California

Artist: Perry Blake
Label: Naive
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 822186414125
EAN: 0822186414125
ASIN: B0000CBLAA

Release Date: 2003-10-21

California

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Tracks:

This Life
California
Pretty Love Songs
Saying Goodbye
Road to Hollywood
How Can the Knower Be Known?
Ordinary Day
Face in the Crowd
Morning Song
Venus of the Canyon

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Customer Reviews:

Superb Euro Rockamantic Music.......2004-10-23

While traveling to Spain, I came across this great album at FCN, which reminded me alot of Brian Ferry's "Avalon", but this is a much better conceived CD, as well as a top notch studio recording. Excellent songs, great lyrics, and great voice. I live in the Caribbean, and sailing at night, this music inspires the traveling through the islands..., the stars, the wind, good wine, some spirits and beautiful female companion. It is really music from the gods... Enjoy!

Amazing.......2004-08-07

I heard about Perry Blake and this album on NPR. The clips they played inspired me to go online and buy it that very day. It has become one of my favorite CDs of all time. It gets better with each listen. I especially love the trumpet sequence in the title track. It's definitely one you won't regret buying.

quietly beautiful.......2003-12-13

i was looking for information on Scott Walker (another brilliant artist) and i came to a sight which recommeneded Perry Blake as a modern day Scott Walker singing romantic songs with lush orchestration. That is rather a stretch as the styles are really not similar at all. Nevertheless the music is beautiful. Scott Walker's music was always over the top and sometimes brash, this is subtle with a sense of chill out soft electronic music. Lyrically it is nice to hear songs with the familiar theme of lonliness which pervades almost every Scott Walker song. They differ however in that Scott's visions seemed more theatrical, often telling complete stories from beginning to end. Perry's lyrics come out in a gentle flowing stream that may be hard to grapple on to...but the music is so pleasing that i could not picture it or would want it any other way. I can't really compare it to another album i have in my collection though i feel it is similar musically to something like "Blue 6's "beautiful tommorow" with maybe a little hint of the Divine Comedy, Nick Cave, the Blue Nile and Jeff Buckley. Its really hard to pinpoint and thats the charm.

if you love music..........2003-12-11

Perry Blake is one of those artists who can make you fall in love at the time you first hear him, just like Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake or Rufus Wainwright! Perry's California album is beauty all over and i'm forward to see i'm live, cause yes...i had the chance of seing Perry Blake live here in Portugal some three years ago, and it was in fact one of those moments you can't forget. Just for people who really understand music. Be well

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