Nick Drake - Made to Love Magic
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Artist: Nick DrakeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 2004-06-22
Music Label: Island/Universal
Soundtracks:
- Rider On The Wheel
- Magic
- River Man
- Joey
- Thoughts Of Mary Jane
- Mayfair
- Hanging On A Star
- Three Hours
- Clothes Of Sand
- Voices
- Time Of No Reply
- Black Eyed Dog
- Tow The Line
Music reviews of Made to Love Magic
Music Review: ...and now you know my name....
Rating: 5 Stars
This beautiful cd should be rewarded a grammy , John Wood , Joe Boyd, Robert Kirby , and Gabrielle Drake accepting. This would be a fitting and deserved act to acknowledge Nick's legacy. Music awards are basically meaningless but in this case we are talking about the BEST unrecognized songwriter ever , basically ignored even though he was head and shoulders above his peers- literally and figuratively. Much of this disconnect in fate had to do with Nick's reluctance to tour and play live , again ahead of his time .
It is very cool to hear the first lines of this cd from the song Rider on the Wheel "and now you know my name" because now many people do know the music of Nick Drake , 30 years after his death I might add. If you are reading this you probably know the story , that Nick wrote and recorded some of the best music ever from 1969 to approx 1972 when he personally delivered his last recording to Island without much of an explanation. I don't think they even knew what he had dropped of until weeks later as it was difficult for him to converse with people at that point. Fortunately that recording made it to vinyl and is titled Pink Moon, probably the best voice and acoustic guitar record ever recorded. Funny how it took a snipet of the song in a Volkswagen commercial to add fuel to the fire , shows you how great his writing was. It is unfortunate that Drake did not receive the acclaim due during his short life but in a case of romantic irony Nick's path through life was set before him and any straying may have kept this music from being created in the fashion that it was , similar to the story of Van Gogh. If you have read much about Nick he was obviously consumed by music and was very introspective to the point of eccentricity . It is eerily evident that he existed in order to make these recordings as he shut himself off from much of the world , especially from 1971 to 1974. The music was all that mattered to him , not marketing etc. Fortunately after giving up music for a while Nick began to write again and he recorded much of the music on Made to Love Magic , although it was not released until well after his death.
This new cd contains many of the same songs as the last vault release "Time of No Reply" however the takes are different on many and some new arrangements have been superbly applied , mainly on the title track. Nick apparently did not like the string arrangement for this song and now on this cd Robert Kirby has corrected that for Nick , stunning piece. The take of "River Man" on this cd is really cool as well, it sounds the way it probably did when Nick was originally writing it and playing it for friends- just that wonderful voice and guitar. The version on his Five Leaves Left album is no slouch either-sheer genius . Other highlights on this cd include "Black Eyed Dog" which is a very haunting song supposedly about depression and a new song called "Tow the Line" which is really good. It is a good thing that Island can share these rare recordings as Nick Drake was a very unique writer and his fans are rabid .
Musically Drake was a paradox as well, he apparently was very obsessive about inventing new ways to tune the guitar and was able to create sounds that suited his vocal tone very well. Many of his tunings are still unknown , he did not necessarily use the stand by drop "D" or DADGAD tunings, yet another mystery to solve. Drake also used odd finger patterns -inverted thumb , odd time signatures etc. This combination of inventiveness , intuition , musical skill , and poetry is what makes Nick a must listen for anyone. I highly recommend all of his recordings , they will touch upon a part of your being that has not been explored musically.
True Magic .
Description of Made to Love Magic
Japanese remastered pressing released in miniature LP sleeves. Limited to 5000 units. Island. 2004.All the world's a stage and folk legend Nick Drake--a frail, reclusive romantic whose music was sad but beautifully emancipating and who died young in 1974 in mysterious circumstances--was one of life's reluctant players. As epithets go, the lyrics to Made to Love Magic ("I was born to sail away into a land of never, not to be tied to an old stone grave") aptly convey how Nick Drake's legend continues to gather no moss, even some three decades after his lonely tranquilized farewell. Enthusiastic newcomers should start with any of Drake's three studio albums (Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon) and Patrick Humphries' definitive biography but Made to Love Magic is, nevertheless, essential. Consisting of rare and unheard tracks (many of which have even avoided the mucky paws of the keenest bootlegger) and compiled by those closest to him (sister Gabrielle, engineer John Wood, and fellow Cambridge University student and string-arranger Robert Kirby) the album is a labor of love. Lost amateur recordings of Nick Drake at University in Cambridge, outtakes from the Five Leaves Left album, Robert Kirby's unused string arrangements for "Magic" and "Time of No Reply" finally restored, an early rendition of "Three Hours" featuring Rebop Kwaku Baah (Traffic, Can) on percussion and remixed versions of those despairing final songs from July 1974, including the newly discovered "Tow the Line." This is surely the final word on Nick Drake; unless, of course, those Aix-en-Provences tapes and that mythical lost Peel session from August 1969 ever make themselves known. --Kevin Maidment
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