Track Listing 1. Orange Crate Art 2. Sail Away 3. My Hobo Heart 4. Wings of a Dove 5. Palm Tree and Moon 6. Summer in Monterey 7. San Francisco 8. Hold Back Time 9. My Jeanine 10. Movies Is Magic 11. This Town Goes Down at Sunset 12. Lullaby
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Arnold McCuller, Carmen Twillie, Danny Hutton, Grant Geissman, Richard Greene | | Producer: | Van Dyke Parks | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Brian Wilson (vocals); Van Dyke Parks (keyboards); Ira Ingber (guitar, mandolin, programming); Grant Geissman, Fred Tackett, Dennis Budimir, Brian Otto (guitar, mandolin); Terry Schonig (hammered dulcimer); Richard Greene (violin); Tommy Morgan, David McKelvy (harmonica); Dan Savant (trumpet); Lee Sklar, Carl Sealove (bass); Bernie Dresel, Chili "Darryl Francis" Charles (drums, percussion); Robert Odin Greenidge (steel drums); Bruce Donnell, Marvin Saunders, Mike Watts (synthesizer programming); Danny Hutton, Doug Lacy, Donny Gerrard, Carmen Twillie, Arnold McCuller, David Joyce, Bob Joyce, Mona Lisa Young, Johnny Britt, Jules Greene (background vocals); Clementine, Sid Page, Bruce Dukov, Fredric Myrow. Engineers include: David Appelt, Britt Bacon, Jon Baker. Written and produced by Parks, with all the vocals sung by Wilson, ORANGE CRATE ART is an aural landscape that evokes the California of bygone eras. Stunningly diverse, this majestic album finds Brian Wilson in amazingly fine and full voice, weaving complex harmonies around pop, calypso, samba and any other non-rock melange that suits Parks' composing fancy. The spectral lyrics conjure sweeping pastoral images, and the music is somehow both enigmatic and accessible. Standouts include the title track, the grandiose "Movies Is Magic," "On The Wings Of A Dove," and the breezy, fleeting "This Town Goes Down At Sunset." Some 28 years after their initial, unreleased SMILE collaborations, Wilson and Parks have delivered a beautiful and challenging song-cycle that stands up to their artistic reputations.
Editorial Reviews ...Pop innocence at its best on an album so sweet it's disarming. - Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly (12/01/1995)
8 (out of 10) - ...The music--which is superb throughout--is old, barbershop, orchestral; there's a beautiful sense of America before rock and roll here. The whole thing has a sort of sense of peaceful Pacific evening about it....an extraordinarily atmospheric record... NME
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