Birdsong, Edwin
What It Is
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

Rare 1971 Original. Jacket Is VG+ With Saw Cut. “Edwin Birdsong's Brilliant If Deeply Idiosyncratic Cosmic Jazz-Funk Opus What It Is Emerges From The Same Mindspace That Birthed Frequent Collaborator Roy Ayers' Concurrent Polydor Dates. While More Political Than Ayers — Dig "The Uncle Tom Game" And "It Ain't No Fun Being A Welfare Recipient" — Birdsong Is Also Less Grounded In Reality, And Weird-Beard Groovers Like The Club Classic "Pretty Brown Skin" And "Mongoose" Seem To Originate From A Different Plane Altogether. Moreover, Birdsong Embraces The Spiritual Dimension Of His Vision With True-Believer Fervor, Yielding Compositions Like "My Father Preaches That God Is The Father" And "When A Newborn Baby Is Born, The World Gets One More Chance." What It Is Is A Deeply Personal Statement Of Uncommon Sincerity And Scope — There's Nothing Else Quite Like It.” Jason Ankeny, AMG.