'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'
'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'
Brian Wilson + Van Dyke Parks - Orange Crate Art
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April 11, 2010
Van Dyke Parks collaborated with Brian Wilson on the latter's SMiLE, the follow-up to the Beach Boys' groundbreaking album Pet Sounds. Parks and Wilson didn't work again until 1995, nearly 30 years after the SMiLE sessions. However, the resulting album, Orange Crate Art isn't quite a collaboration -- it's a collection of Parks songs as sung by Wilson.
The album is an aural landscape that evokes the California of bygone era woven around pop, calypso, samba and other non-rock melanges from Van Dyke Parks' compositions.
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