Saturday, July 17, 2021

AFRTS (Various Artists) - 'The Simple Gifts' (1972)

This is a really, really weird and unsettling recording. It's some kind of PTSD coping exercise, and I'm pretty sure it's the only record ever released by the Armed Forces Radio and Television Services. 

Not sure if it's actual veterans on the album, but it's mostly extremely harrowing spoken word pieces set to sometimes restrained, sometimes atonal orchestral music. 


Tracklist:

1. The Sea
2. I Am a Number
3. His Childish Face Grown Old Too Soon
4. Look to This Day
5. I Pity the Drunk
6. Who Has Woe?
7. Good Old Days
8. The Committee
9. The Door
10. Words... Words... Words
11. Show Me My Door
12. Beggars on Church Steps
13. Hearts Unlovely and Unloved
14. Don't Be Angry
15. Who is Man?
16. Simple Gift 

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