Nick Drake: Bryter Layter (New 200g Universal Japan)

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Apr 5, 2009 Sold Date

Mar 31, 2009 Start Date

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Nick Drake: Bryter Layter (Sealed 200g Audiophile limited edition Universal Japan)

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The Japanese are meticulous in the pressing of their records and this album is pressed on dead-quiet, 200g Japanese Virgin Vinyl, obliterating pressings done elsewhere. Highest-quality from the original analog tapes. This was a strictly one-time pressing run and was extremely limited. It is now deleted.

The second album from Nick Drake came in 1970, and while not quite as melancholy as his debut, Five Leaves Left, there are certain brooding qualities that continued to propagate the Nick Drake mystique. Horns, flute, and strings arrangements lift such songs as At the Chime of a City Clock and Hazy Jane I and II out of the realm of sad, folk-guitar music into something jazzier and lighter, while the beautiful piano and simple guitar of One of These Things First laments what could have been without sounding like a song of despair. But two tracks featuring John Cale on various instruments (such as viola and harpsichord) have the dark fragility of Pink Moon: the lovely Fly is a fragile apparition, and Northern Sky is a dreamy, brooding plea for long-lasting love.

Track Listing

1. Introduction
2. Hazey Jane II
3. At The Chime Of A City Clock
4. One Of These Things First
5. Hazey Jane I
6. Bryter Layter
7. Fly
8. Poor Boy
9. Northern Sky
10. Sunday

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