a r t i s t : bobb trimble
t i t l e : harvest of dreams
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : Radioactive / RRCD120
g e n r e : Psychedelic Rock
r l s. d a t e : April / 2006
t r a c k s : 10
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 67,10 MB
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First ever CD release for this '80s recording, although it has
often been said of this highly personal and unusual album, it
is music very much of its own time. Musically, the album flits
from '60s-style pop to '80s new wave with psychedelic and
folk-rock influences also much in evidence, but it is
Trimble's idiosyncratic vocal style that really makes this
album stand out from the crowd. Trimble, who has been
proclaimed by some as the purveyor of the greatest psych folk
ever made, revels in sound effects ranging from echo to
phasing and flanging, all of which are used to twist and
distort his voice to create a trippy, ethereal mood augmented
by curious interjections such as telephone dial tones,
background talking, bouncing ping-pong balls, and even noises
from the '80s video game, Defender. The sum total of these
disparate parts is an album that defies description although
to conclude that Harvest Of Dreams is solely an attempt by the
artist to convey to the listener the often frightening sounds
that reside within his soul are misplaced, as there's an up-
beat message of hope and optimism running throughout. As one
fan wrote "Within two seconds of my first listen to Bobb's
music, I was transfixed and had that rare feeling that this
was music that could change my life, "Pretentious", possibly,
but any album capable of evoking such depth of feeling is
ignored at one's peril. Highly recommended
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01-Premonitions - The Fantasy [06:03]
02-If Words Were All I Had [04:24]
03-The World I Left Behind [02:10]
04-Armour Of The Shroud [07:32]
05-Premonitions Boy - The Reality [06:18]
06-Take Me Home Vienna [04:20]
07-Selling Me Short While Stringing Me Long [04:16]
08-Oh Baby [01:21]
09-Paralyzed [06:17]
10-Another Lonely Angel [05:03]
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47:44 min