On The World Is Empty, the Heart Is Full, Raspberry Bulbs strip away excess and come back sharper, crueler and strangely more tuneful. Eleven compact songs fuse metallic edge, noise‑rock abrasion and post‑punk unease, with venomous vocals lashing out at a self‑satisfied “underground” that mistake style exercises for substance.
1990 release (light wear) ** The second ESP-Disk' statement, 1966: Marion Brown with a killing band including Stanley Cowell at the piano, deepening everything the debut promised. The writing is stronger, the group interplay more spacious, and Brown's alto - that singing, speech-like sound, closer to a voice than almost any horn of the era - moves through the material with total assurance, balancing fire and lyricism phrase by phrase. The mid-sixties ESP sessions caught a whole generation at the…
Original and sole purple vinyl edition on Capitol's "New Deluxe Series" of the 1968 Japan-only live compilation album featuring Joe Zawinul. With original innersleeve.
1970's US re-issue on Atlantic with laminated and die-cut gatefold sleeve with embossed blue stereo, of the 1961 album featuring Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, Freddie Hubbard and Ed Blackwell. With original innersleeve.
1974 US re-issue on Atlantic with un-laminated and no die-cut gatefold sleeve of the 1961 album featuring Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, Freddie Hubbard and Ed Blackwell. With original innersleeve.