Pete Brown & Piblokto! Thousands On A Raft 1970 UK, Progressive Rock

Pete Brown & Piblokto! - Thousands On A Raft 1970 (UK, Progressive Rock) Pete Brown (Pete Brown) from London, is known (to most music lovers) to participate (as a staff poet) in the group Cream. At the same time, this talented and eccentric personality is very interesting as well as a musician, responsible for the birth of several great records, it is worthy of inclusion in the “golden fund“ of British progressive blues, but little known. Back in the early 50's, he was known as a young but full of promise, the poet-hipster. His first collection of poems titled Let'em Roll Kafka came out in 1959. Around the same time, Pete Brown showed himself to be a good organizer and initiative. Thanks to his efforts, in the early 60's in London clubs “St. Pancras Town Hall“ and “Marquee“ are poetry readings entitled Jazz & Poetry, in which young British poets read poetry to a jazz accompaniment. As guests took part in them, and such well-known American poets, beatniks like Ginsberg and Corso. Accompanied there mostly young and unknown to anyone (then) band, including many future heroes of British progressive and blues scene, such as: Dick Heckstall-Smith, Jack Bruce, Vincent Crane, Peter Lemer, Phil Seamen, John McLaughlin, Ginger Baker . In those years, Pete Brown begins actively to comprehend the experience with the relationship in the team were not rosy. The conflict over leadership between Brown and Speddingom ended that Brown was fired from the band. With it came not the most noble way. He was informed of the “retired“ in just a few minutes before the band was to perform at London's Hyde Park in front of a crowd of thousands at the opening act for The Rolling Stones, and instead there is singing Spedding. This performance, in fact, was to be the “high point“ for Pete Brown, and suddenly this! And besides, the group (now called The Battered Ornaments), evicted their leader, issued a “catch up“ with the single echidna called Good Bye! We Love You Madly!. But in the meantime, Pete Brown organized a new group Pete Brown & Piblokto! Brown's new colleagues were: Scottish guitarist Jim Mullen (Jim Mullen), bassist Roger Bunn (Roger Bunn), and keyboardist / saxophonist Dave Thompson (Dave Thompson). The group came in and drummer The Battered Ornaments Bob Tate (Bob Tait). Soon, the band released a debut album Things May Come And Things May Go But The Art School Dance Goes On Forever. Stylistically, it is the same okolodzhazovy progressive blues. For 1969, this record seems to be very innovative and non-profit work, but it is still a little bit easier and harder Brown's previous work. On the inside cover of the album (dedicated, by the way, his fellow musicians, he graduated from art school) adorned with drawings, made by Keith Richards, Syd Barrett, John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker ... and many others. In the same year released another album Thousands On A Raft, even closer to the progressive, more complex and interesting. Compositions became longer, up to 17 minutes, activated the pop-up previously only sporadically mellotron, decorations appeared in the form of a saxophone, and the material was much more varied and subtly arranged. The album sounds even more expressive and dramatic. Both of these records have not been evaluated by contemporaries, touring and stale commercially ineffective, and the team is very fast (1971), was dissolved. Jim Mullen subsequently collaborated with artists such as Brian Auger, Vinegar Joe, Georgie Fame, Chris Rea, Average White Band, Kokomo, and also was one of the founders of the fusion band Morrissey-Mullen Band. Bob Tate worked with Vinegar Joe, Dick Heckstall-Smith and Gong ... Tracks: 01. Aeroplane Head Woman (Jim Mullen / Pete Brown) - 0:00 02. Station Song Platform Two (Pete Brown / Jim Mullen) - 6:41 03. Highland Song (Jim Mullen) - 10:22 04. If They Could Only See Me Now Parts One And Two (Jim Mullen) - 27:26 05. Got A Letter From A Computer (Pete Brown / Jim Mullen) - 39:31 06. Thousands On A Raft (Pete Brown / Jim Mullen) - 45:21 Bonuses: 07. Can't Get Off The Planet - 52:30 08. Broken Magic - 58:35 Personnel: - Pete Brown - vocals, percussion - Jim Mullen - guitar, bass (02), percussion - Dave Thompson - keyboards, soprano saxophone, mellotron (02), percussion - Steve Glover - bass, percussion - Bob Tait - drums, percussion