Name: Five Leaves Left (Remastered)
Brand: Drake
SKU: 213428
Price: 31.97 NZD
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Rating: 5 (5 reviews)

Five Leaves Left (Remastered)

By Nick Drake

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Format

CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Release Date

6 May 2003

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Album: Five Leaves Left (Remastered)
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Time Has Told Me	More Info...	4:24
2)	River Man	More Info...	4:18
3)	Three Hours	More Info...	6:12
4)	Way To Blue	More Info...	3:08
5)	Day Is Done	More Info...	2:26
6)	' Cello Song	More Info...	4:45
7)	Thoughts Of Mary Jane	More Info...	3:18
8)	Man In A Shed	More Info...	3:52
9)	Fruit Tree	More Info...	4:46
10)	Saturday Sun	More Info...	4:03

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EAN

0042284291521

Writer

Nick Drake

Producer

Joe Boyd

Country

USA

Studio/Live

Studio

Guest Artist

Richard Thompson; Danny Thompson

Label

Drake

Dimensions

14.2 x 1.2 x 12.4 centimetres (0.06 kg)

Performer Notes

Personnel: Nick Drake (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano); Richard Thompson (electric guitar); Clare Lowther (cello); Paul Harris (piano); Tristan Fry (vibraphone, drums); Danny Thompson (bass); Rocki Dzidzornu (congas).
Nick Drake's debut album encapsulates a marriage between folk music and the singer-songwriter genre. Part Donovan, part Jim Webb, he articulated an aching romanticism at a time when progressive rock ran rampant. Beautiful melodies and fragrant accompaniment, in particular Robert Kirby's stunning string arrangements, enhance the artist's sense of longing in which warm, but understated, vocals accentuate the album's passive mystery. An aura of existential cool envelops the proceedings, accentuated by Danny Thompson's sonorous bass lines and Drake's poetic imagery. The result is a shimmering, autumnal collection, reflective but never morbid. It's a tragedy that Drake never lived to see how his stature has grown.

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly (5/12/00, p.24) - "On his ageless debut, everything - Drake's lispy voice and delicate guitar fingerpicking, arranger Robert Kirby's stately strings - feels shrouded in mist....Drake's most glorious miniatures." - Rating: A

Q (11/99, p.162) - Included in Q Magazine's Best Folk Albums of All Time - "...The pinnacle of a melancholy canon of work so distinctive that admirers can only speculate miserably on what might have been."

Alternative Press (3/01, p.88) - "...With a voice paradoxically feather-light and grave, [one] of the most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded..."

Q (Magazine) (p.122) - "[T]he mesmerising beauty of such songs as 'Way To Blue' and 'Time Has Told Me' perfectly evoke a world of peaceful rumination far from all the city madness."

Mojo (Publisher) (7/00, p.99) - "...Represents the first flourish of promise....God, how damn confident it all sounds. He knew how good he was..."

NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #74 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'

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By Paul on October 7, 2008

This is an incredible album, very unassuming, with subtle lyrical mastery and perfectly produced.

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By Peter on June 16, 2007

Saturday's Sun is reason enough for this album! Nick Drake was tr4ule the pioneer and original master of this laid back style, I only wish I was alive to experience it in person.

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By Peter on June 16, 2007

A happy day it was I discovered the music of Nick Drake. This is the debut album of this eccentric and unique folk stylist. Simplistically beautiful, each tune has its own personality and nuances to make you keep coming back this album time and time again for continuos appreciation. If you like the finger styled guitar playing of players like Jose Gonzalez then do yourself a favour and discover where they found their inspiration.

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By Mark on May 13, 2006

How can a 19 year old make a debut album of such intense beauty filled with music and lyrics of great experience and knowledge? I don't know - but I know I'm jealous. This a masterpiece folk album of music by one of the greatest musicians that ever died too far before his time. Nick Drake made three albums before he died - they are ALL brilliant - and that's an understatement. This is the first of those three. Do yourself a favour and go and get them all and listen to them to all to death - because I bet even then you will still want to keep playing them again and again.

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