Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica 2LP Canadian reissue 1977 VERY GOOD

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Captain Beefheart
& His Magic Band

Trout Mask Replica

Warner Bros Records 2MS_2027 2LP 1977 (Canada)

Trout Mask Replica is the third album by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, released in June 1969. Produced by Beefheart's friend and former schoolmate Frank Zappa, it was originally released as a double album on Zappa's Straight Records label. Combining elements of R&B, garage rock, blues, avant-garde, free jazz and other genres of American music, the album is regarded as an important work of experimental music.

Most of Trout Mask Replica was recorded in March 1969 at Whitney Studios in Los Angeles, California. The lineup of the Magic Band at this time consisted of Bill Harkleroad and Jeff Cotton on guitar, Mark Boston on bass guitar, Victor Hayden on bass clarinet, and John French on drums and percussion. Beefheart played several brass and woodwind instruments (including saxophone, musette, and hunting horn) and contributed most of the vocal parts, while Zappa and members of the band provided occasional vocals and narration. The well-rehearsed Magic Band recorded all instrumental tracks for Trout Mask Replica in a single six-hour recording session; Van Vliet's vocal and horn tracks were laid down over the next few days. Upon release in the US, Trout Mask Replica sold poorly and failed to chart. It was more successful in the UK, where it spent a week at No. 21.

Today, Trout Mask Replica is widely regarded as the masterpiece of Van Vliet's musical career, as well as one of the most influential rock albums ever recorded. The album's highly unconventional musical style, which includes polyrhythm, multi-octave vocals, and atonality, continues to polarize audiences, and has contributed to its reputation as one of the most challenging recordings in the 20th century musical canon. It ranked No. 60 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list (2012), and appears on many similar lists. AllMusic's Steve Huey wrote that "its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless future experiments in rock surrealism, especially during the punk/new wave era."

Tracklist
A1 Frownland 1:40
A2 The Dust Blows Forward 'N' The Dust Blows Back 1:53
A3 Dachau Blues 2:22
A4 Ella Guru  Effects [Flesh] – Antennae Jimmy Semens  2:26
A5 Hair Pie: Bake 1 4:58
A6 Moonlight On Vermont 3:55
B1 Pachuco Cadaver 4:37
B2 Bills Corpse 1:47
B3 Sweet Sweet Bulbs 2:17
B4 Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish  Horns [Simran Horn], Musette – Captain Beefheart  2:25
B5 China Pig  Guitar – Doug Moon  3:56
B6 My Human Gets Me Blues 2:42
B7 Dali's Car 1:25
C1 Hair Pie: Bake 2 2:23
C2 Pena  Lead Vocals – Antennae Jimmy Semens  2:31
C3 Well 2:05
C4 When Big Joan Sets Up 5:19
C5 Fallin' Ditch 2:03
C6 Sugar 'N' Spikes 2:29
C7 Ant Man Bee 3:55
D1 Orange Claw Hammer 3:35
D2 Wild Life 3:07
D3 She's Too Much For My Mirror 1:42
D4 Hobo Chang Ba 2:01
D5 The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) 2:04
D6 Steal Softly Thru Snow 2:13
D7 Old Fart At Play 1:54
D8 Veteran's Day Poppy 4:30

Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Manufactured By – WEA Music Of Canada, Ltd.
Distributed By – WEA Music Of Canada, Ltd.
Pressed By – Quality Records Limited

Arranged By, Written-By, Lyrics By – Don Van Vliet
Bass Clarinet, Vocals – The Mascara Snake
Bass, Narrator – Rockette Morton
Design [Album Design] – Cal Schenkel
Drums [Uncredited] – Drumbo
Engineer, Technician [Special Electronic Modifications] – Dick Kunc
Photography By – Cal Schenkel, Ed Caraeff
Producer – Frank Zappa
Slide Guitar [Glass Finger], Flute – Zoot Horn Rollo
Slide Guitar [Steel-appendage] – Antennae Jimmy Semens
Vocals, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Captain Beefheart

Gatefold cover. Images and text slightly blurry.

"Contains 2 Records
Contient 2 Disques" in white on cover.

Manufactured and distributed by - WEA Music Of Canada, Ltd./Fabrique et distribue par-WEA Musique Du Canada, Ltee.

2 X Vinyl is VERY GOOD, Side 4 has some visible marks with minimal effect on play, in plastic inner sleeves in a gatefold picture sleeve in GOOD condition (ring and edge wear)

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