Live, Love, Larf & Loaf

2008 digitally remastered and expanded edition of this collaboration album featuring four previously unreleased live bonus tracks. The album Live, Love, Larf & Loaf was first released in 1987 and is a wonderful and rare collaboration between four experimental world-class master musicians. Richard Thompson once joked that if his presence on an album with John French, Fred Frith, and Henry Kaiser was expected to help it appeal to a wider audience, it didn't say much for the state of their careers. Their first album from this unlikely ensemble mixes sophisticated playing with some humorous repertoire and idiosyncratic covers. Live, Love, Larf & Loaf covers a bewildering variety of genres, from Folk and R&B to Avant-Garde and Comic Opera. The New York Times made it their Rock Album of the Week - "As it draws on music from at least four continents, Live, Love, Larf and Loaf romps past borderlines". Fledgling.