Record Review: Van Dyke Parks, "Arrangements, Vol. 1"
By DJ M on September 22nd, 2011
In Miscellaneous Music
PITCHFORK "The compilation is curated by VAN DYKE PARKS himself, drawing on what he calls 'my earliest studio adventures in the 60s.' The roster of collaborators represented here is dizzying-- Little Feat, Arlo Guthrie, Sal Valentino, Bonnie Raitt singing calypso-- and hearing Parks' unifying hand presiding over this collision of styles makes for a wonderful way to experience the art of his arrangements; their lushness, their invention, how they provide the texture and teeth to a composition."