Van Dyke Parks (autor de las letras del “Smile” de los Beach Boys) ha recopilado en el álbum “Songs cycled” la serie de singles de vinilo en los que en los últimos años ha publicado sus primeras grabaciones desde 1989. “Songs cycled”, que Bella Union lanzará el 6 de mayo, contiene nuevas grabaciones, regrabaciones de viejas canciones y versiones. Van Dyke Parks ha contado con la colaboración del guatemalteco Gaby Moreno e Inara George, de Bird and The Bee.
Listado de canciones “Songs Cycled”:
01. ‘Dreaming of Paris’ (original)
02. ‘Hold Back Time’ (re-recording of song from Orange Crate Art)
03. ‘Sassafras’ (new recording, originally by Billy Edd Wheeler)
04. ‘Black Gold’ (a fantasy on the sinking of The Prestige, off the coast of the Bay of Biscay, recorded in 2002)
05. ‘Aquarium’ (cover of Saint-Saëns piece, recorded in 1971 with the Esso Trinidad Steel Band)
06. ‘Money Is King’ (picks up where “Wall Street” ends, written with Growling Tiger, a.k.a. Trinidadian Calypso musician Neville Marcano)
07. ‘Wall Street’ (original)
08. ‘The Parting Hand’ (version of a Sacred Harp hymn from the 1800s)
09. ‘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)
