An Invitation

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:38:38
Personnel: Inara George (vocals); Van Dyke Parks (accordion, piano); Grant Geissman (guitar, mandolin); Songa Lee, Michele Richards, Amy L. Hershberger, Kimberly Harmon, Becky Bunnell, Radu Pieptea, Joel Derouin, Kirstin Fife (violin); Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Suzanna Giordono, Karen Elaine, Larry Corbett (viola); Jamie Pedrini, Steve Kujala (flute); Peter Nevin, Geoff Nudell (clarinet); Joe Meyer (French horn); David R. Stone, Dominic Genova (upright bass); Don Heffington (percussion). Audio Mixers: Dan Long; Brad Haehnel. Recording information: Sunset Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA. Illustrator: Mike King. Photographer: Autumn de Wilde. Arranger: Van Dyke Parks. On 2008's AN INVITATION, vocalist Inara George (The Bird and the Bee) collaborates with renowned arranger/multi-instrumentalist Van Dyke Parks (Brian Wilson, the Byrds) for a buoyant album of orchestral indie-pop. The swooning symphonic aesthetic of Parks is fully on display during these 13 songs (see the dreamy "Right as Wrong" and the stately "Rough Design"), though George, the daughter of late Little Feat frontman Lowell George, is never outshined. In fact, Parks's deft string, woodwind, and horn ornamentation perfectly complements George's warm voice and literate lyrics, making AN INVITATION a fine inclusion to the chamber-pop canon.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)