Montage

Artist: Montage
Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 090771617224
EAN: 0090771617224
ASIN: B00005QZLJ

Release Date: 2001-11-06

Montage

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Tracks:

I Shall Call Her Mary
She's Alone
Grand Pianist
Men Are Building Sand
Desiree
The Song Is Love
Tinsel And Ivy
An Audience With Miss Priscilla Gray
My Love
Wak Up Jimmy (Something Is Happening Outside)
The Mirror
Thor And Or (Instrumental)
The Song Is Love (Insturmental)
Desiree (Instrumental)

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Album Description

From Sundazed Music, following his departure from the Left Banke, Michael Brown, the group's chief artistic force, as principal songwriter, arranger, and keyboardist, masterminded the Montage LP. Released in January 1969, Montage features more of the graceful baroque-tinged melodies, choral-density vocal harmonies, and creative orchestrations that are hallmarks of Brown's work with the Left Banke. This first-time CD release, direct from the original master tapes, features four previously unissued bonus tracks and liner notes by Richie Unterberger (Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll).

Customer Reviews:

This is a Must Have!.......2007-05-09

I've been Listening to this Album for over 30 years. What an awesome contribution to the 'Story Telling 60's' that has come to be the greatest music of all. I remember asking my grandmother who Priscilla Gray was. She said, 'ask your Uncle, he sang it! Thanks for the CD!

Great voices Great songs.......2007-01-27

I love this album. The first thing that struck me about the album besides Mike Brown's ability to create great songs was the vocals of Vance Chapman. The timbre and tone of his voice are distictive and unforgetable. Vance also has a great vocal range. It's apparant in all of his vocal work. Grand Pianist, Wake up Jimmy, I Shall Call her Mary to name just a few.

I do not completely understand why this album did not do better commercially. Perhaps a more eye catching cover? The back side of the record was actually a bit more interesting.

This is one record I can play from start to finish without skipping tracks and it is a favorite.

Bland band.......2005-10-13

Despite Michael Brown's involvement, this is just a failure. There is no excitement anywhere on these sessions. The Left Banke's two albums are great, but Brown's abandoning the Banke for this really seems like a step down. I've had this on vinyl and got rid of it, bought it on CD thinking maybe I'll like it this time, but no, there is just nothing going on here even remotely close to what The Left Banke did. Subtlety is one thing, but boredom is another. Montage is mostly the latter. It's not terrible, but there is a reason it bombed commercially; it's mediocre. And the cover art is just as unmemorable as the music. I disagree with another reviewer about the second Left Banke album, minus Brown (except for one track.) I think it's better than the first. But Montage? I'll pass (again).

So criminally underappreciated it makes me sick.......2004-11-17

Michael Brown & Harry Lookofsky are easily the greatest father-&-son musical team in the history of the universe. (Harry makes Murray Wilson look like one of Dennis Wilson's doo-dahs on a plate.) David Goodwin thinks that Montage beats The Banke. A tempting conclusion were it not for the fact that Montage's version of MEN ARE BUILDING SAND is far inferior to The Banke's version. But Goodwin turns out to be right despite SAND. This record has a loose-limbed spaciousness that gives it an edge over The Banke.

Montage's 2 versions of DESIREE are better than The Banke's. THE MIRROR is such an obvious low-key masterpiece that I can barely restrain myself from slapping around Brown with a tire iron for having the temerity of leaving it off the original record.

SHE'S ALONE is a classical-music art-song (god I hate that term). Like the kind churned out on an assembly-line basis by the unlistenable Ned Rorem. SHE'S ALONE is pretty good, though. And the all-too-brief instrumental break is downright brilliant. (Including Harry's goofy quotation of IT AIN'T NECESSARILY SO in the strings.)

THE SONG IS LOVE is a perfectly fine piece of hackwerk that struts its stuff with a hilariously mod-a-go-go harpsichord. GRAND PIANIST is musically fabbadelic but lyrically self-referential and (even worse) self-congratulatory. It's music about music--and I hate that shtick more than life itself.

My favorite track is probably TINSEL AND IVY. Although what infuriates me is the fact that I can never remember how it goes. I can never recollect it in my memory. (The way I *can* when it comes to any particular krapwerk by Barry Manilow, for instance.)

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