Brian Wilson's 'That Lucky Old Sun' album due in September
Brian Alexander Wilson extends his personal and creative renascence of the stopping point tenner with an ambitious newly themed record album, "That Lucky Old Sun," a work to be released in September exploring the Southern California civilization that he helped specify musically in the sixties as the guiding creative forcefulness of the Beach Boys.
James Wilson also returns to his former group's longtime label, Capitol Records, for this project that comes on the heels of his completion in 2004 of his "Smile" album, which he shelved in 1967 because of mounting personal and pro problems.
"Brian Wilson is an iconic talent with enormous musical influence all all over the earth and we are real proud to be representing him," said Guy wire Hands, executive chairman of Capitol's parent company, EMI Music. Custody and other EMI and Capitol executives are scheduled to seem with Wilson today at Capitol's headquarters in Hollywood for the dinner dress annunciation of their renewed partnership.
"That Lucky Old Sun," slated for button Phratry. 2, got its world premiere last Sept in London's Royal Festival Hall, the lapp venue where he unveiled the finished "Smile" after aborting it 37 years in the beginning.
"Smile" had been wide anticipated as a match to the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Ball club Band" as a dramatic advance in pop music of the time. Later its belated release in 2004, "Smile" landed at No. 2, slow Kanye West's "The College Dropout," among the Village Voice's across the country poll of pop music critics on the year's best albums.
"That Lucky Old Sun," written by Wilson in collaboration with "Smile" lyrist Caravan Dyke Parks and Wilson's latter-day dance band penis Scott Floyd Bennett, features an "interwoven series of 'rounds' with interspersed spoken scripture," its composer said in a statement released today.
It comprises a serial of narratives with the dominicus, voiced by Sir Angus Wilson, as the storyteller of a series of snapshots of life in Southern CA.
Reviewing the Greater London operation, England's Mojo magazine called it Wilson's "to the highest degree ambitious new work since returning from the wilderness, [recalling] 'Pet Sounds' and 'Smile,' non least in its playfully baroque arrangements -- a vacation spot rioting of orchestral bells, tympani, string section and harmonies entirely played with a smile -- and melodic nods to the Beach Boy canon, complementing the autobiographical set of the lyric-book."
Edward Osborne Wilson, 65, and his band ar scheduled to bring in "That Lucky Old Sun" to hometown audiences in a string of trey performances September. 12 to 14 at the Hollywood Roll.
randy.lewis@latimes.com
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