Sprawling Free-Rock of the highest order here from what became the ‘Mirror Man’ album. The music is Delta Blues infected by Free Jazz and the Avant-Garde; something the crew would delve into even further on their seminal ‘Trout Mask Replica’ album and beyond. Recorded in 1967, released in 1971, ‘Mirror Man’ was a mop up of some of the tracks from sessions for the shelved album ‘It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper’*, and the bouncy and expansive, yet subtle, psychedelia on display here makes one long for the abandoned album. Nevertheless, we got there in the end, and these titanic pieces are here for you to lose yourself in time and time again.
*other pieces from those sessions were re-recorded and released as ‘Strictly Personal”.
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