Don Van Vliet Shorts

Description: Captain Beefheart

Description: Captain Beefheart illustration

Description: The Abstract Blues of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Description: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band : The Sound of the Surreal

Description: Where desert blues enters the machine and normal frequency disappears. Desert Frequency Control Unit channels Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band through an impossible anatomical broadcast system packed with fish bones, tape reels, harmonica circuitry, saxophone machinery, wandering eyeballs, cactus transmitters, and surreal desert signals. A weathered underground-print aesthetic turns the whole composition into a strange musical experiment somewhere between blues laboratory, desert hallucination, and late-sixties avant-garde artifact. Built for listeners who know that the dial should never stop at normal.

Description: A crooked transmission from somewhere between desert blues, free-jazz circuitry and an imaginary late-night broadcast that should never have reached the airwaves.

Description: Captain Beefheart

Description: Desert Portrait Band

Description: Captain Beefheart + quote