Brainville – Daevid Allen with Hugh Hopper & Pip Pyle ,Brainville Live In The UK 2004

Daevid Allen with Hugh Hopper & Pip Pyle – Brainville Live In The UK Released in 2004 as number 2 of the limited “Bananamoon Obscura“ series & mixed by Hugh Hopper. The band started out as a quartet with Kramer on keyboards/producer & released the Children’s Crusade album on Shimmy Disc in 1998. Brainville Live In The UK takes in everything from psychedelia, progrock & avant improvisation as you’d expect from founding members of Soft Machine, Gong, Henry Cow, Art Bears and apparently the name of the group was inspired by a Sun Ra tune. Daevid Allen with Hugh Hopper & Pip Pyle – Brainville Live In The UK Brainville was an English avant-garde supergroup fronted by Hugh Hopper (bass) and Daevid Allen (guitar) – both formerly in Soft Machine. The band started as a quartet with Pip Pyle (drums) and Kramer (bass, producer). They performed two concerts in one evening at NYC’s Knitting Factory in 1998, and days later went into Kramer’s Noise New Jersey studio and recorded The Children’s Crusade, released the following year on Kramer’s Shimmy-Disc label. Reduced to a trio, Brainville: Live in the UK, released as by “Daevid Allen with Hugh Hopper and Pip Pyle“, came out in 2004. The band, Allen, Hopper and Chris Cutler (drums) operating as the Brainville 3, played shows in 2005-2008. They released a live album, Trial by Headline in 2008. This line-up played at the Canterbury Festival in October, 2006 Tracklist 1 Fohat Digs Holes In Space 0:00 2 Who’s Afraid? 9:47 3 Flowers Gone 17:14 4 Shadow 27:29 5 Thinkin’ Thoughts 31:59 6 Hope For Happiness 34:27 7 Bullshit & Be 44:37 Notes On this disk: The most eccentric 3 piece jazz rock outfit of the Canterbury school. From rear cover: “This is an official release volume 2 in a series of 20 limited edition of 1000 copies“ but, despite the programmatic intentions, Bananamoon Obscura series ultimately stopped at volume 17. Made in England Credits Bass, Mixed By – Hugh Hopper Design – Toby Allen Drums – Pip Pyle Guitar, Voice – Daevid Allen Mastered By – Dallas Simpson Written-By – Brian Hopper (tracks: 6), Allen* (tracks: 1 to 5, 7), Smyth* (tracks: 1), Kramer (2) (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 7)