Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
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Music CD Cover Artist: Van Dyke Parks Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 1990-05-18 Music Label: Warner Bros / Ada Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Song Cycle Album
Free Music Review: From a man who can't sing, an incredible masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
A friend recently asked me to listen to an album called "Song Cycle" and then tell him what I thought of it. His manner indicated I might be in for something unexpected. I knew of Parks' involvement with Brian Wilson on Pet sounds, but until then didn't realize Parks was a recording artist himself. I played Song Cycle through headphones and soon found myself thoroughly engrossed in this densely layered masterwork. I later told my friend, "he can't sing, but this may be one of the most incredible albums I have ever heard". Parks' untrained, querelous falsetto was strikingly unusual and, that first time through, even unpleasent to my ears. No matter. The lyrics are dense and ingeniously constructed, not only in rhyme but subject matter. They show remarkable artistic and intellectual maturity for a man of any age, much less one in his early twenties. One gets the impression of a wry and highly incisive, but gently humourous mind at work. The recording production and string arrangements are equally ingenious and highly experimental, even by today's standards. Too bad the recording is somewhat noisier than other albums of the same era. Maybe Parks was trying to push the mutitrack technology of the time a little too far. Or maybe WB dropped the ball by not mastering it properly when they realized what he had created. Either way, my friend had to practically rip the album out of my hands many weeks later, and after many intent listenings. Time to purchase my own long-overdue copy of Song Cycle. Its experimental brilliance may doom it to relative obscurity, but I believe it will continue to have a resounding effect just below the surface of popular culture. Perhaps not a bad fate after all.