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DRAKE TIMELESS MAGIC
On the night at the end of November 1974, Nick Drake paid attention to the Brandenburg Concertos, ate a midnight bowl of cornflakes and overdosed about the medication that was supposed to rescue him in the darkness into which he'd been retreating in the final years. His mother found him in the morning, dead at 26.
All of those other world had to wait a couple of years to find him, but once it did, Drake achieved the kind of success that eluded him in everyday life. The three albums he earned barely sold before his death. The few live appearances he made didn't help, although, at some point, he was on a bill with Country Joe the Fish. At another, he went on tour to promote among his records, but it didn't work out and he came home early.
A couple of years after his death, Drake's music started to catch on. People were covering him. Others were buying his albums. I was told that he'd become a cult figure, a standing fed by his sad biography and by a too-facile sense of music.
I recall reading about Drake when he finally hit. I purchased the 3 albums at once, listened to them after which slipped them into the piles of vinyl LPs I'd eventually give away. I don't remember my a reaction to the background music back then. It just didn't seem to be exciting. Some of it brought to mind . Later, when I'd rediscovered Drake, I had been amazed at what I'd missed before.
Millions of people "find" Drake at some point in their lives,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and maybe many find him too soon. They recognize the oversaturated great thing about "Made to ," whose opening lines are: "I was created to love no one, nobody to like me/ Only the wind in the long green grass/ the frost inside a broken tree/ I had been made to love magic." If you pay attention to Drake since you feel you recognize his loneliness, or perhaps allow his biography to see the background music, you'll miss why is him deserving of his posthumous success.
It is usually true, as says in "Nick Drake: The Biography," that the "fundamental flaw" in Drake as a composer was "the adolescent obsession with loneliness and also the wherewithal to communicate, which betrays his extreme youth when he wrote the songs." The phase Drake is at when he wrote his early songs is one that many people undergo, but the problem, as Humphries sees it, was that the phase "became home, and he stayed there way too long."
But,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], regardless of the sometime callowness of theme, addititionally there is extraordinary sophistication in Drake's music, first in the compositional structure, in how the vocal line often flirts with the guitar foundation, runs ahead a little, then turns back; and in the surprising lyricism, in how the words can hold fast one moment towards the simplest of rhyme schemes, and soar the following toward Byronic heights.
One must also acknowledge the quality of his two instruments, his guitar and his voice. Virtually everyone who ever performed with him was astounded in the sureness of his finger work, his capability to wrench emotions, wry commentary,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], an ideal echo of a sad line from the strings of his guitar. In addition to his inability to communicate with an audience, a lot of Drake's live performances fizzled because he devised odd tuning schemes for each of his songs. When he finished one number, the crowd would have to wait patiently while he retuned for the next,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and few audiences were willing to wait patiently.
Additionally, there are Drake's voice, an airy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], detached tenor that seems so often like sung sighing. Humphries also points out that Drake arrived on the British music scene at any given time when most pop singers were applying Americanized pronunciation for their lyrics. Not so Drake,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who's almost defiantly British in his diction on most of the surviving recordings. The notable exceptions are to be found largely on the bootleg "Tanworth-in-Arden 1967-68," which features Drake singing Dylan, Gershwin and his own songs, often within an Americanized accent.
Finally, Drake's songs still captivate since they're so varied. Some of the songs seem rooted in old English folk music, such as "Northern Sky" and "River Man," while others appear to have leaped from the review,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like the cheeky send-up from the rich and the removed, "Mayfair." And, despite Drake's popular image like a moody loner, a few of the songs are actually happy.
fans will debate forever which are the best songs and what are best albums to possess. Of course, the fundamental three are essential because the foundation, but you can't obtain a sense of Drake if you buy just one of the three. There is both a musical and, unmistakably, a biographical arc in the three albums.
The very first, "Five Leaves Left," is within many ways probably the most accessible and demonstrates Drake at the height of his powers as a guitarist, composer and singer. It includes some of the greatest Drake songs: "Time Has Told Me," "River Man," "Fruit Tree," "The Thoughts of " and " 'Cello Song."
The 2nd, "Bryter Layter," using its dopey '70s-kitsch cover - an oval photo of Drake looking at a chair with guitar, his shoes in front of his feet - is more heavily produced, with backup singers, brass, violins, flute tracks, instrumental cuts ("Sunday") that almost seem like elevator music. And yet, it is,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], of course, the masterpiece from the Drake oeuvre by many accounts, thanks to cuts for example "Northern Sky,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," among Drake's most hauntingly beautiful numbers, and also the waterfall of notes that opens "," a song whose inventiveness rises above the brass-heavy arrangement.
By the time Drake made "Pink Moon," he wasn't capable of setting up the number of tracks demanded in the earlier albums. Drake is at full psychological retreat by then, a process augmented by drugs. The majority of the last record is Drake and the guitar. His diction may also be slurred and his vocals, which frequently danced around pitch anyway, sometimes wander even more. The album contains among the strangest of all Drake tunes, the instrumental "Horn,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," as well as the gentle finale, "From the Morning," whose lyrics range from the line: "Now we rise and that we are everywhere."
Those words are carved on the back of the headstone Drake now shares with his parents within the church graveyard within the English village of Tanworth-in-Arden. Drake's father, Rodney, died in 1988; his mother, Molly, in 1993.
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