Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports

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Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports is an album of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, which was released in May 1981, the first solo project of Nick Mason was. He " risked " exclusively with song material of jazz and avant-garde musician Carla Bley, who also co - produced the album, a " jazz-rock trip ."

Background to the album

Mason learned Bley in 1976 with a production of her then husband, trumpeter Michael Mantler know. At the onset of the former album The Hapless Child and Other Inscrutable Stories Mason was as involved as guitarist Chris Spedding and Robert Wyatt, even if was taken on the resulting plate of drum part by Jack DeJohnette and the guitar part by Terje Rypdal. However, he had a role in the post-production of the album.

Originally Mason had planned to include in the United States a solo album with very different songs; Bley but then sent him a tape with some of their ideas. This was different for him very much of what they had written and was supposedly doing on the line of what he liked. Therefore, he decided to make an album with her ​​pieces, rather than try to find pieces of other authors that could match it. The album was (supported by Mason) Mantler recorded in October of 1979 in the Grog Kill Studios, New York ( parallel to the recordings of The Wall ). The band, which included another musician Carla Bley band performed several times with the program live on. In addition, some titles were on the keyboardist Terry Adams of NRBQ and the singer Karen force that had Spedding met in New York, involved. Other musicians from Bley's band participated in the chanting. Some of the critics go on the assumption that it is actually a - albeit "pop - oriented " - Bley album RELATES that would only marketed for commercial reasons under the name of the drummer.

Was mixed, the plate should first be called Spot the player in December 1979 and May 1980. Publication of the plate was delayed another year out. The cover was as also designed mainly for Pink Floyd covers, from the company Hipgnosis & Geoff Halpin.

Tracks on the album

All tracks were composed by Carla Bley, who also wrote all the lyrics.

Music Album

Can not Get My Motor to Start is the most rocking tracks of the disk. Bley castigated in the preference of Mason and Mantler for cars. Mason recalls in retrospect that he and Mantler had quite a bit of time consumed instead of for recording or editing the tapes to talk about cars

Hot River portrays Pink Floyd and alludes to numerous musical clichés that had developed the band since the late sixties. The guitar playing is reminiscent of David Gilmour and the vocal part is inspired by Dark Side of the Moon ( where it is not so sound as if it were recorded underwater).

Siam is a study of how pieces from The King and I would have to be developed in a New Wave context.

In I'm a mineral List it is superficially about a mineralogist who just loves its minerals; but apparently is more of a minimalist meant. The text says: " Eric Satie drags my clunker from, Cage is a dream, and Philip Glass is a mineral List to the extreme. " Then follows a passage from his opera Einstein on the Beach (1976 ) until the band returned to the song Bleys falls back.

Reception Album

The album disappoint diehard fans of Pink Floyd because of its aesthetics.; it was considered " too silly " and felt too strange. Friends of Bleys masterpieces such as Escalator over the Hill would however also a bit disappointed, though the oddball humor of the album, which were highlighted " sharp solos " and the fusion of rock, jazz as well as structures and rhythms of the avant-garde. In the American charts, the album reached number 170

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Record label Harvest Records Electrola Genre Jazz fusion Electronic keyboard Bass guitar Singing Howard Johnson (jazz musician) John Cage
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