The album Live, Love, Larf & Loaf was first released in 1987 and is a wonderful and rare collaboration between four experimental world-class master musicians: JOHN FRENCH - original drummer with Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band, FRED FRITH - founder of the art-rock ensemble Henry Cow, HENRY KAISER - innovative experimental guitarist and composer and RICHARD THOMPSON - singer-songwriter par excellence and founding member of Fairport Convention. “A oddball delight from four truly gifted musicians” - Live, Love, Larf & Loaf was judged 'Rock Album of the Week' by the New York Times. This carefully re-mastered and packaged edition adds four previously unreleased live tracks.

“As it draws on music from at least four continents, 'Live, Love, Larf and Loaf' romps past borderlines”.
John French : drums, vocals
Fred Frith : bass, violin, vocals
Henry Kaiser : guitar, sanshin
Richard Thompson : guitar, vocals

track list:
Wings á la Mode
Killerman Gold Posse
Where's The Money?
Hai Sai Oji-San
Drowned Dog Black Night
Surfin' USA
A Blind Step Away
The Second Time
Tir-Nan-Darag
Disposable Thoughts
Bird In God's Garden / Lost and Found
Drumboogie
The Same Thing
Night Comes In live
Invisible Means live
Quick Sign / Suzanne live
Madness Of Love live

Release date: 14th April 2008
Barcode number: 5020393 306720

Price: £12.00
UK PnP: £0.00

Invisible Means is the second oddball masterpiece from four of the world’s finest experimental master musicians, was originally released in 1990. Together French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson conjure up a heady mix, covering a bewildering variety of genres, from folk and R&B to avant-garde and comic opera. Underpinning the whole album is the extraordinary level of their musicianship. Fledg’ling Records are proud to present this newly re-mastered, maximum length CD, including a previously unreleased live cover of the Rolling Stones’ ‘Play With Fire'.

“The ensemble playing is never less than inspired”.

Amongst the many highlights are John French's hilarious ‘Now That I Am Dead’ - in which a deceased musician discovers death is the career boost he’s being waiting for), and Richard Thompson’s remarkable ‘Begging Bowl’ and the simply stunning ‘Killing Jar’.



JOHN FRENCH - drums & lead vocal
FRED FRITH - bass
RICHARD THOMPSON - guitar & lead vocal
HENRY KAISER - guitar

track list:
1 PEPPERMINT ROCK
2 TO THE RAIN
3 LIZARD'S TAIL
4 MARCH OF THE COSMETIC SURGEONS
Act 1, scene 1, The Clinic of Dr. Krikstein. On a podium, Centre, MRS. RIPSTOCK-GEDDES is posing as Aphrodite, complete with water jug. Enter Left DR. KRIKSTEIN, followed by his STUDENTS, marching Indian file to the rhythm of the music.
5 SUZANNE
6 QUICK SIGN
7 BEGGING BOWL
8 KALO TAKARIVA
9 INVISIBLE MEANS
10 LOCH LOMOND
11 PLAY WITH FIRE (live bonus track)
12 THE BOOK OF LOST DREAMS
13 DAYS OF OUR LIVES
14 THE EVENING NEWS
15 THE NEARSIGHTED HERON
16 NOW THAT I AM DEAD
17 HUNTING SUNSETS
18 KILLING JAR

Release date: 1st September 2008
Barcode number: 5020393 307222

Price: £12.00
UK PnP: £0.00