Nick Drake's Pink Moon (33 1/3 Series) by Amanda Petrusich
By Amanda Petrusich
Purple Moon explores how Nick Drake's 3rd and ultimate album has puttered and purred its means right into a new millennium. positive aspects interviews with manufacturer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, or even the promoting group at the back of the VW Cabrio advertisement that introduced the album to platinum prestige greater than thirty years after its free up.
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Mary Magdalene. It was a quiet end to a quiet life. ” His grave sits a few feet from a robust English oak, overlooking the lush Warwickshire countryside. Devoted fans routinely deposit tiny gifts at its base: a white candle, strings of beads, flowers, letters, drawings. The circumstances of Nick Drake’s overdose are as much a part of his legacy as his songs. His death is inextricable: No matter how hard we try to eschew the cult of Drake, to divorce his art from his disease, it is pervasive, omnipresent.
They both were two troubled geniuses. Nick rarely played live and, if I am correct, there are no filmed performances of him. Truly a shame, as this would be a wonderful thing to see. David Leto Rye Coalition Pink Moon: A wild record of enlightenment for the kinda people who don’t like to get wild. Almost everyone I know who digs music and/or plays music has had some sorta connection with Drake at some point. For me it is this record, along with his other stark compositions/modal downers found in early live boots/lost tapes, that I really get off on.
I wasn’t sure what song it was, but I knew I loved the sound of his voice and the harmonic language and the idiosyncratic way he played the guitar. I was home in Los Angeles and I went out and got Fruit Tree because I wanted to have all the Nick Drake music I could get 31 my hands on. I went onto the Internet and found the various home recording things, trying to get every scrap I could. I just think he’s extraordinary. The harmony can sometimes be simple, but it’s very sensual. There’s a real French sense of harmony overlaid onto what, in the English music history line, can probably be traced back to John Dowland and all the really great songwriters and musicians of the fifteenth century.