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Vincent Crane - Close Your Eyes The Anthology 2CD
Released

Disc: 1
1. Breakthrough
2. Rock
3. Decision/Indecision
4. Breathless
5. Tomorrow Night
6. Gershatzer
7. Black Snake
8. Close Your Eyes
9. Banstead
10. Satan's Wheel
11. Nobody Else
12. Save Me
13. Can't Find A Reason
14. Don't Know What Went Wrong
15. Time Take My Life
16. Moods

Disc: 2

1. My Baby
2. Silver Meter
3. Fanfare/Fire Poem
4. Fire
5. Rest Cure
6. Wave Myself Goodbye
7. I'm Not Suprised
8. Firefighter
9. Crazy 'Bout My Baby
10. Taro Rota
11. Taro Rota
12. Throw Your Life Away
13. He Did It Again
14. Taking A Chance
15. Land Of Freedom
16. Time
17. Crane's Train Boogie
18. Sweet Sixteen
19. One Of Those Thinds
20. Because Of You
21. Solar Myth/Extro Boogie
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Ivor Cutler - An Elpee And Two Epees
Released 04/04/05

"An Elpee and Two Epees" compiles 2 early EPs , "Ivor Cutler of Y'Hup" ( Fontana 1959 ) & "Get Away From From The Wall" ( Decca 1961 ) and Ivor's first LP, "Who Tore Your Trousers ?" ( Decca 1961 ) . First time on CD for all 28 tracks.

Here's a Health For Simon
Size Nine and a Half
Pickle Your Knees
Mary's a Cow
Gravity Begins at Home
A Cowpuncher and a Bird
Boo Boo Bird
Originally released as "Ivor Cutler of Y'Hup" EP - Fontana TFE 17144 in 1959

Steady Job
The Obliging Fairy
First Love
Who Tore Your Trousers James?
Are You Alright Jack?
A Red Flower
Do You Ever Feel Lonely?
A Warning to the Flies
Grass Seed
The Market Place
A Tooth Song
Egg Meat
Muscular Tree
The Handymen
Sh Chi
Originally released as "Who Tore Your Trousers?" LP - Decca LK 4405 in 1961

Stick Out Your Chest
Turkish Bath Play
There's a Turtle in My Soup
Gruts For Tea
Get Away From the Wall
The Tureen
Originally released as "Get Away From the Wall" EP - Decca DFE 6677 in 1961

Ivor Cutler is perhaps one of the most original and unique talents to emerge on the British cultural scene in the latter part of the 20th century. A performer, poet, humorist and author, his work has transfixed successive generations during his near fifty year career. His admirers have included such luminaries as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, John Peel (for whose Radio One show Cutler had the accolade of recording over twenty sessions) and a succession of highly influential musicians such as Robert Wyatt.

Born in Glasgow on 15th January 1923, his parents were middle class orthodox Jews and the young Cutler was the victim of anti-Semitic teachers during his formative years. At the age of 15, Cutler renounced the Jewish faith and sought alternative spiritual enlightenment.

Ivor Cutler's first professional engagement as a performer took place at "The Blue Angel" in Islington in 1957. Although he later described the performance as "an unmitigated failure", this did not deter him from trying to further his career as a performer and writer. In 1958 he auditioned his work for BBC Radio which led to him making an appearance on the programme "Monday Night at Home" on the BBC Home Service.

His stories and songs (backed by his self accompanied Harmonium playing) proved popular with listeners and Cutler made regular appearances on "Monday Night at Home" between 1958 and 1963. This popularity led to Cutler's first foray into the world of making records when he recorded the EP "Ivor Cutler of Y'Hup" for Fontana records in 1959 (Y'Hup being Cutler's own fictionalized utopian self-sufficient island). The seven songs he recorded were an early indication of the direction his work would take over the next ten years. Although embryonic, the Cutler sense of surreal humour was very much evident.

Ivor Cutler's next record release came in 1961 when he signed to Decca records to record the album "Who Tore Your Trousers?", a fine collection of stories and songs that demonstrated just how far Cutler had taken his extraordinary talent over the eighteen months since his first vinyl release.

A further series of recordings were made for Decca which appeared as the EP "Get Away From the Wall" at the end of 1961, another fine set of recordings which included the superb "Gruts for Tea" and "The Tureen". At this time Cutler's work found favour with the new rising generation of British satirists, including Peter Cook, at whose Establishment Club Cutler made appearances.

The sixties also saw Cutler's work go into print for the first time and saw three of his poems included in Faber's Book of Scottish Verse. He came to a much wider public in 1967 when he was persuaded by fan John Lennon to appear as "Buster Bloodvessel" in the Beatles film "Magical Mystery Tour.

Now 81 years old (2005) , Ivor Cutler lives in a small second-floor flat in Parliament Hill Fields in London. Despite his frail health he staged a performance at London's Royal Festival Hall in February 2004 to great warmth and acclaim. A member of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society and the Noise Abatement Society, Cutler still admits to suffering from the neuroses that served as an inspiration to him over the years.

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