Product Details
Pink Moon [Remaster] (CD)Album Notes
| Miscellaneous |
| Personnel: Nick Drake (vocals, guitar, piano). |
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| It's widely reported that by the time Nick Drake got around to recording his third and final album, PINK MOON, his already-precarious mental/emotional state had drastically deteriorated. In a deep depression, Drake recorded a brace of solo acoustic tunes, dropped the tape off unannounced at the label's office one day, and that was the last the world at large ever heard of Drake's music. |
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| The results of those solo sessions were as harrowing and stark as anything by Robert Johnson or Charley Patton. Enclosed in an inner world of psychological distress, Drake recorded PINK MOON's dispatches from a private hell that was simultaneously terrifying and beautiful. Both the lyrics and the melodic motifs are pared to the bone here, their simplicity making them all the more immediately striking. The most nakedly emotional and disturbing moment is probably "Parasite," a visceral-but-mysterious account of a disconsolate soul roaming through the world in search of succor, with Drake taking the starring role, ultimately offering, "take a look, you may see me in the dirt." This was the end of the road for Nick Drake in more ways than one, but just the beginning for the scores of songwriters subsequently inspired by his bleak-but-beautiful visions. |
Album Details
| Album Title | Pink Moon [Remaster] |
| Performer | |
| Number of Discs | 1 |
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| Engineer | John Wood |
| Producer | John Wood |
| Mono/Stereo | Stereo |
| Studio/Live | Studio |
| Label | Island Records (USA) |
| Catalog Number | 842 923 |
| Release Date | 05/06/2003 |
| Import | No |
| UPC | 042284292320 |
Artist/Group
| Overview |
| Nick Drake was the quintessential fragile genius. His late-1960s and early-'70s albums combine pastoral, very British romanticism with a jazzy folk lilt that owes a debt to Tim Buckley and Tim Hardin. His hypnotic whisper of a voice and his virtuosic fingerpicking were the perfect emissaries for Drake's songs of quiet longing and displacement. Though he was virtually unknown during his too-short life, he would posthumously inspire a subsequent generation of artists. |
| Definitive Albums |
| Bryter Layter |
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| Five Leaves Left |
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| Pink Moon |
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| Way to Blue: An Introduction to Nick Drake |
Also See
| Performers |
| Steeleye Span; Various Artists |
| Albums |
| Poor Boy: Songs of Nick Drake; Sculpting From Drake Vol. 1 |
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