Nick Mason - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1981) {Columbia}
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© 1992 Columbia Special / Collectors Series | WF 75070
Rock / Fusion
Columbia, apparently attempting to cash in on Pink Floyd's explosion in popularity, released this album in 1981 under Nick Mason's name when in reality he's simply the drummer in this incarnation of Carla Bley's ensemble; Ms. Bley composed all the music and lyrics for this project. It's possibly her most overtly pop-oriented album, with all eight songs featuring vocals by Soft Machine alumnus Robert Wyatt. The music, by Bley's standards, is fairly pedestrian if occasionally catchy, though the lyrics are often wryly amusing.Personnel: Nick Mason (drums, percussion); Robert Wyatt, Karen Kraft (vocals); Chris Spedding (guitar); Gary Windo (flute, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, background vocals); Michael Mantler (trumpet); Gary Valente (trombone, background vocals); Howard Johnson (tuba); Terry Adams (piano, Clavinet); Carla Bley (keyboards); Steve Swallow (bass).
So we have songs about failed car motors and a skeptic's encounter with a flying saucer, and one dedicated to unappreciative audiences titled "Boo to You Too." Though the band is staffed with several fine jazz musicians, the music has more of a rock or jazz-rock feel, largely due to the spotlight on guitarist Chris Spedding, who evidences slick, if relatively uninteresting, chops. To the extent the songs succeed, Wyatt can take much of the credit. His engagingly hoarse voice is capable of both wrenching sincerity and mordant humor; pieces like "Do Ya?," where he is asked to tortuously squawk the line "God knows I try!," would collapse entirely with a less convincing vocalist. The closing cut, "I'm a Mineralist," is the one that leaves a lasting impression. Conflating geology and minimalism, it includes lines like "Erik Satie gets my rocks off/Cage is a dream/Philip Glass is mineralist to the extreme," before launching into a note-perfect rendition of some pointedly bland Glassian measures. For Pink Floyd completists, this album might provide a glimpse into an alternate universe of which they were otherwise unaware, but fans of Bley's earlier masterpieces like Escalator Over the Hill are likely to emerge somewhat disappointed.
tracklist:
01. Can't Get My Motor To Start
02. I Was Wrong
03. Siam
04. Hot River
05. Boo To You Too
06. Do Ya?
07. Wervin'
08. I'm A Mineralist
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Nick Mason / Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports
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Track 8
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EAC extraction logfile from 7. September 2012, 19:57
Nick Mason / Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports
Used drive : TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552L Adapter: 6 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\FLAC\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=EAC FLAC -8" %s
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 3:35.12 | 0 | 16136
2 | 3:35.12 | 4:10.70 | 16137 | 34956
3 | 7:46.07 | 4:46.15 | 34957 | 56421
4 | 12:32.22 | 5:12.23 | 56422 | 79844
5 | 17:44.45 | 3:24.72 | 79845 | 95216
6 | 21:09.42 | 4:29.63 | 95217 | 115454
7 | 25:39.30 | 3:55.47 | 115455 | 133126
8 | 29:35.02 | 6:14.45 | 133127 | 161221
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