Two amazing albums from the team of Lol Coxhill and Steve Miller – augmented here by a fair bit of previously unreleased bonus work! Both records were issued during the early years of
Virgin Records in the 70s – and are of a similar spirit to some of Robert Wyatt's more experimental moments for the label at the time. The team of Miller and Coxhill is quite an unusual one – Steve on acoustic piano, Coxhill on soprano sax – plus lots of additional production tricks, instrumental twists, and other odds and ends – all wrapped together with a sense of subtlety and gentleness that's quite different than most of the pair's contemporaries in the British jazz rock scene. Both albums are amazingly poetic – the first one a bit more spare, the second augmented with more electronics, processing, and a few special guests – and together, they represent an amazing document of a genre-less period in music – recordings that are neither jazz, nor rock, nor improvised music – but a special place between all those modes. Titles include "One For You", "Portland Bill", "Maggots", "Bath 72", "Gog Ma Gog", "G Song", "F Bit", "More G Songs", "Songs Of March", "The Greatest Off Shore Race In The World", "Soprano Derivato/
Apricot Jam", and "Oh Do I Like To Be Beside The Seaside". Plus, the CD also features many bonus tracks – Steve Miller solo takes on "One For You", "God Song", and "Big Jobs No 2"; Delivery recordings of "God Song", "Bossa Nochance/
Big Jobs", and "Betty"; and the additional Miller/
Coxhill number "Coo Coo Ka Chew".