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Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer who has composed various film and television soundtracks. He is best known for his 1967 album Song Cycle and for his collaborations with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys (particularly the album Smile ).
These releases — six 45s with sleeve art by eminent artists — were Van Dyke Parks' first commercial solo recordings since the 1998 Warners album Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove, and return the listener to a last-century experience: listening to a song, studying the sleeve art, and getting up to flip the record.
Apr 25, 2017 · By breaking with pop-music standards, Van Dyke Parks created some of the most inventive and sonically breathtaking arrangements of the past 40 years.
Jan 18, 2012 · That popular music (the popular stuff, the records in the pop charts) atrophied into rock’s basic archetypes so quickly (they’re all in 1967’s Inside Pop), and all still exist as templates half a century later, must surely surprise more musicians than just Van Dyke Parks…
May 22, 2013 · Van Dyke Parks, ‘The All Golden’, performed in 2010. Before I leave, Van Dyke talks me through the luscious instrumental album he put out for Record Store Day, Super Chief: Music For The Silver Screen. It’s a compilation of his soundtrack work, re-recorded and re-assembled into something like programme music: an orchestral representation ...
Jul 27, 2013 · In true Van Dyke Parks fashion, the complex orchestrations of the new Songs Cycled sound cinematic. But unlike his other projects, this album gave the musician the opportunity to speak his...
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