Bill Fay Group - Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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Artist: Bill Fay GroupEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Music Label: Durtro / Jnana
Soundtracks:
- Strange Stairway
- Spiritual Mansions
- Planet Earth Daytime
- Goodnight Stan
- Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- Just a Moon
- To Be a Part
- Sam
- Lamp Shining
- Turning the Pages
- Love Is the Tune
- After the Revolution
- Jericho Road
- Strange Stairway
- Life
- Hypocrite
- Man
- Cosmic Boxer
- We Are Raised
- Isles of Sleep
Free Music Notes for Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Free Music Review: Beautiful, hooky, strange...
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a lovely, odd record and I'm grateful to David Tibet or whomever was responsible for unearthing it from wherever it's been buried since its recording in the late '70s and early '80s. Fay's music is odd, lush, and inexplicably moving: I'm not a spiritual person, particularly, but songs like "Strange Stairway" tug at something deep within me. "Tomorrow" has emotional weight, but its songs are also masterfully constructed, even hooky in places, and Fay's overdubbed voices deepen the intimacy of his sound. He's backed by a sympathetic band here, three musicians who clearly share Fay's vision - they veer from folk to psych in the space of a few measures, and Gary Smith's guitar alternately caresses and cuts. I'm at a loss for apt comparisons - Syd Barrett, maybe, though Fay replaces Barrett's untethered whimsy with something more serious.
As a previous reviewer noted, the two halves of the album proper are interrupted by a set of nine tracks (not listed on the outside of the disc) that appear to be demos - the sound quality is rough, but the sometimes fragmentary songs are of consistently high quality. A nice bonus, if oddly placed.
Ideally, listeners should probably come to this one through Fay's two early '70s albums for Decca, "Bill Fay" and "Time of the Last Persecution" - the former finds Fay's simple, jewel-like songs lavishly set in arrangements for a 27-piece orchestra, while the latter is a much rockier affair (in both senses of the word). For the moment, both are back in print in nicely remastered versions from Eclectic Discs, so grab 'em while you can. Each is wonderful, and rewarding in its own way - but neither fully prepared me for the rough beauty and the mystery of "Tomorrow."
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