Langley Schools Music Project / Audio CD (October 23, 2001)
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Innocence and Despair
Langley Schools Music Project / Audio CD (October 23, 2001)
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01) Venus and Mars/Rock Show (Paul McCartney &.Wings) 02) Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys) 03) God Only Knows (The Beach Boys) 04) Space Oddity (David Bowie) 05) The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles) 06) Band On The Run (Paul McCartney & Wings) 07) In My Room (The Beach Boys) 08) I'm Into Something Good (Earl-Jean/Herman's Hermits) 09) Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers) 10) I Get Around (The Beach Boys) 11) Mandy (Barry Manilow) |
12) Help Me, Rhonda (The Beach Boys) 13) Desperado (The Eagles) 14) You're So Good To Me (The Beach Boys) 15) Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond) 16) To Know Him Is To Love Him (Teddy Bears) 17) Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac) 18) You're Sixteen * (Johnny Burnette/Ringo Starr) 19) Little Deuce Coupe * (The Beach Boys) 20) Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphy) 21) Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact.Day) (Klaatu/The Carpenters) |
These 1976-77 recordings, captured on a 2-track tape deck in a school gymnasium, weren't staged to achieve money or fame, to sell albums or land a record contract. These kids played music because they loved it. Innocent, flawed and bittersweet, guided by Fenger's unsuspecting genius, these recordings deserve to be heard and preserved. They brim with charm and youthful Tlan, sparked by flashes of lo-fi Spectorian majesty and Pet Sounds subtlety. Call it folk art, outsider, or campfire rock -- the labels don't matter. These are gorgeous, heavenly artifacts. Period.
The students accompany themselves with the shimmering gamelan chimes of Orff percussion, and elemental rock trimmings... BarNone will distribute this CD in the US, but the Basta release contains 2 bonus tracks not included on the BarNone version.
- "The backing arrangement is astounding. Coupled with the earnest if lugubrious vocal performance you have a piece of art that I couldn't have conceived of, even with half of Colombia's finest export products in.me." --David.Bowie (on the Langley students' rendition of "Space.Oddity")
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