Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy is a experimental music

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

/spoken word album

Spoken word album

A spoken word album was a record album that did not consist mainly of music or songs, but of spoken material. It could be said to be the ancestor of today's audiobook format...

 by poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 Lady June (a.k.a. June Campbell Cramer). It features musical contributions by Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers is an English singer-songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement...

 and Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

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Overview

The recording was made for £400 in the living room of Kevin Ayers' Maida Vale

Maida Vale

Maida Vale is a residential district in West London between St John's Wood and Kilburn. It is part of the City of Westminster. The area is mostly residential, and mainly affluent, consisting of many large late Victorian and Edwardian blocks of mansion flats...

 home. The original release was originally a limited pressing of 5000 copies which quickly sold once followers of Eno and Ayers realized that they contributed to the recording. The album has been reissued subsequently by Market Square Records

Market Square Records

Market Square Records is a music publishing, promotion and record label company started in 1999. It releases the back catalogues of British folk artists and has also expanded into other genres such as rock, blues and jazz....

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Track listing

Side 1

1. "Some Day Silly Twenty Three"
2. "Reflections"
3. "Am I"
4. "Everythingsnothing"
5. "Union"
6. "The Tourist"

Side 2

1. "Bars"
2. "The Letter"
3. "Mangel/Wurzel"
4. "To Whom It May Not Concern"
5. "Optimism"
6. "Touch Downer"

Personnel

• Lady June: Vocals
• Kevin Ayers
  Kevin Ayers
  Kevin Ayers is an English singer-songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement...
  
  : Guitar, bass, Vocals
• Brian Eno
  Brian Eno
  Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
  
  : Electronic Guitar, Bass, Imminent, Linearment, Lunar Lollipops, Vocals
• Pip Pyle
  Pip Pyle
  Phillip "Pip" Pyle was an English-born drummer from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, who later resided in France...
  
  : Drums
• Martha: Vocals
• David Vorhaus: Kaleidophon, Mix
• Jakob Klasse: Piano

External links

• Lady June biography
• Credits on PlanetGong
• Lady June obituary
• Lady June photographs