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Kevin Ayers & The Whole World - Hyde Park Free Concert 1970
Free concert, free love, free jazz
After the comparatively sensible and now rightly trumpeted solo album , Kevin Ayers clearly longed for the musical maelstrom that he had enjoyed in Soft Machine. He therefore created The Whole World, with such luminaries as Robert Wyatt, Lol Coxhill and a young Mike Oldfield. In 1970, as part of one of the Hyde Park Free Concerts, which culminated in Pink Floyd performing Atom Heart Mother in its entirety, Kevin Ayers and his new band battered the crowd with a set of his own tunes and a couple of Soft Machine gems, Did It Again and Why Are We Sleeping, thrown in for good measure. Sounds like they had a blast. Reel Recordings, as their website will tell you, are new kids on the block who are in the habit of remastering old concerts by using a “minimalist chain of tonally neutral hi-end components” which incorporate “vintage tube buffering”. The results are outstanding and represent one more tiny step towards the musical Holy Grail of time travel.
As much a document of the ethos of the free concerts and the day itself as it is of Kevin and the band laying down a searing and delicious set on the dazed crowd, this is an immersive and exciting live set that has been handled with care and, dare we say it, love.
Reel Recordings | RR 002
Reviewed by Jan Zarebski
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