Subject: Pete Brown And Piblokto! Mon Sep 25, 2017 8:56 pm
PETE BROWN & PIBLOKTO! - Thousands On A Raft [full album]
Tracks 1. Aeroplane Head Woman (Pete Brown, Jim Mullen) - 6:44 2. Station Song Platform Two (Pete Brown, Jim Mullen) - 3:43 3. Highland Song (Jim Mullen) - 17:04 4. If They Could Only See Me (Jim Mullen) - 12:07 5. Got A Letter From A Compu (Pete Brown, Jim Mullen) - 5:51 6. Thousands On A Raft (Pete Brown, Jim Mullen) - 7:07
Pete Brown is known chiefly as sometime lyricist for Cream, putting words into Jack Bruce's mouth on I Feel Free, White Room etc. After their split, he got his own outfit together, Pete Brown's Battered Ornaments, recording one album with them, A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark, before the rest of the band sacked him just before they played Hyde Park with the Stones (and, of course, King Crimson). Wasting no time, he formed Piblokto! releasing (deep breath) Things May Come & Things May Go, But the Art School Dance Goes on Forever within the year.
Later the same year, their second and final album, Thousands on a Raft, appeared, breaking Brown's run of ridiculously lengthily-titled albums. In case you're wondering, aside from the Titanic and Concorde, the sleeve depicts several slices of beans on toast floating in a pond (not sure how they managed that), the album title apparently being cockney (non-rhyming) slang for the aforementioned culinary delicacy. Several band members had changed in the months between the two records, the fresh blood making their presence felt immediately, as opener Aeroplane Head Woman's Cream-like tones assault your speakers.
After a piano ballad, Station Song Platform Two, the album goes completely bonkers, with the 17-minute semi-improvised Highland Song, followed on side two by If They Could Only See Me Now Parts I & II, which is almost as long. Mellotron (definitely Dave Thompson this time round) on Station Song Platform Two, with some pleasant background MkII strings. Planet-Mellotron
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Subject: Pete Brown & Piblokto! - Things May Come and Things May Go (...) (Full Album 1970) Mon Sep 25, 2017 8:58 pm
Pete Brown & Piblokto! - Things May Come and Things May Go (...) (Full Album 1970)
Tracklist: A1 Things May Come and Things May Go, But the Art School Dance Goes on for Ever 00:00 A2 High Flying Electric Bird 05:06 A3 Someone Like You 9:24 A4 I Walk for Charity, Run for Money 15:13 B1 Then I Must Go and Can I Keep 20:45 B2 My Love's Gone far Away 24:38 B3 Golden Country Kingdom 27:28 B4 Firesong 30:40 B5 Country Morning 36:42
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Subject: Pete Brown Story - Interview by Mark Powell - 2015 Mon Sep 25, 2017 9:57 pm
Pete Brown Story - Interview by Mark Powell - 2015
Pete Brown is perhaps best known for being lyricist on the classic songs co-written with Jack Bruce for both Cream and Jack's solo albums. In addition Pete is a respected performer in his own right, having performed with the band's Battered Ornaments and Piblokto! in the 70s and fronting his own band, The Interocetors.