Velvet Donkey

by Ivor Cutler

Velvet Donkey cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 47:00
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Eccentric Scottish poet and musician Ivor Cutler utilizes harmonium and spoken word on the utterly bizarre 'Velvet Donkey'. The recording is a surreal, highly abstract collection of humorous and hypnotic contemporary folk vignettes.

Genres

Descriptors: male-vocals, spoken-word, eccentric, minimal, witty

Tracklist

  1. If Your Breasts (0:08)
  2. I Got No Common Sense (0:34)
  3. Useful Cat (0:26)
  4. Oho My Eyes (1:29)
  5. The Dirty Dinner (3:34)
  6. Yellow Fly (1:36)
  7. Mother's Love (0:25)
  8. The Meadows Go (1:11)
  9. Phonic Poem (0:47)
  10. Life In A Scotch Sittingroom #2 Episode 2 (3:40)
  11. Birdswing (0:49)
  12. Nobody Knows (1:53)
  13. Uneventful Day (0:31)
  14. Little Black Buzzer (1:52)
  15. Bread And Butter (0:42)
  16. A Nuance (0:35)
  17. Go And Sit Upon The Grass (2:08)
  18. Even Keel (0:37)
  19. Pearly Gleam (1:53)
  20. The Best Thing (0:22)
  21. Life In A Scotch Sittingroom #2 Episode 7 (3:33)
  22. Once Upon A Time (0:49)
  23. There's Got To Be Something (2:01)
  24. The Purposeful Culinary Implements (1:10)
  25. Gee Amn't I Lucky (1:34)
  26. The Curse (2:06)
  27. I Think Very Deeply (0:53)
  28. I, Slowly (0:23)
  29. Sleepy Old Snake (2:33)
  30. Titchy Digits (0:32)
  31. The Stranger (6:00)

Credits

  • Ivor Cutler - primary artist
  • Phyllis April King - artwork by [cover], written-by, read by
  • Fred Frith - viola

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