Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the June 2003 Issue of Stereophile!
Van Dyke Parks visionary 1968 debut, Song Cycle, rose phoenix-like from the ashes of his fabled Smile collaboration with Brian Wilson. Parks breathtaking high-wire act fused the pop genius of Phil Spector, Stephen Sondheims Broadway vertigo and the orchestral flare of American composer Charles Ives and made it wholly his own.
Features:
150g Vinyl
Selections:
1. Vine Street
2. Palm Desert
3. Widow's Walk
4. Laurel Canyon Blvd.
5. The All Golden
6. Van Dyke Parks
7. Public Domain
8. Donovan's Colours
9. The Attic
10. Laurel Canyon Blvd.
11. By The People
12. Pot Pourri
Van Dyke Parks visionary 1968 debut, Song Cycle, rose phoenix-like from the ashes of his fabled Smile collaboration with Brian Wilson. Parks breathtaking high-wire act fused the pop genius of Phil Spector, Stephen Sondheims Broadway vertigo and the orchestral flare of American composer Charles Ives and made it wholly his own.
Features:
150g Vinyl
Selections:
1. Vine Street
2. Palm Desert
3. Widow's Walk
4. Laurel Canyon Blvd.
5. The All Golden
6. Van Dyke Parks
7. Public Domain
8. Donovan's Colours
9. The Attic
10. Laurel Canyon Blvd.
11. By The People
12. Pot Pourri