DINO VALENTI (DINO VALENTE) / ディノ・ヴァレンテ (ディノ・ヴァレンティ) / DINO VALENTE / CD

アメリカンACID FOLKの大定番!!!

初期のQUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICEへの参加、「ヘイ・ジョー」(ジミ・ヘンドリックス)、「ゲット・トゥゲザー」(ヤングブラッズ)の作者としても知られるシスコ・ロックのカルト・ヒーローDINO VALENTEが68年にリリースしたACID FOLKの最高傑作ソロ。

DEVENDRA BANHARTファンにもぜひ手を出して欲しい一枚です。

ボーナス・トラック2曲収録!!

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RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2005 Fascinating enigma of the San Francisco psychedelic scene, Valente is most famed as the author of the song Get Together. This definitive '60s love-and-peace anthem was recorded on the Jefferson Airplane's first album, and taken into the Top Ten by the Youngbloods. Valente was an original member of Quicksilver Messenger Service, and his one off solo single in 1964, a folk pop song called Birdses became the inspiration for Gene Clark to name his new band the Birdses, amended of course, to the Byrds, because of his admiration for Valente's single In 1968, following a spell in jail for drug possession, he got a deal with Epic Records, recording an album produced by Bob Johnston (most famous for overseeing much of Bob Dylan's classic '60s output). It was idiosyncratic even within the psychedelic community. Valente sang elliptical, stream-of-consciousness hippyisms without much in the way of narrative, beginning, or end, but with an evocative lyricism. The accompaniment is mostly stripped down guitar playing pleasingly haunting minor folk-jazz acoustic chords, swelled by wads of studio reverb. Mojo's 67 Lost Albums You Must Own article included this album: 'On leaving Quicksilver Messenger Service after changing his name to avoid the taxman, the chemically deranged but incredibly charming Dino Valente knocked off this beautifully elongated acoustic ramble, then promptly disappeared. Emotional, aching and gloriously daft in places, its stream of lo-fi consciousness spawned generations of bedroom strumming by moody suicidal peaceniks. All a bit intense on the surface, it's wonderfully engaging even today. (DH)' RPM make this album available once again with this timely re-press and in a package with an insightful essay by Nina Antonia. In the current climate of Devendra Banhart, James Yorkeston et al, Valente sounds neither out of place nor out of time.

1. TIME
2. SOMETHING NEW
3. MY FRIEND
4. LISTEN TO ME
5. ME AND MY UNCLE
6. TOMORROW
7. CHILDREN OF THE SUN
8. NEW WIND BLOWING
9. EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE OK
10. TEST

SESSION TRACKS
11. SHAME ON YOU BABY
12. NOW AND NOW ONLY