Don Van Vliet; born Don Glen Vliet, January 15, 1941 is an American musician and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, active between 1965 and 1982, with whom he recorded 12 studio albums. Noted for his powerful singing voice with its wide range, Van Vliet also played the harmonica, saxophone, bass clarinet, piccolo oboe and shehnai. His music blended rock, blues and psychedelia with free jazz, avant-garde and contemporary experimental composition. An iconoclastic mix of complex instrumentation, atonal melodies, and often humorously surreal lyrics, it was crafted through dictatorial control over his musicians and creative vision.
Todays tune Sun Zoom Spark is originally taken from his seventh album "Clear Spot" back in 1972. But this version (Sun Zoom Spark, Acoustic Sessions 1972) is found on Dichotomy.
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