T.S. Bonniwell - Close flac album

It marked a total departure from Bonniwell's rebellious protopunk period with The Music Machine, to a soft rock crooning style

Bonniwell - Close 1969 (2012). The sole solo album by ex-Music Machine leader Sean Bonniwell, using the name . Bonniwell for this release, must have come as a surprise to the few people who heard it. There was none of the angst or hard garage rock associated with many of the Music Machine's finest moments. In its place was quite subdued, orchestrated singer/songwriter pop, verging on easy listening at times in its arrangements.

You may not recognize the . but perhaps the last name of Bonniwell rings a bell. That’s right-this is the long-lost, sole solo album from Sean Bonniwell, the leader of the legendary punk-rock garage band the Music Machine.

If nothing else, his ability to switch into that voice for an entire album is a tribute to pretty astonishing vocal versatility. It's a shock, though, to hear not only him focusing almost exclusively on that vocal timbre, but also to hear him as a troubadour of moody, romantic, melancholy, and introspective songs, with plenty of touches of flamenco, bossa nova, and sweeping horns and strings. Actually this material isn't so bad, though it treads close to the saccharine at times

Still, "Close" showed another side of an ambitious and creative musician with a diverse and unerring instinct for the various directions rock music would head in coming decades. He's gone, but let the music "Continue. In 1969 I was a huge Music Machine fan and wanted to hear more of their limited releases, so I purchased "Close" eagerly. But upon listening to it, I was disappointed. Where was that snarling vocalist I loved so much?

It marked a total departure from Bonniwell's rebellious protopunk period with The Music Machine, to a soft rock crooning style  . Close was released on August 4, 1969, but its distribution suffered from only being issued to California and from lack of promotion. Nonetheless, it successfully expanded Bonniwell's musical prowess, and displayed his versatility as a vocalist.

The Bonniwell Music Machine (album). The Bonniwell Music Machine is the second and final album by the American garage rock band, The Music Machine, recorded under the renamed moniker, The Bonniwell Music Machine, and released on Warner Bros. Records, on February 10, 1968 (see 1968 in music).