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It might be too much to expect a new LP from Soft Machine co-founder Kevin Ayers so soon after The Unfairground. After all, some 15 years elapsed between that one and its predecessor, and one assumes gathering a group of guests such as the one on Unfairground takes more than a few months' time.

Lucky for us, Ayers has amassed quite an archive in the years he's spent not releasing a heck of a lot of music, and he's raided the boxes of reel-to-reel tapes for What More Can I Say...

The disc compiles a number of previously unreleased demos and studio outtakes set to tape in the early 1970s. What More not only features Kevin at his most intimate, but also includes guest performances from Ayers' Soft Machine bandmate Robert Wyatt, Tubular Bells dude Mike Oldfield, the late bassist Archie Legget, and organist David Bedford. The set is due September 1 in the UK from LO-MAX and November 4 in the States and Canada on Reel Recordings.

There's more Kevin coming at you soon enough, as LO-MAX will issue a limited edition 7" for Unfairground's "Baby Come Home" on September 8, backed with the album's "Walk on Water".

And last but certainly not least, there's Songs for Insane Times, a four-disc retrospective of Ayers' work from 1969-1980 due September 8 from EMI Harvest in Europe, Japan, and Hong Kong (U.S. release TBA). In addition to three discs of studio selections, Insane Times collects on its fourth disc a previously unreleased concert recording from Ayers' performance at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on May 25, 1973.

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