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This is very helpful, because I’ve been frustrated with the results of my numerous attempts to find recordings involving Laswell that help me understand why everybody wanted to work with him.

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The New York Gong album with Daevid Allen, which is a pretty good take on punk!

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Also helps solve the mystery of why Whitney Houston's first recording is of Hugh Hopper's old Wylde Flowers song also recorded by Soft Machine, Daevid Allen, and Robert Wyatt.

Unless Giorgio Gomelsky, who managed most of the above and helped with Material, suggested it independently! I prefer the Wylde Flowers version for its lightness and the nifty instrumental section.

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