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 Velvet Donkey - Ivor Cutler
 Velvet Donkey - Ivor Cutler ... Breasts2 I Got No Common Sense 3 Useful Cat 4 Oho My Eyes 5 Dirty Dinner 6 Yellow Fly 7 Mother's Love 8 Meadows Go 9 Phonic Poem 10 Live In A Scotch Sitting Room 11 Birdswing 12 Nobody Knows 13 Uneventful Day 14 Little Black Buzzer 15 Bread And Butter 16 Nuance 17 Go And Sit Upon The Grass 18 Even Keel 19 Pearly Gleam 20 Best Thing 21 Life In A Scotch Sitting Room 22 Once Upon A Time 23 There's Got To Be Something 24 Purposeful Culinary Implements 25 Gee Amn't I Lucky 26 Curse 27 I Think Very Deeply 28 I Slowly 29 Sleepy Old Snake 30 Titchy Digits 31 Strange Newest Review: ... of length is the ultimate 6 minute 'The Stranger". The tracks are mainly a mixture of poetic orations, short stories and ... more ... conversational monologues. Ivor Cutler mostly speaks the words but does sort of sing some of the poems whilst playing on his harmonium. Performing alongside Cutler is Fred Frith who plays viola on several tracks and Phyllis King who reads six of her own poems and short stories. King is also responsible for the album cover design. Cutler's poems and songs are famous for their eccentrically imaginative and observant lyrics. His subject matter owes a lot to a harsh childhood upbringing but his bleak descriptions of p...more |
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Velvet Donkey - Ivor Cutler: The Curious Ivor Cutler (809 words)
by - written on 27/03/09 (Very useful, 391 readings)
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I have vague recollections from early childhood of hearing Ivor Cutler. My avant-garde parents would often position my pram, as I was nodding off to sleep, near the radio whenever the John Peel show (God rest his soul) was broadcast, and in between sessions of 'Stiff Little Fingers' and 'The Fall', Peel would insert a calming Cutler interlude. Ivor Cutler was a Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist who was renowned for his own unique singer songwriting style of surrealist folk poetry and music warmly expressed in his dulcet baritone voice and delivered in his distinctive Scottish accent. He rose to prominence in the 1960s performing on various TV and radio programmes ... Read the complete review
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