Beautiful Story, A

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:43:03
Personnel includes: Andrew Sandoval (vocals, electric & 12-string guitar, piano, Hammond B-3 organ, bass); Jim Lapesa (vocals, drums); Matt Lederman (acoustic guitar); Dave Pearlman (steel guitar); David Jenkins, Dan Schwartz (bass); Ric Menck (drums, tambourine, maracas). Personnel: Andrew Sandoval (vocals, guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, piano, grand piano, harpsichord); Matt Lederman (electric guitar); Dave Pearlman (steel guitar); Kristian Hoffman (grand piano, harpsichord); Jon Brion (grand piano, harmonium); Peter Holsapple (organ); Ric Menck (drums, cowbells, maracas, tambourine, percussion); Steve Frothingham, John Convertino, Robbie Rist, Jim Laspesa (drums); Danny Benair (hand claps). Audio Mixer: Brian Kehew. Photographer: Vicki Berndt. Arranger: Roger Neill. Andrew is Andrew Sandoval, a pop historian and archivist with an instinctive understanding of '60s music tropes. These beautifully catchy and heartfelt orchestral pop songs have enough winsome vocals, baroque orchestrations, plaintive minor-key melodies and lyrical heartache to be a long-lost follow-up to the first Bee Gees album. Echoes of many '60s artists abound here, but what's remarkable is that it's not merely the sum of its influences. Andrew doesn't appear to be interested in recreating records from the '60s, but in using elements of '60s music in a more personal songwriting style. The first-person lyrics focus almost exclusively on the downside of love ("Unrequited Life" is probably the key song title), and in this context, the hints of folk-rock guitar or sunshine-pop harmonies gain an added emotional heft. An orchestral-pop masterpiece.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)