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| Format: | | LP Want this on CD also?
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| Condition: | | IN SHRINK (Cover / Media) More Info |
| Label: | | columbia Masterworks LONG OUT OF PRINT |
| Country: | | Usa |
| Released: | | 1975 |
| Genre: | | PSYCH / FLOWER POP |
| Num In Set: | | 1 |
| Barcode: | | N/A |
| Quantity: | | 1 in stock |
| Seller Ref: | | M.S. |
IN SHRINK $6 SHIP PAY-PAL (USA ONLY) OVERSEAS WESTERN UNION/ /POSTAL MONEY ORDER 20$(NO PAY-PAL)NON REGISTERED SHIPS CUSTOMS VALUE FRIENDLY PACKAGED ~ PLEASE E MAIL ME AFTER SALE 4 INSTRUCTIONS ~ SEE FULL SELECTION OF METAL CD'S JUST ADDED AT UNDER $6 (COMBINE SHIP & SAVE)
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IN SHRINK SWINGLE II (2) LOVE SONGS FOR MADRIGALS 1975 FLOWER POP PSYCH LP ~
SELDOM SEEN (NO CD EVER ISSUED) LONG OUT OF PRINT ~ 1975 COLUMBIA " MASTERWORKS " M 33013 USA ISSUED VERSION ~ NOT A CUT OUT ~ BOTH LABELS AS MINT ! ~ VINYL APPEARS TO HAVE HAD LITTLE (TOO NO) PLAY HISTORY ~ WILL NEED A LITE MICRO FIBER WIPE BEFORE PLAY DUE TO 20 + YEARS IN PRIVATE PVC PROTECTED STORAGE ~ NO RING WEAR ~ NO SPINE DAMAGE (BASICALLY AS NEAR NEW (ONLY SEAL HAS BEEN OPENED) STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK ...
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The original Swingle Singers, founded in Paris in 1962, disbanded in 1972 and Swingle moved to London where he re-formed a new group made of (mostly) young British singers. Swingle with his original French band had invented a unique style, wordlessly scatting, or rather (since none of it was improvised) "dee-duming" the great instrumental hits of Classical music (and jazzifying them through a jazz rhythmic section of double-bas and drums). I've contended in my reviews of their albums of that era that the reason why it was so endearing is because, by so doing, they returned those great masterpieces of instrumental music to their very essence: the human voice, and made into high art what we all do, inadvertently, without even thinking about it, in our daily lives, washing the dishes, walking the dog, gardening, vacuuming, ironing, showering: humming our favorite tunes. The Paris Swingles had rarely strayed from that style, tackling songs only in their 1968 Christmas album () and their 1969 album of American traditional and popular music (American Look) - but still dee-duming them. But the new, London Swingle moved on, or back, to singing vocal music, presumably encouraged by the schooling of his youg singers in the great British choral traditions. "Love Songs for Madrigals and Madriguys", recorded in 1974, was the first album of the new ensemble - now called Swingle II - tackling madrigals in French, English, German and Spanish from the late-15th to the early-17th Century.
Not that the new Swingles got back into the fold and became just another one of those excellent "a cappella" British vocal ensemble, like the King's Singers or so many others (there's a great tradition for that in the UK). What Swingle retained from the Paris period was the notion of jazzifying the classics through the use of an instrumental accompanying ensemble playing on modern instruments. Only, here, it is no more jazzifying but "popsifying", pouring a serving of pop music gravy over the viands of 15th-to-17th Century madrigals. You might have thought that the LP's punning title, "Love songs for madrigals and madriguys", was just hip and hype (the UK release went by the more anonymous "Madrigals"), but in fact not at all, it's a fair representation of the record's contents. No more jazz double bass and drums - goodbye, 1950s and 60s Saint-Germain des Prés, hello swinging 1970s London - but bass guitar, drums, synthesizers and keyboard (the two latter played by Swingle himself, a trained classical pianist before he became a singer) - under the pretense that, back then, "instruments were often used in performance, both as accompaniment and in doubling voice parts". The result could have been hateful, the worst of both worlds, classical music desecrated and bastardized by watered down pop music of the most commercial kind. In fact it's lovely, because the beauty of the originals remain but the accompaniment - always tasteful and discreet - could easily make you think that they were, indeed, pop music ballads written in the 1970s, reminding you of all those songs "in medieval style"
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