Track Listing 1. Money Doesn't Make It 2. Prince of Sidewalk Scooter 3. False Teacher 4. Involve Me 5. Mullumbimby Mother 6. Submarine of Salt 7. Prof. Improbable's Preambule 8. Cunning Style Construct 9. Talkwind Upswerve 10. Wedding Music 11. Burn Your Money 12. Can't Buy Me Sex
| Details | | Producer: | Michael Clare | | Distributor: | City Hall | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Daevid Allen's University Of Errors: Daevid Allen (vocals, guitar); Jay Radford (guitar, saz); Josh Pollock (guitar); Erik Pearson (flute); Michael Clare (bass); Pat Thomas (drums, percussion). Recorded at Komotion, San Francisco, California on September 26 & 27, 1998. Best known as the impish leader of '70s psychedelic legends Gong, Daevid Allen has enjoyed a long, fruitful post-Gong artistic life, collaborating with everyone from Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper to New York art-noise maven Kramer. On MONEY DOESN'T MAKE IT, Allen leads a band of unknowns through a musical journey that touches on several aspects of his career. There's a pronounced post-punk edginess and rhythmic insistency to some tunes, with repetitive guitar riffs taking center stage. Elsewhere the Daevid of old emerges, scatting in Eastern modalities like a jazz guru over spacey, atmospheric backdrops of shimmering, heavily processed guitar. The blend of new and old shows that Allen can stay true to the psychedelic spirit he's well known for while still taking his studied kookiness someplace new.
Editorial Reviews ...berating bourgeois materialists and eco-transgressors....a welcome grittiness....harbors intriguing, dismembered atmospherics...manages to retain enough tonal ambiguity to keep the action interesting. The Wire (11/01/1999)
4 out of 5 - ...Allen has surrounded himself with young San Francisco musicians who also appear to be gifted students of the prog/art/space aesthetic from those psychedelic days of yore....like doing drugs with your high-school English teacher... Alternative Press (10/01/1999)
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