jackbarron
Chelsea, London
Trout Mask Replica was released by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band on June 16th 1969. That makes it 50 years old. I don't play the Frank Zappa produced album that often. But when I do, it remains overwhelming in parts. Here is what David Fricke of Rolling Stone thinks about it. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...LCnK7DuntLpBddmJ3Mv5ZYpGlgT_c_Ab4BRvR8P9kiU84
"The third studio album by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band — still sounds like a tomorrow that has not arrived," writes Fricke. "A music created at a crossroads of sound and language so far distant it continues to defy definitive summation and universal translation. Guitars jut out at improbably severe angles in ice-pick treble, like broken bones slicing through skin ...
"The singing is another primal logic altogether, an extreme in octaves and sustain that goes from hellhound bass to wracked falsetto, the pictorial cut-up frenzy of the lyrics run through archaic Delta-blues vernacular."
Lester Bangs said “Trout Mask stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes … constituting a genre unto itself.” That album “reinvented from the ground up rhythm, melody, harmonics, perhaps what our common narrow parameters have defined as music itself.”
That sounds about right. Didn't the Captain record his vocals without listening to the music through headphones, so he is always just a bit out of time?
Jack
"The third studio album by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band — still sounds like a tomorrow that has not arrived," writes Fricke. "A music created at a crossroads of sound and language so far distant it continues to defy definitive summation and universal translation. Guitars jut out at improbably severe angles in ice-pick treble, like broken bones slicing through skin ...
"The singing is another primal logic altogether, an extreme in octaves and sustain that goes from hellhound bass to wracked falsetto, the pictorial cut-up frenzy of the lyrics run through archaic Delta-blues vernacular."
Lester Bangs said “Trout Mask stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes … constituting a genre unto itself.” That album “reinvented from the ground up rhythm, melody, harmonics, perhaps what our common narrow parameters have defined as music itself.”
That sounds about right. Didn't the Captain record his vocals without listening to the music through headphones, so he is always just a bit out of time?
Jack
