Brian Wilson's "Bedroom Tapes"

Anywhere to heard this stuff? Is a release likely?

@ https://steveleeds.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/brian-wilsons-secret-bedroom-tapes/

According to Ed Roach, who filmed the Beach Boys endlessly during the early 1970s, there exists a tape of Brian and his daughter Carnie reciting narration for what may have been a second fairy-tale record. A spring ’72 track titled “Rooftop Harry” is described by one listener as “schizophrenia on tape”; another, “Spark in the Dark,” is a pounding organ jam whose jagged synth lines result in a catchy melody later recycled for Wilson’s solo career. Other titles such as “Symphony of Frogs,” “Patty Cake” and “Song to God” have been tossed around but never heard.

“A lot of the music that Brian was creating during this period,” notes Alan Boyd, the Beach Boys’ current archivist and my co-director on the Carl Wilson Foundation documentary, “was full of syncopated exercises and counterpoints piled on top of jittery eighth-note clusters and loping shuffle grooves. You get hints of it earlier in things like the tags to ‘California Girls,’ ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ and all throughout Smile, but it takes on an almost manic edge in the ’70s.”

Boyd, who also directed Endless Harmony, a 1998 VH1 special on the Beach Boys, has been cataloging the band’s tape archive for two decades. He confirms that enough material exists to comprise a new release focused solely on the “Bedroom Tapes.” (The rights to these recordings reside with Brother Records, the Beach Boys’ own imprint, founded in 1967.) A number of issues, however, may prevent this from happening.

Sounds incredible