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1. Sea Song for that inimitable voice, that searching instrumentation, we were writing avant-garde precisely at the time; a slow derivation, half solemn, half demonic, half elegiac, that's a lot in fact; an experiment with its distressed cry-phrasing, already a bad trip? In short, innovative and unique. 2. A Last Straw for the electric piano, the jazzy drums and its plaintive voice, the psychedelic research, that of the early PINK FLOYD, that dog voice, the neo-classical psychedelic-ambient derivation. 3. Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road follows with Mongezi's strident trumpets and aphrodisiac vocal ahs; The strangest thing is the sensation of having the recording backwards, reminiscent of a cassette of SHUMAN's death accidentally recorded this way, or more seriously, the BEATLES, ROLLING STONES, QUEEN, or future hard rock bands who would use this satanic process, according to religious fundamentalist associations; in short, singular, strange, grating.

4. Alifib with the organ, the breathless vocals, not for nothing that Nick took care of the man in his time; a long, slow, plaintive, hesitant crescendo leading to 5. Alife with the progression of dry drums, the dark, austere organ, and cinematic sound effects ahead of their time, a progressive experience with a noisy clarinet and its alto flirting with the wildly aggressive instrumental explorations of KING CRIMSON and 'Red'; A syncopated jazzy breath on ZAPPA's wanderings, transformed noises of SOFT MACHINE, a musical space where noise molded itself into an archaic musical mantra flirting with Canterbury's free jazz experimentation; a goose passes, that's saying something; Alfreda's voice tempers this debauchery of detuned notes a bit. 6. Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road ends this Crimsonian side with Mike Oldfield's aphrodisiac guitar, Fred on the violin adding austere sounds of Scotland, a fishing port atmosphere, starting here with a purely krautrock vocal mantra for the avant-garde experience of yesteryear. Today, this cult album may surprise the unaccustomed novice, but the fan will continue to venerate it.

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