"The Mirror Man Sessions" (1999) features the complete remastered contents of "Mirror Man", albeit in a resequenced running order, and fills out the rest of the CD with a number of bonus tracks taken from additional recordings, both finished and unfinished, made around the same time for what would have been a double album titled "It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper".
As a listening experience, the package will appeal more to those who value the instrumental Beefheart; the Mirror Man album is, of course, essentially a 50-plus-minute jam session, containing as it does only four songs, and the bonus tracks - many of which appeared on the One Way label's reissue of "Safe as Milk" - mostly consist of jams and instrumentals which push the boundaries of conventional blues-rock, with a Beefheart vocal tossed in here and there.
Some may miss Beefheart's surreal poetry, gruff vocals, and/or free jazz influence, while others may find it fascinating to hear the Magic Band simply letting go and cutting loose.


Captain Beefheart
and His Magic Band

The Mirror Man Sessions

1967




CD / 1999 / 320Kbps


Tracklist:

01 Tarotplane.mp3 44 MB

02 25th Century Quaker.mp3 23 MB

03 Mirror Man.mp3 36 MB

04 Kandy Korn.mp3 19 MB

05 Trust Us (Take 6).mp3 17 MB

06 Safe as Milk (Take 12).mp3 11 MB

07 Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones.mp3 7 MB

08 Moody Liz (Take 8).mp3 10 MB

09 Gimme Dat Harp Boy.mp3 8 MB