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Title: Van Dyke Parks + Joanna Newsom!! Post by: Rockard on March 20, 2006, 05:31:45 PM http://bandoppler.com/0306_F_Van_Parks.htm
Aarghhh... at a newsomboard, someone suggested this as wishful thinking some time ago.. totally amazing. He will arrange it! It's perfect. It will be an amazing album. It's like Brian and Van, but with different roles production wise. Btw, the album will consist of 5 song under the duration of 1 hour. I guess there won't be any singles from this.. =P Title: Re: Van Dyke Parks + Joanna Newsom!! Post by: Charles LePage @ ComicList on March 20, 2006, 05:47:26 PM Pardon me for asking, but who is Joanna Newsom?
Title: Re: Van Dyke Parks + Joanna Newsom!! Post by: Rockard on March 20, 2006, 06:41:52 PM Ahh well.. ;D
She is a soloartist, write songs and performes. What sticks out with her is that she plays mainly harp (she always plays a big harp live), and has a special voice that you either love or hate to listen to - thin and childlike. But the most important factor is that she has an amazing sensibility for good, avantgarde and quirky popmelodies, which sometimes is dimished because of her voice that may turn people off. Personally I regard her in the same league as Brian and Syd Barrett. Listen to some clips.. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001KL526/sr=8-1/qid=1142908452/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1284923-7962360?%5Fencoding=UTF8 The first album consisted of many short songs, which also spurred a single, but during a year she has premiered some new songs, live, in different incarnations, and most have evolved into longer suites. Since the first album used only harp as instrumentation, it will be interesting to see how these "suites" will evolve with the help of van dyke parks. I can't think of any aranger that will be more perfect for the job. It's a dream situation.... yummy... Title: Re: Van Dyke Parks + Joanna Newsom!! Post by: Billgoodman on March 21, 2006, 07:07:20 AM I saw Newsom a year ago on a festival
and I was blown away weird voice and songs but straight from the heart it was a shame I had to leave to catch an appointment Title: Re: Van Dyke Parks + Joanna Newsom!! Post by: andrew k on March 21, 2006, 10:21:48 AM ive seen her live twice. once just playing in ameoba records, and again opening for neil young. unfortunatley, although shes a great songwriter, her voice is unbearable to me.
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