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Aynsley Dunbar - Blue Whale

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Format: Vinyl
Label: CHARLY
Rel. Date: 03/24/2023
UPC: 5060767441152

Blue Whale
Artist: Aynsley Dunbar
Format: Vinyl
New: Available $29.98
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. Willing To Fight
2. Willie The Pimp
3. It's Your Turn
4. Days
5. Going Home

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Recorded in 1971, Blue Whale is considerably more experimental, though. It is really a case of Dunbar drifting towards a hybrid of progressive rock and psychedelia not far removed from Zappa's surreally comic, bitingly sardonic world. And indeed the cover of his seminal 'Willie The Pimp' is one of the highlights of the set. Accompanied by excellent rhythm section players and soloists such as guitarists Ivan Zagni and Roger Sutton, bassist Peter Friedberg, pianist-organist Tommy Eyre, and vocalist Paul Williams, Dunbar hit a creative peak here that is emphatically maintained elsewhere on the album, which has mostly long pieces full of notable light and shade. "This newly re-mastered version of Blue Whale puts one of the highpoints of Aynsley Dunbar's illustrious career back under the spotlight. He was rightly inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2017 and there could be no more fitting example of his achievement than an album that sounds impressively fresh 50 years after it was made." Kevin Le Gendre
        
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