Bird Head Son

Bird Head Son
Bird Head Son
Studio album by Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band
Released	20 January 2009
Recorded	Meudon, France, March 2008
Genre	Jazz, funk, spoken word, afrobeat
Length	79.00
Label	Naïve/Heavenly Sweetness
Producer	Antoine Rajon
Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band chronology

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Bird Head Son is a 2009 album by poet

Leggo de Lion. During the sessions, 20 songs were recorded live in the studio with no overdubs. The album features an expanded Spasm Band line up, a septet instead of the quartet that recorded the previous album, as well as guest performers Keziah Jones, Defunkt founder Joseph Bowie

, David Neerman and Jamika Ajalon. A three-track EP, La Diablese, was released by Heavenly Sweetness in July 2008. It included the tracks "Vero", "Robberman" (both included on the Bird Head Son album) and a version of the Mighty Shadow's "Poverty is Hell". The album was released in January 2009 by Naive/Heavenly Sweetness. Joseph's third collection of poetry, also entitled Bird Head Son, was published by Salt Publishing on 7 February 2009 to coincide with the UK release of the album, and features all the lyrics from the album.

Track listing

All songs written by Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band

"Vero" 6:14
"Blues For Cousin Alvin" 4:55
"The Bamboo Saxophone" 3:29
"Jungle" 12:04
"Bird Head Son" 8:40
"Cutlass" 6:21
"His Hands" 5:19
"Two Inch Limbo" 6:21
"Conductors of His Mystery" 7:31
"River of Masks" 4:51
"Robberman" 3:28
"Dream on Corbeau Mountain" 3:46

Personnel

Anthony Joseph - Vocals, Poetry, Percussion, whistle
Andrew John - Bass
Paul Zimmerman - Percussion
Paul Brett - Percussion
Craig 'Cigar' Tamlin - Percussion
Colin Webster - Saxophone & Flute

Guest performers

Jamika Ajalon
- Backing vocals, Percussion
Keziah Jones - Guitar, backing vocals
Joseph Bowie - Trombone
David Neerman - Vibraphone
Adrian Owusu - Guitar

External links

Official website