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Artist:	PARKS, VAN DYKE
Title:	Arrangements Volume 1
Label:	BANANASTAN
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	BSR 1000CD

"This new compilation is presented by Van Dyke Park's Bananastan label. All of the tracks on this album, by a diverse range of artists, have one thing in common: they were arranged by Van Dyke Parks. This compilation covers Parks' first solo recordings through the classic creative period of Warner Brothers, where his arrangements and production can be found throughout the roster. Including both rare sides and hit records, Van Dyke's touch can be heard throughout these fine tracks. From the mid sixties through the early seventies, this new compilation contains fifteen classics appearing together on one album for the first time. From the earliest work of Ry Cooder to classic Little Feat; Bonnie Raitt's calypso to Arlo Guthrie's gospel; The Mojo Men's psychedelic sounds to six rare or unreleased Van Dyke Parks solo recordings; from Dino Martin Jr.'s hot reggae to Beau Brummels' Sal Valentino's and Little Feat's Lowell George's solo sides; these fifteen songs all have the arranging imprint of the great Van Dyke Parks."

Artist:	PARKS, VAN DYKE
Title:	Wall Street/Money Is King
Label:	BANANASTAN
Format:	7"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BSR 4500EP

"Legendary artist, composer and producer Van Dyke Parks has announced the launch of a unique series of 7" vinyl singles, the first new studio music in over 15 years since he released his acclaimed album Orange Crate Art. Each vinyl single (on his own label Bananastan) will be illustrated by some of the most important and remarkable modern artists of our time. The iconic musician, who has been at the heart of some of the great albums of the last 50 years including Brian Wilson's 'lost' masterpiece Smile, Randy Newman and Ry Cooder's first recordings and Joanna Newsom's critically acclaimed 2006 album YS, intends to release six new singles over the course of 2011. Parks has commissioned some of the top contemporary artists in America to illustrate each single with what he describes as 'a work of art that relates to the music within.' The first single to be released is the Art Spiegelman-illustrated Wall Street/ Money Is King."

Artist:	PARKS, VAN DYKE
Title:	Song Cycle
Label:	SUNDAZED
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	SC 5140LP

"Van Dyke Parks' visionary 1968 debut, Song Cycle, rose phoenix-like from the ashes of his fabled Smile collaboration with Brian Wilson. Parks' breathtaking high-wire act fused the pop genius of Phil Spector, Stephen Sondheim's Broadway vertigo and the orchestral flare of American composer Charles Ives and made it wholly his own. By 1972, Discover America had turned its kaleidoscopic gaze to the 1940's martini-and-rhumba world of Hemingway's Caribbean sojourn, further validating Parks' idiosyncratic genius. Our definitive pressings of these landmark Warner Bros. albums are sourced from the original analog masters, and pressed on audiophile 180 gm vinyl."

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