Monkey-Pockie-Boo

by Sonny Sharrock

Monkey-Pockie-Boo cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1970
  • Label: BYG Actuel
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:50
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded in Paris for the legendary BYG Actuel series, the fiercely iconoclastic guitarist delivered an uncompromising blast of atonal free improvisation. Backed by his wife Linda's piercing, wordless vocalizations, his abrasive, feedback-heavy approach to the instrument fundamentally challenged every established convention of the jazz guitar vocabulary.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, improvisation, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. 27th Day (16:55)
  2. Soon (8:00)
  3. Monkey-Pockie-Boo (8:55)

Credits

  • Sonny Sharrock - primary artist, guitar, slide whistle, vocals [vocal], written-by
  • Beb Guerin - bass
  • Jacques Thollot - drums
  • Linda Sharrock - vocals [vocal], sleeve notes, written-by

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