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L'autre classique (éclectique) de Donovan, 6 février 2005
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Sixième album de Donovan, paru en 1968, de retour de son séjour indien avec les Beatles. Il résume de manière condensée et encore plus complète peut-être que "Mellow Yellow" tous les aspects de sa musique. En effet, réapparaissent ici des morceaux d'inspiration orientale ("Peregrine", "Tangier" au parfum marocain, "River Song" aussi beau et simple qu'un mantra), qui se mêlent à de petites vignettes folk-pop ("A Sunny Day", "The Sun Is A Very Magic Fellow"...), à de petites incursions dans des atmosphères plus jazzy ("As I Recall It" et "Get Thy Bearings"), à des joyaux pop ("Hurdy Gurdy Man" électrique, et "Jennifer Juniper" au délicieux arrangement acoustique) ... Vraiment, tout mériterait d'être cité et commenté, tant chaque chanson possède un je ne sais quoi de singulier, dans un registre cependant plus léger, dégagé que "Mellow Yellow". Un album d'atmosphère donc, au songwriting éclectique (un peu à la manière - mais la comparaison s'arrête là - du "Village Green Preservation Society" des Kinks), et une bonne porte d'entrée dans la discographie pop de Donovan.
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Donovan : 1968, 30 avril 2008
Ce commentaire fait référence à cette édition : Hurdy Gurdy Man (CD)
1968, Donovan est au sommet et c'est aussi l'année de l'album blanc de ses amis Beatles.
Cet album porté par d'excellents hits a un "coté album blanc", il y a de l'audace dans la publication de certains titres qui vont au delà de "simples" titres d'album, pourquoi pas !? et même si cet album est inégal, il reste très réussi, magique.
Les hits : le titre éponyme est pour moi le plus réussi des tubes qui ont au niveau populaire porté Donovan au sommet et l'autre "Jennifer, Juniper" est adorable.
Quelques morceaux ont cette fraicheur à la limite de la mièvrerie mais ils sont portés par un charme caractéristique, irrésistible de l'Auteur en cette deuxième moitié des sixties.
Mais préférés : "Get thy bearings" à l'excellent mise en place et ce ton que l'on qualifiera de Jazzy, "The sun is..." légèrement répétitif mais surtout "The river song" mieux que folk, quelque chose de plus vibrant encore.
Excellente chose que cette réédition remastérisée - je ne suis pas sûr que le son soit vraiment mieux, j'avais le vinyl, la simple édition CD mais cela était correct - augmenté de bonus et avec livret intéressant.
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The Hurdy Gurdy Man comes singing songs of love,, 20 septembre 2005
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The idea that Donovan Leitch was to Britain what Bob Dylan was to America was always an unfair comparison to make and you have to think if Scottish folk-pop singer's first name had started with any letter other than "D" he might have been saved the analysis. Then again, anybody who cannot listen to the music these two were putting out in the 1960s and not be able to see their music as being opposites is simply not paying attention. Donovan was always the cheerful optimist, while Dylan on a good day was merely being realistic instead of pessimistic. That was just in terms of their lyrics, because once you got to the music Dylan was defined by stark guitar playing sometimes augmented by a harmonica in the style of Woody Guthrie while Donovan was helping to define the psychedelic sound. In 1965 Donovan was a regular on the television music show "Ready, Steady, Go!" and then had his début single, the folk song "Catch the Wind." That was followed by the hit single "Colours," and then "Sunshine Superman" and "Mellow Yellow." In 1967 he traveled to India with the Beatles to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, after which he renounced drugs and turned on to meditation. Musically these profound changes manifested themselves in the ambitious double-album "A Gift from a Flower to a Garden" and then this 1968 album, "The Hurdy Gurdy Man." The scope of the album is covered in the two hits. The title cut (on which future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham were playing) is a mixture of Indian music with hard-rock, tinged with hallucinatory elements that made it to #5 on the charts. On the other extreme is the more ethereal "Jennifer Juniper," written for Jenny Boyd, the sister of George Harrison's wife, which climbed to #26. If you want to point to a Donovan song as epitomizing his sense of youthful innocence, this would be it. The only real problem with this album is that producer Mickie Most lays it on a bit too thick in several of the tracks. I like the first two tracks after the title cut, with "Peregrine," a song about friendship that has some Scottish elements in it, and the excellent acoustic song "The Entertaining of a Shy Girl," which offers some nice guitar playing and a touch of woodwinds. But then "As I Recall It" spoils the mood by overdoing the jazz bit. By the time you get to the rest of the album there is a real sense that Donovan has abandoned the stage set by the opening track. In addition to "Jennifer Juniper" there is another odd to the ladies in "West Indian Lady." Then there is an emphasis on nature elements at the end with "The River Song," "A Sunny Day," and "The Sun Is a Very Magic Fellow," which helps the album end on more familiar ground than on which it began. I was trying to decide if how good the best tracks on this album overcame the lesser efforts, and decided to round up because of "Get Thy Bearings" as the song that is not on the standard Donovan hits collection that would justify having this one as well. Telling this to a Donovan fan would be preaching to the choir and I am not arguing that "The Hurdy Gurdy Man" constitutes the one regular album you would want to have or first pick up when you moved beyond the hits collection. But this song has some of Donovan's better lyrics and if the sound had been catchier it would have made an interesting single. It has psychedelic elements, but there is also some jazz and blues, and some people might mistake it for a Stevie Windwood song, that is, until they listen to the lyrics, which is pure Donovan. This was already a five-star album so added six bonus tracks including "Lalena," "Colours," and "Catch the Wind," was hardly necessary but a nice touch.
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