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Seals & Crofts ‎- Summer Breeze (1972) US 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz

Posted By: Fran Solo

Date: 1 Sep 2019 14:45:36

Seals & Crofts ‎- Summer Breeze (1972) US 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz

Seals & Crofts ‎- Summer Breeze
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Label: Warner Bros. Records/BS 2629 | Released: 1972 | Genre: Country-Folk

A1 Hummingbird 4:35
A2 Funny Little Man 3:10
A3 Say 2:34
A4 Summer Breeze 3:24
A5 East Of Ginger Trees 3:46
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B1 Fiddle In The Sky 3:32
B2 The Boy Down The Road 4:28
B3 The Euphrates 4:16
B4 Advance Guards 4:12
B5 Yellow Dirt 5:14

Arranged By [Strings] – Marty Paich
Backing Vocals – Dee Higgins, Donnie Shelton
Banjo – John Hartford
Bass – Harvey Brooks, Joe Osborn, Wilton Felder
Bass, Flute, Clarinet – Robert Lichtig
Congas – King Errisson
Drums – Jim Gordon, Jim Keltner, John Guerin, Russ Kunkel
Flute – Jim Horn
Guitar [Steel] – Red Rhodes
Music By, Lyrics By, Vocals, Guitar, Fiddle, Saxophone – James Seals
Music By, Vocals, Mandolin, Electric Guitar, Piano – Dash Crofts
Piano – Clarence McDonald, John Ford Coley, Larry Knechtel, Michael Omartian, Mike Lang
Producer, Electric Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals – Louie Shelton
Tambura, Tabla – Milt Holland

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This Rip: 2014
This LP: From my personal collection
Cleaning: RCM Moth MkII Pro Vinyl
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Cartridge: SHURE M97xE
Amplifier: Sansui 9090DB
ADC: E-MU 0404
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Summer Breeze offered an unusually ambitious array of music within a soft rock context – most artists tried to avoid weighty subjects in such surroundings (except, of course, CSN or Simon & Garfunkel, who could pretty much get away with anything). The title track is one of those relentlessly appealing 1970s harmony-rock anthems, in the same mode as the Doobie Brothers' "Listen to the Music" and appropriately ubiquitous on the radio and in the memory; the guitar (electric and acoustic) and vocal hooks are all well-nigh irresistible. The rest varies in sound and focus. "Hummingbird" quotes from the Baha'i scriptures and has a segmented structure with a chantlike opening and a sharp change in tempo, which didn't stop it from becoming a hit, and for all of its beauty, the soaring Marty Paich-arranged orchestral accompaniment, highlighted by lofty strings and a gorgeous horn part, never eclipses the core sound of the duo's singing and their acoustic guitar/mandolin combination. "Funny Little Man" mixes understated harmonies and acoustic instruments into an extended break that could almost pass for a classical piece. "Say" asks a lot of serious philosophical questions amid its rapid beat and playful tone. "East of Ginger Trees" is a hauntingly beautiful excursion into more Baha'i scripture, with delectable harmonies, a gorgeous mandolin part, and one of the most exquisitely restrained uses of orchestra of its era. "Fiddle in the Sky" shifts the album into purer country territory, while "The Boy Down the Road" moves listeners into a country-folk vein with a spookily melodramatic tale. "The Euphrates" picks up the tempo, providing an upbeat take on the meaning of life that loses none of its inherent sense of wonder. "Advance Guards" has that same sense of wonder, conveying it in a slower, more luxuriant setting, and the record ends on a rougher-hewn note with the more beat-driven, electric guitar-heavy "Yellow Dirt." Summer Breeze was the most highly regarded of all of Seals & Crofts' albums, a fact reflected by its reissue as part of the all too short-lived Warner Archives series in 1995, which also accounts for its far better than average sound.
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