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Joy of a Toy is the debut solo album of Kevin Ayers, a founding member of Soft Machine. He is accompanied on the LP by pianist and arranger David Bedford as well as his erstwhile Soft Machine colleagues Robert Wyatt and Mike Ratledge, and his eventual replacement Hugh Hopper, who had previously worked with him in the semi-pro band Wilde Flowers.
Feb 3, 2024 · From the impish bizarreness of the opening track to the twisted, semi-parodic, alt-folk of All This Crazy Gift Of Time, Joy Of A Toy is a unique, sometimes unsettling experience. Is it half-arsed and throw-away, or is the subversive genius torching the rulebook?
With the album name taken from an eclectic Ayers/Ratledge-penned tune on the Softs debut, JOAT sets the vibe straight away with the amusing, cheerful sing-a-long tune, entitled 'Joy of a Toy - continued', executed in perfect 60's style by Ayers and his friend David Bedford, with an almost child-like glee.
Joy of a Toy is the debut solo album of Kevin Ayers, a founding member of Soft Machine. He is accompanied on the LP by pianist and arranger David Bedford as well as his erstwhile Soft Machine colleagues Robert Wyatt and Mike Ratledge, and his eventual replacement Hugh Hopper, who had previously worked with him in the semi-pro band Wilde Flowers.
A founder member of Canterbury's jazz bohos Soft Machine, he cut loose in pursuit of a solo career in 1969. His first album, Joy of a Toy was released as the decade turned. He followed this...
Joy of a Toy is the debut solo album of Kevin Ayers, a founding member of Soft Machine. He is accompanied on the LP by pianist and arranger David Bedford as well as his erstwhile Soft Machine...
Bedford studied music at the Royal Academy of Music under Lennox Berkeley, and later in Venice under Luigi Nono. In the late 1960s, he was engaged to orchestrate Kevin Ayers' album, Joy of a Toy, on which he also played keyboards. This led to him playing keyboards with Ayers' band, The Whole World.
