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The EP consists of five delightfully strange tunes cast in a rich, textured production style that falls somewhere between Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica and Yes' Relayer. Spacey and haunting in a pleasant sort of way, Animals showed that Primus...
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Bad Seeds or Scotland's Black Grape? An album that channels the spirit of Captain Beefheart and Alex Harvey, or a band playing bluesy indie-rock with a man shouting almost incomprehensibly over the top? On a first listen to this Glaswegian group's...
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There are tonnes of releases that I'd want to buy on Record Store Day this year: Captain Beefheart, Duke Garwood...but I think the one I would actually run down the street for is the one sided etched seven-inch from Bat For Lashes, Strangelove. Twice nominated for a Mercury Music Prize, I think Natasha ...
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Victrola" which features a recording of the musician improvising an ethereal guitar drone over loops from Donna Summer's 1979 hit "Dim All The Lights". One of those ideas one wouldn't think would work, but the execution is wonderful. For further bizarre...
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The band gave up playing in the mid-‘70s when their father died. While their instruments gathered dust, their music nonetheless kept going. It slowly crept its way into the ears of the stranger strains of the music listening public: the Dr. Demento...
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His last two albums, 2009's Lay Your Burden Down and the next year's , show the breadth of his range within zydeco: Although we're guessing Buck's set Thursday may be aimed at the pint-sized Discovery Green dancers and thus heavy on children's album...
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It’s not difficult if you play it more than three times. After I had it on my iPod a week I could see exactly what he [Captain Beefheart] was trying to do.
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They're also honest in their appraisal that they were unhappy with the way their debut album turned out but admire it's uniqueness. The same goes for John "Dumbo" French and Bill "Zoot Horn Rollo" Harkleroad of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. Their...
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Having reanimated in 2004, the great post-punk survivors have continued to produce music as powerful as in their 80s heyday: a mix of Bo Diddley, Captain Beefheart and Neu, all filtered through the weird and wild Midlands mentality of Robert Lloyd. The...
About Captain Beefheart
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Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet on January 15, 1941) is an American musician and visual artist, best known by the pseudonym Captain Beefheart. His musical work was mainly conducted with a rotating assembly of musicians called The Magic Band, which was active from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. Van Vliet was chiefly a singer and harmonica... Full Article
