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Joy of a Toy

Index Joy of a Toy

Joy of a Toy is the debut solo album of Kevin Ayers, a founding member of Soft Machine. [1]

44 relations: Abbey Road Studios, AllMusic, Arrangement, Audio engineer, Backing vocalist, Bass guitar, Candie Payne, Canterbury scene, Cello, Dave Sinclair, David Bedford, Drum kit, Experimental rock, Gibson J-200, Guitar, Harvest Records, Hugh Hopper, Kevin Ayers, London, Mellotron, Mike Ratledge, Oboe, Organ (music), Paul Buckmaster, Peter Jenner, Photography, Piano, Psychedelic pop, Psychedelic rock, Record producer, Richard Coughlan, Richard Sinclair, Robert Wyatt, Rolling Stone, Shooting at the Moon (album), Singing, Singing a Song in the Morning, Soft Machine, Syd Barrett, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Ladybirds, The Ladybug Transistor, The Madcap Laughs, The Times.

Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios (formerly known as EMI Recording Studios) is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also sometimes recording engineer or a vocal engineer) helps to produce a recording or a performance, editing and adjusting sound tracks using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Candie Payne

Candice "Candie" Payne (born 19 December 1981) is an English singer and songwriter.

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Canterbury scene

The Canterbury scene (or Canterbury Sound) is a subgenre of, or sibling to, progressive rock.

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Cello

The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.

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Dave Sinclair

David (Dave) Sinclair (born 24 November 1947 in Herne Bay, Kent, England), is a keyboardist (organ, pianos, synthesizer) who has been strongly associated with the progressive rock Canterbury Scene since the late 1960s.

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David Bedford

David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937 – 1 October 2011) was an English composer and musician.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Gibson J-200

The Gibson J-200 (Super Jumbo 200) is an acoustic guitar model produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Harvest Records

Harvest Records is a British record label belonging to Capitol Music Group, originally created by EMI, active from 1969 to present.

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Hugh Hopper

Hugh Colin Hopper (29 April 1945 – 7 June 2009) was a British progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist.

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Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mellotron

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England, in 1963.

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Mike Ratledge

Michael Roland "Mike" Ratledge (born 6 May 1943) is a British musician.

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Oboe

Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind instruments.

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Organ (music)

In music, the organ (from Greek ὄργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.

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Paul Buckmaster

Paul John Buckmaster (13 June 1946 – 7 November 2017) was a Grammy Award-winning British artist, arranger, conductor and composer.

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Peter Jenner

Peter Jenner (born 1943) is a British music manager and a record producer.

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Photography

Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Psychedelic pop

Psychedelic pop is a pop music subgenre in which musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music are applied to pop songs.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Richard Coughlan

Richard Coughlan (2 September 1947 – 1 December 2013) was an English musician, best known as the drummer and percussionist of the Canterbury scene progressive rock band Caravan.

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Richard Sinclair

Richard Stephen Sinclair (born 6 June 1948) is an English progressive rock bassist, guitarist, and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene.

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Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Shooting at the Moon (album)

Shooting at the Moon is the second solo album of Kevin Ayers, on Harvest Records.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Singing a Song in the Morning

"Singing a Song in the Morning" (originally titled "Religious Experience") was the first solo single released by Kevin Ayers, one of the founding members of the band Soft Machine.

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Soft Machine

Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs.

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Syd Barrett

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, and musician.

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was an American-English rock band that formed in Westminster, London, in September 1966.

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The Ladybirds

The Ladybirds were a British female vocal harmony trio, most famous for their appearances on The Benny Hill Show.

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The Ladybug Transistor

The Ladybug Transistor is a Brooklyn-based indie pop group associated with The Elephant Six Collective.

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The Madcap Laughs

The Madcap Laughs is the debut solo album by the English singer-songwriter Syd Barrett.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_of_a_Toy

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