KEVIN AYERS

Falling Up ESOTERIC

JM

Ayers’ long-unavailable 1988 LP remastered and reissued. Like many psych prog artists who came to the fore in the 60s and 70s, former Soft Machine man Kevin Ayers had a testing relationship with the 80s. He would subsequently disown solo LPs such as 1980’s That’s What You Get Babe and 1983’s Diamond Jack And The Queen Of Pain, works somewhat hamstrung by nascent digital tech, and which producers shaped according to their vision, not that of Ayers. Recorded in Madrid, Spain, with the great man commuting in from the remote farmhouse where he was living in Deia, Mallorca, Falling Up saw Ayers grasp the creative reins again after scoring a new deal with Virgin Records. Working closely with pal and former Patto/The Rutles guitar ace Peter ‘Ollie’ Halsall and gifted…

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