On May 19, 4:30=EF=BF=BDpm, MFalc1 <mfa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> From Randy Lewis of THE LOS ANGELES TIMES:
> Brian Wilson's 'That Lucky Old Sun' album due in September
> The former Beach Boys mainstay's themed work, snapshots of Southern
> California life, will be released Sept. 2 and represents his return to
> Capitol.
> By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
> May 19, 2008
> Brian Wilson extends his personal and creative renaissance of the last
> decade with an ambitious new themed album, "That Lucky Old Sun," a
> work to be released in September exploring the Southern California
> culture that he helped define musically in the 1960s as the guiding
> creative force of the Beach Boys.
>
> Wilson also returns to his former group's longtime label, Capitol
> Records, for this project that comes on the heels of his completion in
> 2004 of his "Smile" album, which he shelved in 1967 because of
> mounting personal and professional problems.
>
> "Brian Wilson is an iconic talent with enormous musical influence all
> over the world and we are very proud to be representing him," said Guy
> Hands, executive chairman of Capitol's parent company, EMI Music.
> Hands and other EMI and Capitol executives are scheduled to appear
> with Wilson today at Capitol's headquarters in Hollywood for the
> formal announcement of their renewed partner****p.
>
> "That Lucky Old Sun," slated for release Sept. 2, got its world
> premiere last September in London's Royal Festival Hall, the same
> venue where he unveiled the finished "Smile" after aborting it 37
> years earlier.
>
> "Smile" had been widely anticipated as a rival to the Beatles' "Sgt.
> Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" as a dramatic advance in pop music
> of the time. After its belated release in 2004, "Smile" landed at No.
> 2, behind Kanye West's "The College Dropout," among the Village
> Voice's nationwide poll of pop music critics on the year's best
> albums.
>
> "That Lucky Old Sun," written by Wilson in collaboration with "Smile"
> lyricist Van Dyke Parks and Wilson's latter-day band member Scott
> Bennett, features an "interwoven series of 'rounds' with interspersed
> spoken word," its composer said in a statement released today.
>
> It comprises a series of narratives with the sun, voiced by Wilson, as
> the narrator of a series of snapshots of life in Southern California.
>
> Reviewing the London performance, England's Mojo magazine called it
> Wilson's "most ambitious new work since returning from the wilderness,
> [recalling] 'Pet Sounds' and 'Smile,' not least in its playfully
> baroque arrangements -- a playground riot of glockenspiel, timpani,
> strings and harmonies all played with a smile -- and melodic nods to
> the Beach Boy canon, complementing the autobiographical bent of the
> lyric-book."
>
> Wilson, 65, and his band are scheduled to introduce "That Lucky Old
> Sun" to hometown audiences in a string of three performances Sept. 12
> to 14 at the Hollywood Bowl.
>
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