Nick Drake - Made to Love Magic
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Artist: Nick DrakeEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
Published: 2004
CD Release Date: 2004-06-22
Music Label: Fontana Island
Soundtracks:
- Rider on the Wheel
- Magic
- River Man
- Joey
- Thoughts of Mary Jane
- Mayfair
- Hanging on a Star
- Three Hours
- Clothes of Sand
- Voices
- Time of No Reply
- Black Eyed Dog
- Tow the Line
Free Music Notes for Made to Love Magic
Free Music Review: The essential Nick Drake album
Hit: 5 Stars
Made to Love Magic is both definitive and tentative. But that was always the edge of Drake's work. In a way, this album sounds like the world's best demo album.
There are amazing songs on this album. It's like Nick playing for you in your living room. That intimacy gives this album its fragile beauty, and it's also why Drake could never become a pop star.
Drake's acoustic guitar work in this album is nothing less than astounding.
Certainly, Drake was a conflicted person. The song "Three Hours" describes the dark side of a gay slave and victim world. The songs "Joey" and "Clothes of Sand" slide between genders. Who knows. And who cares. The tragedy of love knows no gender or skin color.
Regardless, Drake's vulnerable beauty could never assult the tough walls of the pop world. And that's why this is one of the best acoustic songwriter albums, period.
Made to Love Magic Poster
Japanese remastered pressing released in miniature LP sleeves. Limited to 5000 units. Island. 2004.All the world's a stage and folk legend Nick Drake--a frail, reclusive romantic whose music was sad but beautifully emancipating and who died young in 1974 in mysterious circumstances--was one of life's reluctant players. As epithets go, the lyrics to Made to Love Magic ("I was born to sail away into a land of never, not to be tied to an old stone grave") aptly convey how Nick Drake's legend continues to gather no moss, even some three decades after his lonely tranquilized farewell. Enthusiastic newcomers should start with any of Drake's three studio albums (Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon) and Patrick Humphries' definitive biography but Made to Love Magic is, nevertheless, essential. Consisting of rare and unheard tracks (many of which have even avoided the mucky paws of the keenest bootlegger) and compiled by those closest to him (sister Gabrielle, engineer John Wood, and fellow Cambridge University student and string-arranger Robert Kirby) the album is a labor of love. Lost amateur recordings of Nick Drake at University in Cambridge, outtakes from the Five Leaves Left album, Robert Kirby's unused string arrangements for "Magic" and "Time of No Reply" finally restored, an early rendition of "Three Hours" featuring Rebop Kwaku Baah (Traffic, Can) on percussion and remixed versions of those despairing final songs from July 1974, including the newly discovered "Tow the Line." This is surely the final word on Nick Drake; unless, of course, those Aix-en-Provences tapes and that mythical lost Peel session from August 1969 ever make themselves known. --Kevin Maidment
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