Muffins Baker'S Dozen CD

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.'

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 13. English 14. Teddy Roosevelt 15. Egress Gnome Odd/Impromptu Factory 16. Wombat 17. /Why Pursue It/Captain Tugg Tocatta/Swashbuckler with a Brainblock 18. Courtest of Your Focal Interest Span/Please Do Not Open Dr Fisher 19. The Manilla Robots/Joe Crop on a Toxic Planet/The Bush 20. Chronometers 21. Creznor Okay 22. Intro 23. Solemn Music 24. President Nixon's Retirement 25. Ways Till Sunday 26. Carbons 27. Expected Freedom 28. Prince Albert in the Can 29. Monkey with the Golden Eyes 30. Amelia Earhart 31. Intro 32. Expected Freedom 33. Band of Brothers 34. Expected Freedom 35. Not Alone Solo 36. Amelia Earhart Solo 37. Imprimatur 38. Not Alone 39. Closing Hours 40. Monkey in the Middle 41. Lady in a Brown Paper Bag 42. Amelia Earhart 43. Monkey with the Golden Eyes/Hobart Got Burned 44. The Adventures of Captain Boomerang 45. Not Alone Solo 46. Whistling While We Work 47. To-Ing and Fro-Ing 48. Children and Art 49. Not Alone 50. Under Dali's Wing 51. Horsebones 52. The Grammy Snap 53. Under Dali's Wing (False Start) 54. Under Dali's Wing 55. Horsebones 56. Horsebones 57. Zoom Resume 58. Boxed and Crossed 59. Zoom Resume 60. Bit Hand 61. Wonder World 62. Not Alone Solo 63. Silence 64. Chrestomathy 65. Through Shawn's Lens 66. Father Tongue 67. Dirty Trousers 68. Horsebones 69. Under Dali's Wing 70. Squeaker's Dream 71. Boxed and Crossed 72. Zoom Resume 73. Queenside 74. Angle Dance 75. Antidote to Drydock 76. World Maps 77. Bob the Bat 78. In the Black Room 79. Ups and Downs 80. Poetry Drive 81. North of Muffin Head 82. She Wears Her Dead Mother's Hat 83. Talking with the Planets 84. Down from the Sun Tower/Impossible John 85. Dancing in the Street 86. Horny Toads 87. There Not There 88. Vocabulario 89. Hobart Got Burned 90. Silence 91. The Highlands 92. The Two Georges 93. Breaking the X 94. Walking the Duck 95. These Castle Children 96. World Maps/Down from the Suntower/Impossible John/Military Road 97. Under Dali's Wing 98. Horsebones 99. Dear Mona 100. People in the Snow 101. Out of the Boot/Nan True's Hole 102. East of Diamond/The Adventures of Captain Boomerang 103. Silence 104. Writing Blind 105. Combo 106. Intro 107. These Castle Children 108. The Adventures of Captain Boomerang 109. The Ugly Buttling 110. Walking the Duck 111. Dear Mona/Impossible John/People in the Snow 112. East of Diamond 113. The Man in the Skin-Painted Suit 114. Childhood's End 115. Stethorus Punctum 116. Intro 117. Exquisite Corpse/Out of the Boot/Sam's Room 118. Smaller But More Heads 119. Maya 120. Aquatone 121. Angel from Lebanon 122. Queenside/Antidote to Drydock/Angle Dance 123. Choombachang 124. Amelia Earhart 125. Beat /In the Ghost Light 126. KGB 127. Palindrome 128. The Angel's Shard 129. Not Yet Awake 130. Fishing in America 131. Dynamite Is Not the Solution 132. When Fela Comes to Town 133. King Fish 134. Bats and Birds 135. Yukapoe's Lament