Ivor Cutler, Linda Hirst Privilege

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• Ivor Cutler’s first album since 1978’s career high point Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Volume Two, 1983’s Privilege is a bit of an oddity in Cutler’s oeuvre. Produced by ambient music pioneers David Toop and Steve Beresford, this is the first Cutler album since 1967’s George Martin-produced Ludo with a musical component beyond the artist’s own piano and harmonium parts. Toop and Beresford place his droll Scotch-accented recitations and homely singing in musical settings dominated by Eno-like keyboard effects, banjo, euphonium, and alto flute. Too melodic to be truly ambient, the musical passages are nonetheless subordinate to Cutler’s lyrics, poems, and short stories. Another oddity is that Linda Hirst, who recites several of the poems and adds subtle wordless backing vocals to some of the