Bertie - Algy Lord Gray Jodi Ichiko Hashimoto and Atsuo Fujimoto

Ichiko Hashimoto and Atsuo Fujimoto hit all the right (and sometimes not-exactly-right-but-truly-genius) notes to create the odd and beautiful

its complex

including the troubled young trumpet player featured here

all sadly gone

Bertie - Algy Lord Gray Jodi Ichiko Hashimoto and Atsuo FujimotoThe greatest lp ever made, a gloriously mad Kinks influenced underground edwardian progressive masterpiece, bertie is a deranged subversive and witty concept album about a mans descent into ruin, Dragonfly Wings combines proto Motorik drumming predating Neu with Hawkwind and Incredible String Band influences, finished off with Noel Coward y nuances. The surefire future hit Would You Like a Brown Ale? is pure Ray Davies filtered through the demented