6CD NEWLY REMASTERED CLAMSHELL BOX SET ANTHOLOGY COLLECTING ALL OF THE RECORDINGS BY CREAM AND JACK BRUCE LYRICIST AND POET PETE BROWN WITH HIS BANDS THE BATTERED ORNAMENTS, PIBLOKTO!, GRAHAM BOND AND PETE BROWN and BROWN AND FRIENDS MADE BETWEEN 1968-1973.
FEATURING THE ALBUMS ‘A MEAL YOU CAN SHAKE HANDS WITH IN THE DARK’, ‘THINGS MAY COME AND THINGS MAY GO, BUT THE ART SCHOOL DANCE GOES ON FOREVER’, ‘THOUSANDS ON A RAFT’ AND ‘TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE’.
WITH 30 BONUS TRACKS, 11 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, DRAWN FROM SINGLES, BBC RADIO AND STUDIO SESSIONS AND A PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED PIBLOKTO! CONCERT FROM 1971.
INCLUDES THE RECORDINGS BY PETE BROWN AND FRIENDS FEATURING JEFF BECK AND JACK BRUCE.
REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL HARVEST AND CHAPTER ONE MASTER TAPES WITH AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK WITH A NEW ESSAY, PHOTOGRAPHS AND CUTTINGS.
Pete Brown first came to prominence as a performance poet and a lyricist for compositions by JACK BRUCE for CREAM and Jack’s solo work. In 1968 Pete formed the band THE BATTERED ORNAMENTS and recorded the album ‘A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark’, one of the first releases of EMI’s Harvest label in July 1969. Upon being dismissed by his band members on the eve of a performance supporting the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park that year, Pete formed the band PIBLOKTO! and began a song writing partnership with guitarist JIM MULLEN. The band’s blend of jazz and progressive influences was unique and they earned a loyal following on the underground live circuit. The band’s debut album ‘Things May Come and Things May Go, But the Art School Dance Goes On Forever’ was released in 1970 and enjoyed considerable success in France. The first Piblokto! single, ‘Living Life Backwards’ was also a hit in France and was later covered by JEFF BECK. ‘Thousands on a Raft’ was the last Piblokto! album and was once again a hit in France. Following concerts in France in October 1971, the band dissolved, and Pete formed BOND AND BROWN with Graham Bond. This group recorded the album ‘Two Heads Are Better Than One’ and the ‘Lost Tribe’ EP for the Chapter 1 label in 1972 before also breaking up at the end of that year. In 1973 Pete embarked on the BROWN AND FRIENDS project which saw him record material with a group including JACK BRUCE and JEFF BECK among their ranks.
Track Listing:
A Meal You Can Shake Hands With In The Dark
1-1 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – Dark Lady
1-2 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – The Old Man
1-3 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – Station Song
1-4 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – The Politician
1-5 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – Rainy Taxi Girl
1-6 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – Morning Call
1-7 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – Sandcastle
1-8 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – Travelling Blues (Or The New Used Jew's Dues Blues)
Bonus Tracks
1-9 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – Then I Must Go And Can I Keep
1-10 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – Sandcastle
1-11 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – Security Blues
1-12 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – The Week Looked Good On Paper
Things May Come And Things May Go, But The Art School Dance Goes On Forever
2-1 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Things May Come And Things May Go, But The Art School Dance Goes On Forever
2-2 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– High Flying Electric Bird
2-3 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Someone Like You
2-4 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Walk For Charity, Run For Money
2-5 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Then I Must Go And Can I Keep
2-6 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– My Love's Gone Far Away
2-7 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Golden Country Kingdom
2-8 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Firesong
2-9 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Country Morning
Bonus Tracks
2-10 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Living Life Backwards
2-11 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Can't Get Off The Planet
2-12 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Broken Magic
Thousands On A Raft
3-1 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Aeroplane Head Woman
3-2 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Station Song Platform Two
3-3 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Highland Song
3-4 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– If Only They Could See Me Now Parts One & Two
3-5 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Got A Letter From A Computer
3-6 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Thousands On A Raft
Bonus Tracks
3-7 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Flying Hero Sandwich
3-8 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– My Last Band
Studio & Radio Sessions 1969 - 1971
4-1 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Prophet
4-2 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Country Morning
4-3 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– High Sorrow
4-4 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Aeroplane Head Woman
4-5 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Dawn Of A Night Wasp
4-6 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Raining Pins And Needles
4-7 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Christmas Party In A Deserted Seaside Station (Station Song Platform Two)
4-8 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Aeroplane Head Woman
4-9 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Dawn Of A Night Wasp
4-10 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Got A Letter From A Computer
Live In Paris 23rd October 1971
5-1 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Aeroplane Head Woman
5-2 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Golden Country Kingdom
5-3 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Got A Letter From A Computer
5-4 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– The Politician
5-5 Pete Brown & Piblokto!– Milk Is Turning Sour In My Shoes
Two Heads Are Better Than One
6-1 Bond & Brown – Lost Tribe
6-2 Bond & Brown – Ig The Pig
6-3 Bond & Brown – Oobati
6-4 Bond & Brown – Amazing Grass
6-5 Bond & Brown – Scunthorpe Crabmeat Train Sideways Boogie Shuffle Stomp
6-6 Bond & Brown – C.F.D.T. (Colonel Fright's Dancing Terrapins)
6-7 Bond & Brown – Mass Debate
6-8 Bond & Brown – Looking For Time
Bonus Tracks
6-9 Bond & Brown – Macumbe
6-10 Bond & Brown – Milk Is Turning Sour In My Shoes
6-11 Pete Brown & Friends – Nights In Armour
6-12 Pete Brown & Friends – Barbed Wire Night Dress
6-13 Pete Brown & Friends – Night At Joan And Roy's
6-14 Pete Brown & Friends – She Used To Come And See Me When I Slept On The Floor
