 1970, while taking a break from Soft Machine (which he would eventually exit the following year). Containing mostly free jazz and experimental music, with no lyrics (only vocal experimentation by Wyatt), it is an unusual album. It includes Soft Machine's Elton Dean on saxophone and Caravan's David Sinclair on organ, who in 1971 would join Wyatt in the group Matching Mole. About half of the album is filled by a two-part cover of Gil Evans' "Las Vegas Tango". "To Carla, Marsha and Caroline (For Making Everything Beautifuller)" is based on the music of "Instant Pussy", a song Wyatt first recorded solo during a Soft Machine BBC session in late 1969 and eventually appeared, also in instrumental form, on the first Matching Mole album.

Tracks:
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1. Las Vegas Tango Part 1 (Repeat) (8:13)
2. To Mark Everywhere (2:26)
3. To Saintly Bridget (2:22)
4. To Oz Alian Daevid and Gilly (2:09)
5. To Nick Everyone (9:15)
6. To Caravan and Brother Jim (5:22)
7. To the Old World (Thank You for the Use of Your Body, Goodbye) (3:18)
8. To Carla Marsha and Caroline (For Making Everything Beautifuller) (2:47)
9. Las Vegas Tango Part 1 (11:07)

Personnel:
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Robert Wyatt / vocals, drums, piano, organ, producer
Mark Ellidge / piano
David Sinclair / organ
Marc Charig / cornet
Elton Dean / alto saxello
Neville Whitehead / bass
Cyril Ayers / assorted percussion

All thanks to original releaser