RARE 1971 CAPTAIN BEEFHEART MAGIC BAND MIRROR Blues

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                                 HOWLING BLUES PSYCH !                                                                      

RARE ORIGINAL SHATTERED GLASS GATEFOLD COVER!                                                                   

                 Captain Beefheart

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                    The Magic Band

                    " MIRROR MAN "

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\                                                                    USA - Buddah Records BDS 5077

RARE....ORIGINAL 1971 first pressing with the gimmix designed shattered glass effects gatefold cover ...

Mirror Man was the 1971 released fifth album by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. It contains material which was recorded in 1967 for Buddah Records, and which was originally intended for release as part of an abandoned project entitled It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper. Much of the material from this project was subsequently re-recorded and released through a different label as Strictly Personal (1968). The tapes from the original sessions, however, remained under the care of Buddah, who took four of the unissued tunes and released them as Mirror Man in 1971.

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The opening track, "Tarotplane", takes its title after the Robert Johnson song "Terraplane Blues", which was about a popular 1920s car. Throughout "Tarotplane"'s nineteen minutes, Van Vliet quotes lines from Johnson's song as well as from various other blues tunes including Blind Willie Johnson's "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond", Son House's "Grinning in Your Face", and Willie Dixon's "Wang Dang Doodle". The song is built on a single two-chord blues riff, and also features an appearance by Van Vliet on an Indian reed instrument called a shehnai, which was supposedly given to him by Ornette Coleman, and which he plays in a different key from the rest of the band.

Also on side one is an eight-minute "Kandy Korn", the second Magic Band tune to reference confectionery, following Safe as Milk's "Abba Zaba". A different, shorter version of this song appears as the closing track on Strictly Personal, where the production buries the later sections of the song under a profusion of backwards cymbals. Here, the track is heard without Strictly Personal producer Krasnow's controversial production effects.

The second long 'live' blues jam, "25th Century Quaker", owes its surreal lyrics more to the psychedelic mood of the time, with its references to "blue cheese faces" and "eyes that flutter like a wide-open shutter." Music historian Piero Scaruffi writes, in reference to both this song and "Kandy Korn", "[the lyrics] are surrealistic and intentionally idiotic, a call to infantilism and acid trips in service of a musical theater of the absurd." Around the time the song was recorded the band had been wearing black Quaker coats on stage, and even began to play their live shows as The 25th Century Quakers.

The album closes with its fifteen-minute title track, which, like "Kandy Korn", was re-recorded for Strictly Personal, where it appears as "Son of Mirror Man – Mere Man". Another review of the album cites "Mirror Man" as "one of the key tracks of Beefheart's entire career," adding, "Probably the catchiest tune Beefheart ever wrote, "Mirror Man" has an almost funky, hip-swaying groove

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"Kandy Korn" – 8:07 Side two
"25th Century Quaker" – 9:50
"Mirror Man" – 15:46

                                                   

CONDITION: The gimmix designed (shattered glass) gatefold cover is VG++ having some light shelf wear starting, nothing too bad at all, acceptable keeper in most any collection -- especially as hard as this first pressing is to find...most copies IF found have bends or tears in the 'glass' shards, this copy is 'nice' ...no split seams.

The vinyl is VERY clean and clear M- ...plays TOP LEVEL

       

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

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