Sold Date: November 9, 2014
Start Date: April 16, 2014
Final Price: $19.66 (USD)
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ARTIST: Van Dyke Parks
TITLE: Song Cycle
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: Sundazed
CATALOG #: LP-5140
RECORD CONDITION: NEW
JACKET CONDITION: NEW
DESCRIPTION: 
"Van Dyke Parks moved on from the Beach Boys' abortive SMiLE sessions to record his own solo debut, Song Cycle, an audacious and occasionally brilliant attempt to mount a fully orchestrated, classically minded work within the context of contemporary pop. As indicated by its title, Song Cycle is a thematically coherent work, one which attempts to embrace the breadth of American popular music; bluegrass, ragtime, show tunes -- nothing escapes Parks' radar, and the sheer eclecticism and individualism of his work is remarkable. Opening with "Vine Street," authored by Randy Newman (another pop composer with serious classical aspirations), the album is both forward-thinking and backward-minded, a collision of bygone musical styles with the progressive sensibilities of the late '60s; while occasionally overambitious and at times insufferably coy, it's nevertheless a one-of-a-kind record, the product of true inspiration." - Jason Ankeny & allmusic.com


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