Brainville began as a collaboration between Shimmy Disc founder Kramer and three of the legends of Canterbury rock, Gong founder Daevid Allen, Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper, and Pip Pyle, who drummed for Gong, Hatfield and the North, and National Health. Despite three of the musicians having made their names during the psychedelic rock era, the band's music has a contemporary sound. Kramer collaborated with both Allen and Hopper on two albums each and so it was only a matter of time before he collaborated with both at once. The most logical choice of drummer would then be Pyle, who has played frequently with Allen and Hopper over the last three decades.
The Children's Crusade is a unique beast of an album produced by Kramer and recorded in New York in 1999. Extreme, electric, progressive, psychedelic jazz rock with a strange Fluid, treated, melodic bass, by Hugh and Kramer (together sometimes!) with Daevid's big chiming, heavily effected guitar and heavily treated vocals, encouraged and embroidered upon by Pip's intelligent drumming. An album that gives loads to digest and ponder, sometimes brilliant, sometimes totally far out. It is by turns bizarrely beautiful and strangely dark.
March of the Goodbyes 3.48 (Allen/Brainville)The Revenge of Spartactus 4.05 (Brainville)
The Children's Crusade 3.15 (Kramer/Brainville)
Alphaville Beach 7.52 (Brainville)
Goodbye Mother Night 2.35 (Allen/Brainville)
The Killing 4.15 (Brainville)
Useless By Moonlight 1.21 (Kramer)
The Fall of Colonel Kong 5.36 (Brainville)
The Revenge of Clare Quilty 12.18 (Allen/Brainville)
Brainville Eclipse 5.01 (Allen/Brainville)
Merkin Muffley's Lament 1.22 (Allen)
- Daevid Allen: Vocals, Guitars
- Hugh Hopper: Bass
- Kramer: Bass, Vocals
- Pip Pyle: Drums
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