Friday, March 29, 2013

Van Dyke Parks - Songs Cycled

Van Dyke Parks - Songs Cycled

Release Date is on May 6, 2013

Van Dyke Parks - Songs Cycled Tracklist:

1. Dreaming of Paris (original)
2. Hold Back Time (re-recording of song from Orange Crate Art)
3. Sassafras (new recording, originally by Billy Edd Wheeler)
4. Black Gold (a fantasy on the sinking of The Prestige, off the coast of the Bay of Biscay, recorded in 2002)
5. Aquarium (cover of Saint-Saëns piece, recorded in 1971 with the Esso Trinidad Steel Band)
6. Money Is King (picks up where “Wall Street” ends, written with Growling Tiger, a.k.a. Trinidadian Calypso musician Neville Marcano)
7. Wall Street (original)
8. The Parting Hand (version of a Sacred Harp hymn from the 1800s)
9. The All Golden (a re-recording from Song Cycle)
10. Wedding in Madagascar (version of traditional folk song)
11. Missin’ Mississippi (original)
12. Amazing Graces (ft. The Van Dyke Parks Orchestra)

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