Nick Drake - Made to Love Magic
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Artist: Nick DrakeEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-06-22
Music Label: Fontana Island
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: Made to love magic (Nicholas Rodney Drake) cd review
Rating: 5 Stars
Hm. Strange album
This would seem to be an attempt to update the earlier Time of No Reply album. There are a couple repeat tracks from that album (like Joey, Thoughts of Mary Jane) that reappear on this. And I would swear that the odd repeat is a second or 2 longer! perhaps they mastered differently
First, the new song (Towing/Toeing the line) - its great. Its been heard on bootleg for years (well, the guitar backing track) but its a superb song, found by engineer John Wood after long years (since recorded in February 1974 to be precise)
And Nick sets down his guitar at the end, so that would seem to be the last of "new" tracks
For years before the release of the 4 (now 5) 1974 tracks (Hanging on a star, Rider on the wheel, Black eyed dog, Voice from the mountain, Towing the line)on Time of No Reply it was always said the tracks were destroyed in accord with Nicks wishes
This is very odd cos the version of Rider on the Wheel here is very different from the songs first release on Time of no reply! It has different vocals for a start, and intro (maybe Nick did more than one take?)
It would seem theres a lot of stuff thats unreleased. Mojo Magazine noted some years back there were 100 hours of Nick on tape, stuff he recorded at Tanworth in Arden...
So, if you are into Nick, you will need to get this. Of course a lot of this will be familiar (Three Hours originally appeared on Five Leaves Left, the jam on the song here seems to feature Chris Wood from Traffic on flute!)
And the version of Mayfair is a little different from the earlier performance of the song on Time of no reply (no whistling!)
The Rykodisc issue of Time of no reply now seems to be out of print, so this is the one to buy. Check out Time of no reply though. Although this Magic package has nice liners, so too does Time (its liners talk about Nicks work tape, from which a lot of this stuff comes, and also includes lyrics for the (then) 4 1974 tracks)
That being said, the best stuff seems to be only available on bootleg, like the fingerpicked version of Place to be. That not turning up on the Family Tree (2007) album was a sin..
So after
picking up this album, buy Time of no reply (its liners include lyrics, notes on the recordings). Then try to find the two volumes of Time has told me (with 2 (incomplete) tracks of Nick playing on the BBC) along with Tanworth in Arden v2
Give Family Tree a pass. Its not really worth listening to, though the liner notes by Nicks sister are wonderful
Just a shame the fingerpicked Place to be was left off..
Description of Made to Love Magic
Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase. Limited to 5000 Copies.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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