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John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes (1963, 1967) {Takoma TAKCD-8908-2 rel 1998}

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John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes (1963, 1967) {Takoma TAKCD-8908-2 rel 1998}

John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes (1963, 1967) {Takoma TAKCD-8908-2 rel 1998}
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© 1963, 1967, 1998 Takoma / Fantasy | TAKCD-8908-2
Folk / Contemporary Folk / Finger-Picked Guitar / Folk Jazz / Folk-Blues / Progressive Folk

Fahey recorded two versions of this album, one in 1963, the other in 1967; this deluxe reissue gives you both! This was his second album, and the first to get any kind of distribution (the re-record benefits from better fidelity); with compositions like When the Springtime Comes Again; Some Summer Day , and the epic America , it's essential.

This inspired collection reissues all the music from John Fahey's genre-expansive, groundbreaking 1964 disc Death Chants and its (mostly) rerecorded version from 1967. On both discs Fahey's finger picking is nimble and awe-inspiring, his head afire with ideas both revolutionary and musically pure. His goal was to reconcile a love for American primitive folk traditions and 20th-century classical music; by 1967 he'd largely succeeded. Death Chants is one of the most intense, life-affirming, and visionary recordings of the 1960s, and the clear (and thankfully not digitally messed-with) sound plus context-heavy, insightful liner notes by Byron Coley make the reissue a must even for folks who own the original artifacts.
Fahey recorded two entirely different versions of this record: one issued in 1963 and one mostly of re-recordings in 1967. The CD reissue of Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes does Fahey fans a massive favor by combining both versions onto one disc. Preceded only by the super-rare original version of Blind Joe Death, the 1963 LP of Death Chants was the first Fahey album to gain reasonably wide distribution. It's a work that beautifully displays both Fahey's virtuosity on folk and blues guitar and a distinct composing voice that draws much from folk and blues traditions, but is not quite part of either school. Fahey's gift for making music that's tranquil and evocative, but also with enough odd angularity and minor melody to give it depth and ambiguity, is evident right from the start, and heard to best advantage on "When the Springtime Comes Again," "Some Summer Day," and the epic "America." Even on the pieces with more straight blues connections, Fahey achieves a full and reverberant quality that sets it off not just from the average country blues revivalists of the period, but from vintage country blues itself. He takes a journey into the avant-garde with "The Downfall of the Adelphi Rolling Grist Mill," a creepy duet with flute player Nancy McLean. On the re-recorded versions that comprised most of the 1967 version of Death Chants, the fidelity is clearer, and having improved his technique Fahey probably felt more satisfied with these renditions. But as often happens on remakes, it must be said that the originals have an intangibly more affecting, more mysterious quality that does not come through as strongly on the more carefully executed rehauls.

Personnel:
John Fahey – guitar

Tracks
01 - Sunflower River Blues – 2:33
02 - When the Springtime Comes Again – 3:50
03 - Stomping Tonight on the Pennsylvania-Alabama Border – 6:58
04 - Some Summer Day – 3:20
05 - On the Beach at Waikiki – 2:55
06 - Spanish Dance – 1:53
07 - John Henry Variations – 5:40
08 - The Downfall of the Adelphi Rolling Grist Mill – 3:35
09 - Take a Look at That Baby – 1:25
10 - Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Philip XIV – 2:28
11 - America – 7:52
12 - Episcopal Hymn – 1:10
13 - Sunflower River Blues – 3:19
14 - When the Springtime Comes Again – 4:53
15 - Stomping Tonight on the Pennsylvania-Alabama Border – 5:36
16 - Some Summer Day – 3:25
17 - On the Beach at Waikiki – 2:40
18 - Spanish Dance – 2:05
19 - John Henry Variations – 5:11
20 - Take a Look at That Baby – 1:25
21 - America – 5:00
22 - Episcopal Hymn – 1:22

Notes
Tracks 1 to 12 originally released in 1963 as "Death Chants, Breakdowns And Military Waltzes" (Takoma, C-1003). The original cover of Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes was simply a white cover with black lettering of the title. Subsequent reissues included Vol. 2 in the title.
Tracks 13 to 22 re-recorded and released in 1967 under the same title and catalogue number.
In 1998, Takoma reissued both the original recordings and the later re-recordings on a single CD.

Original recordings produced by John Fahey.
Remastering by Kirk Felton at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley.


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John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes (1963, 1967) {Takoma TAKCD-8908-2 rel 1998}

John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes (1963, 1967) {Takoma TAKCD-8908-2 rel 1998}


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