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Demos & Alternate Takes Vol. 1
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Price: $14.00
Artist:
The Greek Theatre
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On their third Kool Kat release, Sweden’s
prog-poppers The Greek Theatre” treat us to a peek into the development of
songs from their three previous efforts that eventually made their way onto
them. But these are not lo-fi, acoustic
guitar and voice bedroom demos folks. If
you weren’t already familiar with their officially released output, you’d be
easily convinced that this was indeed a finished and polished effort – the
attention to detail and arrangements of these songs are that good! Along with two never-before-released songs (“Don’t
Eat The Berries” and “The Sunniest Day”), songs in various incarnations from all
three of their prior releases are represented here. “Stupid Constapleton”, “August Streets”,
“Sail Away”, “Even You Will Find A Home My Son” and “Frozen Highway” are all from
their debut, “Lost Out At Sea”. “Paper
Moon” (alternate instrumental mix), “All The Untired Horses” (early version of
“Ruby-Khon”), “1920”, “Kings Of Old” and “Stray Dog Blues” are all from “Broken
Circle”. “Lawrence Of Laurel Canyon” and
“Twin Larks” are both from “When Seasons Change”. “They take
us on a questing voyage of discovery where we find meandering vestiges of
psychedelic country type songs – the kind found on vintage classics such as
‘Notorious Byrd Brothers, ‘The New Tweedy Brothers’ and one or two others of a
similar ilk, that appear to melt icy meadows down into free-flowing rivers of
gold, and into flowering fields of sun-washed purple. It’s that kind of
feeling!” (taken from a review of “Lost Out At Sea”). “After only a few plays it’s pretty clear
that ‘Broken Circle’, with its dramatic arcs of windswept cool, amid a kind of
twilight pervasiveness that surrounds the welter of dream/reverie soundscapes,
proves itself another worthy collection of imaginative, pastoral-baked psychedelia
from these Swedish questors of the modern mystic.” “Enticing names like The Byrds, Roger
McGuinn and The Moody Blues form the memory, imagery and atmosphere that
unfolds as you wander through this poised and languidly passionate voyage. Lovers of pastoral, psychedelic sheens should
shimmy right on in to The Greek Theatre, but be warned, those who do are often
known to lose themselves for hours and hours on end.” (taken from a review of
“When Seasons Change”). Get the picture? GREAT!!
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