Nick Drake - Made to Love Magic
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Artist: Nick DrakeEdition: Music CD
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: This Is Magic
Hit: 5 Stars
The tragic genius that he was, so unknown during his lifetime and now celebrated and rightly so. Nick Drake put simply was (and still in my mind is) the greatest folk singer Britain has ever produced. Forget, Fairport Convention and Vashti Bunyan, Nick is the real deal.
His music moves me in ways no artist has ever done. The autumnal beauty of his songs take me on a journey through his life, I feel like I'm standing in that recording studio with him on "Pink Moon" and I feel his breath on "Five Leaves Left". Currently I don't own "Bryter Layter" but that is my life's top priority at the moment, screw everything else, I won't be a complete human being till I own every song Nick's voice appears on.
Some people may see this as a bit over the top, but if they listen to this album they will see my point. A collection of rarities and previously unreleased b-sides "Made To Love Magic" is a worthy eulogy to Nick's grandeur. Every song is flawless.
There are three immediate distinctions of Nick's music: his voice, guitar style and unique sound.
His voice is husky and changes over the course of his catalogue. This collection has a wide array of his vocal timbres as many were recorded in the desperation of his last days. Chilling, yes, but a lot of hope can be heard in his depressing voice. It has a very quaint English accent to it and sounds very feminine.
I consider Nick to be the greatest guitarist that ever lived, unlike Hendrix or Cobain he never had to rely on mass amplification and fuzz that overshadowed the techinical ability of their playing. Nick's solely acoustic playing adds a new dimension to music, his tunings were simply genius and have basically never been repeated. He plays the guitar with such finesse and intuition it often takes away from the integrity of his lyrics.
I have never heard folk music sound so unique, the string infusion into Nick's music on his earlier music especially give folk a lushness never heard before or again since. This collection picks up on that well. These b-sides rival any of Nick's album work.
Nothing Nick has done could be called bad. While this is an amazing collection I am still under the agreement that "Pink Moon" is his best work.
Made to Love Magic Poster
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 MaidmentJapanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase. Limited to 5000 Copies.
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