ヴァン・ダイク・パークスのアルバム『Songs Cycled』、全曲フル試聴実施中

ポップ・マエストロ、ヴァン・ダイク・パークス（Van Dyke Parks）が日本（紙ジャケ仕様）で5月15日、英国で5月6日、米国で7月23日に発売するアルバム『Songs Cycled』。全曲フル試聴実施中



68年のデビュー作『Song Cycle』をモチーフにした名前を持つ本作は、ヴァン・ダイクが自身のレーベルBANANASTAN RECORDSからの自主制作盤としてリリースした7インチ・シリーズ（6枚）の収録曲をまとめたもの。計12曲入り。

●『Songs Cycled』

1. ‘Dreaming of Paris’ (original)
2. ‘Hold Back Time’ (re-recording of a 1995 song from the Orange Crate Art album with Brian Wilson)
3. ‘Sassafras’ (new recording, originally by Billy Edd Wheeler in 1961)
4. ‘Black Gold’ (November 30, ‘02 – a fantasy on the sinking of The Prestige, off the coast of the Bay of Biscay)
5. ‘Aquarium’ (cover of 1886 Saint-Saëns piece, an analogue recording with the Esso Trinidad Steel Band in 1971 – VDP produced their album)
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’ (1835 hymn from the tradition of unaccompanied choral music known as the Sacred Harp)
9. ‘The All Golden’ (new recording from VDP’s 1967album Song Cycle)
10. ‘Wedding in Madagascar’(traditional a capella folk-song, arranged and adapted by VDP)
11. ‘Missin’ Missippi’ (original)
12. ‘Amazing Graces’ (instrumental with the ‘Van Dyke Parks Orchestra’)