[2020-06-19] Brian Wilson And Van Dyke Parks "Orange Crate Art" 2CD expanded remaster (Omnivore)

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

Description
In 1966, when Brian Wilson prepared the follow up to his masterpiece Pet Sounds, he employed the services of Mississippi born Van Dyke Parks as lyricist for The Beach Boys next album, SMiLE. As history would soon document, SMiLE became the most famous unreleased album in rock history, its “completion” not seeing daylight until a Grammy®-award winning box set in 2012. SMiLE’s original plan was to incorporate many different elements of American music in an avant-garde fashion, its musical format leaps and bounds ahead of anything that existed contemporaneously.

As SMiLE quickly grew in legendary terms, Brian and Van Dyke each went their separate musical ways, only to reunite briefly in 1972 for The Beach Boys classic “Sail On Sailor.” So it was perhaps with great apprehension and excitement that these two musical giants should finally reunite in 1994 for some unfinished business. This time, however, the mission would be complete. The musical terrain familiar… a paean to California… Omnivore Recordings is very proud to announce the release of the 25th anniversary special edition of Orange Crate Art by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks.

By 1994, the roles had been reversed and it was Van Dyke who coaxed Brian into the studio to be the singer of nearly a dozen new songs he had written as a tribute to his home away from home. Parks writes in the liner notes, “Though my roots are somewhere else, far away, my limbs are here in Southern California… it’s here… that I have struggled desperately for a sense of place… Orange Crate Art is a continuum of that which stood, freeze-frame, at the release of SMiLE.

Twenty-five years on, this album which sounds like nothing before or since, has been majestically re-mastered by multi-Grammy® award winner Michael Graves. Available on vinyl for the very first time, the deluxe CD package contains three previously unreleased bonus tracks as well as instrumental track versions of 11 of the album’s songs.

Orange Crate Art… before SMiLE… after SMiLE… it all makes sense now!

Tracklist
[CD1: Orange Crate Art]
1. Orange Crate Art
2. Sail Away
3. My Hobo Heart
4. Wings Of A Dove
5. Palm Tree And Moon
6. Summer In Monterey
7. San Francisco
8. Hold Back Time
9. My Jeanine
10. Movies Is Magic
11. This Town Goes Down At Sunset
12. Lullaby
13. Rhapsody In Blue [Bonus Track]
14, Love Is Here To Stay [Bonus Track]
15. What A Wonderful World [Bonus Track]

[CD2: Instrumentals]
1. Orange Crate Art
2. Sail Away
3. My Hobo Heart
4. Wings Of A Dove
5. Palm Tree And Moon
6. Summer In Monterey
7. San Francisco
8. Hold Back Time
9. My Jeanine
10. Movies Is Magic
11. This Town Goes Down At Sunset

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087CSYLGK/?tag=imwan-20

Glenn S. · 30 Oct 2006

This album seemed to fly under the radar when it first came out but I enjoyed it. "San Francisco" has ended up on more than one of my mix CD's.

JoeP · **Joined:** 20 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 542

I bought it back when it came out. The music is nice and it's a consistent sound musically. Brian's voice take a little getting used to - it's not aided be the his own signature layered vocals which frankly hides some of his lost voice.

I like some of the tracks though.

He released another album that year, the "soundtrack' for I just wasn't Made for These Times." While is was basically reworkings of old Beach Boys songs, and again, his voice was a little more exposed, it sounded pretty damn good.

GodsComic · 03 Aug 2006

I bought this album when it came out and really loved it, but like many of my CDs it was filed away and rarely played in recent years.
I ended up buying the vinyl edition, and have to say I'm blown away. The album is more magical than I remembered

My friend wrote a review, and gives his version of why he think it sounds better all these years later. Although I don't care about numbers and bits and all that, I just know my ears love this record.

https://audiophilereview.com/audiophile ... ition.html

Jay · 12 Jul 2006

I am really enjoying the reissue. Perhaps with SMiLE now out, it is much easier to appreciate for what it is rather than lament what it wasn’t (at the time).

[2020-06-19] Brian Wilson And Van Dyke Parks "Orange Crate Art" 2CD expanded remaster (Omnivore)

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