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Nut Music
  Starship Beer
   Wes Mingin (guitar, piano)
   Pat O'Brien (voice, percussion)
   Kevin Whitehead (bass, percussion, clarinet)
   Dave Tiffany (alto saxophone)

An outlandish excursion in out-rock, improvised noise & experimental sounds -- or as Starship Beer called it, NUT MUSIC.  From a great, little-known upstate New York trio, formed at the dawn of the 1970s. This Starship was heavily influenced by Captain Beefheart and creative jazz, but concocted its own uniquely demented, completely charming music. The group included well known artist Pat O'Brian (whose work graces the reissue), and music journalist Kevin Whitehead, author of NEW DUTCH SWING (Billboard Books) and the jazz authority on NPR Radio's "Fresh Air."

This reissue compiles the entirety of their sole long out-of-print LP, NUT MUSIC: AS FREE AS THE SQUIRRELS, originally released on the Land Mammal label in a single batch of 1000 in 1979. Legendary saxophonist & fellow upstater Joe McPhee has been a fan of the record since it was issued, and he gushes: "Pure ambrosia!

Packaged with it's original cover, in-depth context-laden liner notes by Whitehead, a rare period photo of the band, and some new cartoons by O'Brian.  Also included: almost another entire record's worth of bonus tracks, all previously unreleased.

15 tracks in 78:12 minutes

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