Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (1969) [EAC-FLAC]

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
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Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon. Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 28-song double album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, blues, and garage rock to free jazz and avant-garde experimentalism. Atonal, sometimes singsong melodies; jagged, intricately constructed dual-guitar parts; stuttering, complicated rhythmic interaction all of these elements float out seemingly at random, often without completely interlocking, while Beefheart groans his surrealist poetry in a throaty Howlin' Wolf growl.
The disjointedness is perhaps partly unintentional reportedly, Beefheart's refusal to wear headphones while recording his vocals caused him to sing in time with studio reverberations, not the actual backing tracks -- but by all accounts, the music and arrangements were carefully scripted by the Captain (aided by John "Drumbo" French), which makes the results even more remarkable. As one might expect from music so complex and, to many ears, inaccessible, the influence of Trout Mask Replica was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point. However, its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless future experiments in rock surrealism, especially during the punk/new wave era.


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Tracklist:
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01. Frownland
02. The Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back
03. Dachau Blues
04. Ella Guru 2:26 Horns [Flesh] - Antennae Jimmy Semens
05. Hair Pie: Bake 1
06. Moonlight On Vermont
07. Pachuco Cadaver
08. Bills Corpse
09. Sweet Sweet Bulbs
10. Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish
11. China Pig Guitar - Doug Moon
12. My Human Gets Me Blues
13. Dali's Car
14. Hair Pie: Bake 2
15. Pena Lead Vocals - Antennae Jimmy Semens
16. Well
17. When Big Joan Sets Up
18. Fallin' Ditch
19. Sugar 'N Spikes
20. Ant Man Bee Horns [Simran], Oboe [Musette] - Captain Beefheart
21. Orange Claw Hammer
22. Wild Life
23. She's Too Much For My Mirror
24. Hobo Chang Ba
25. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)
26. Steal Softly Thru Snow
27. Old Fart At Play
28. Veteran's Day Poppy

*2013 Zappa Records | ZR20014

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