Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle flac album

Song Cycle is the debut album by American recording artist Van Dyke Parks, released in late 1967 by Warner Bros. Records president Lenny Waronker. The album draws from a number of American popular music genres, including bluegrass, ragtime, and show tunes, and frames classical styles in the context of 1960s pop music.

Songs Cycled is the seventh studio album by Van Dyke Parks, released on Bella Union in 2013. It is his first of original material since 1995's Orange Crate Art. It features relatively new compositions, re-recordings, and covers by Parks. Throughout 2011 and 2012, Parks began sporadically releasing a series of 7" singles through his independent record label Bananastan spanning both archives and recently recorded songs.

So, this was Van Dyke Parks’ debut album. So, here’s a spoiler. Song Cycle has no joined that rarified air. That’s right; this album is a curse and a plague on humanity. Okay, that’s out of the way. Let’s move on. Next up is Palm Desert and, like most of the songs on the rest of the album, it’s a Parks original. Those two words now evoke a shudder of absolute horror in my soul. So, this is a song about going to Hollywood. I guess this album is considered a masterpiece of arrangement. And it is, if you call flinging every instrument in the world in a blender and then sort of making a giant soup out of them all.

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Van Dyke Parks, a slight guy with a fine line in bizarre, innovative instrumental arrangements, creates sounds that embody the very essence of capricious experimentation. And this first album is where it is at its most potent and enjoyable. Song Cycle (remastered and reissued alongside two follow-up LPs, Discover America and Clang of the Yankee Reaper) is the ultimate confection.

After Song Cycle, Parks disappeared back into his arranging work for four years. It wasn't until 1972 that he dared put out another record with his name on the sleeve. Discover America begins, as Song Cycle did, with a brief clip of someone else's music. The album contains only one original Van Dyke Parks composition- the title track. The rest is a lovely and generously selected songbook record, ranging from the calypso of Mighty Sparrow's "Pass That Stage" and Sandpebbles' "Another Dream" to Irving Caesar's Tin Pan Alley tune "You're a Real Sweetheart". All lovely songs, with lovely performances, but otherwise, it is the least-essential of Parks' first three records