Artist: The Muffins

Title: Baker's Dozen

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2022

Label: Cuneiform

UPC: 045775050027

Genre: Rock

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Prelude
2. Phase - Portable Hollow
3. Interlude
4. Phase - Buzz Aldrin
5. Interlude
6. Phase - What a Place for a Wart
7. Brix
8. Three Days That Won't Soon Fade
9. English
10. Bartok Stockpot
11. The Return of Uncle Don
12. Blind Cave Tetra

DISC 2:
1. English
2. Teddy Roosevelt
3. Egress Gnome Odd/Impromptu Factory
4. Wombat
5. /Why Pursue It/Captain Tugg Tocatta/Swashbuckler with a Brainblock
6. Courtest of Your Focal Interest Span/Please Do Not Open Dr Fisher
7. The Manilla Robots/Joe Crop on a Toxic Planet/The Bush
8. Chronometers
9. Creznor Okay

DISC 3:
1. Intro
2. Solemn Music
3. President Nixon's Retirement
4. Ways Till Sunday
5. Carbons
6. Expected Freedom
7. Prince Albert in the Can
8. Monkey with the Golden Eyes
9. Amelia Earhart

DISC 4:
1. Intro
2. Expected Freedom
3. Band of Brothers
4. Expected Freedom
5. Not Alone Solo
6. Amelia Earhart Solo
7. Imprimatur
8. Not Alone
9. Closing Hours

DISC 5:
1. Monkey in the Middle
2. Lady in a Brown Paper Bag
3. Amelia Earhart
4. Monkey with the Golden Eyes/Hobart Got Burned
5. The Adventures of Captain Boomerang

DISC 6:
1. Not Alone Solo
2. Whistling While We Work
3. To-Ing and Fro-Ing
4. Children and Art
5. Not Alone
6. Under Dali's Wing
7. Horsebones
8. The Grammy Snap

DISC 7:
1. Under Dali's Wing (False Start)
2. Under Dali's Wing
3. Horsebones
4. Horsebones
5. Zoom Resume
6. Boxed and Crossed
7. Zoom Resume
8. Bit Hand
9. Wonder World
10. Not Alone Solo
11. Silence
12. Chrestomathy
13. Through Shawn's Lens
14. Father Tongue
15. Dirty Trousers

DISC 8:
1. Horsebones
2. Under Dali's Wing
3. Squeaker's Dream
4. Boxed and Crossed
5. Zoom Resume
6. Queenside
7. Angle Dance
8. Antidote to Drydock
9. World Maps
10. Bob the Bat

DISC 9:
1. In the Black Room
2. Ups and Downs
3. Poetry Drive
4. North of Muffin Head
5. She Wears Her Dead Mother's Hat
6. Talking with the Planets
7. Down from the Sun Tower/Impossible John
8. Dancing in the Street
9. Horny Toads
10. There Not There
11. Vocabulario
12. Hobart Got Burned
13. Silence
14. The Highlands
15. The Two Georges
16. Breaking the X

DISC 10:
1. Walking the Duck
2. These Castle Children
3. World Maps/Down from the Suntower/Impossible John/Military Road
4. Under Dali's Wing
5. Horsebones
6. Dear Mona
7. People in the Snow
8. Out of the Boot/Nan True's Hole
9. East of Diamond/The Adventures of Captain Boomerang
10. Silence
11. Writing Blind
12. Combo

DISC 11:
1. Intro
2. These Castle Children
3. The Adventures of Captain Boomerang
4. The Ugly Buttling
5. Walking the Duck
6. Dear Mona/Impossible John/People in the Snow
7. East of Diamond
8. The Man in the Skin-Painted Suit
9. Childhood's End
10. Stethorus Punctum

DISC 12:
1. Intro
2. Exquisite Corpse/Out of the Boot/Sam's Room
3. Smaller But More Heads
4. Maya
5. Aquatone
6. Angel from Lebanon
7. Queenside/Antidote to Drydock/Angle Dance
8. Choombachang
9. Amelia Earhart
10. Beat /In the Ghost Light
11. KGB
12. Palindrome
13. The Angel's Shard
14. Not Yet Awake
15. Fishing in America
16. Dynamite Is Not the Solution
17. When Fela Comes to Town
18. King Fish
19. Bats and Birds
20. Yukapoe's Lament

Limited 13 disc (12 CDs + DVD) set. Baker's Dozen is a box set of nearly all previously unreleased live and studio recordings from 1975 - 2010! It includes a huge, informative booklet. The entire box is a treasure trove of never seen and never heard material. The Muffins were a Washington, D.C. area band who existed from 1974-81and then again with their best-known line-up still intact from 1993-2015. They were called, "... The finest progressive band that America produced... even at it's most complicated, (they) sounded effortless & convincing" by Fred Frith. They also acted as Fred's backing band on his first post-Henry Cow solo album, Gravity. The Muffins, a group equally influenced by the then-current British progressive rock sounds of bands such as Henry Cow, National Health and Soft Machine as they were by contemporary American jazz and improvisational artists like Anthony Braxton, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra and Miles Davis, were formed in Washington, DC in the early 1970s and recorded three albums before disbanding in 1981. In 1998 the group reformed and recorded a further six albums. AllMusic describes their music as a 'unique blend of Canterbury progressive, fusion, improvisation and much more.'