Series of 6 New 45rpm
7" Singles
by Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Arrangements, Volume 1
Van Dyke Parks Presents
The Mighty Sparrow —
Hot and Sweet
Van Dyke Parks Presents
The Esso Trinidad
Steel Band
Van Dyke Parks with Britten Sinfonia to play special one-off London show to coincide with the reissue of three of his most visionary albums...
Van Dyke Parks confirms his latest European Tour schedule: Dates announced from June 3 to September 8...
"Van Dyke Parks on NPR Mountain Stage" —
Mountain Stage Radio Show episode was broadcast on May 4...
Read on and listen to the show...
'Music Man Murray' is premiered on Documentary Channel. VDP provides the score...
We announce the next two Singles in the series...
'The All Golden' and 'Missin' Missippi'...
Welcome to Bananastan Records......
"Liner notes for Van Dyke Parks' new recordings...
"These releases — the first of six 45s, with sleeve art by eminent artists — are Van Dyke Parks' first commercial solo recordings since the 1998 Warner album Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove (an excellent introduction, by the way, to The Man and His Music).
"Since 1998, Parks has been heard on record countless times as an arranger, co-writer, and collaborating musician (with Inara George, Joanna Newsom, Ringo Starr, Rufus Wainwright, and Brian Wilson, among others).
"In 2010 Parks toured for the first time in Europe and North America; in 2011 he has played in Europe and Australia. And now he's recording on his own terms, with vinyl available by subscription, in a project he describes as 'Nouveau Niche'.
"These singles return the listener to a last-century experience: listening to a song, studying the sleeve art, and getting up to flip the record. Here is true high-fidelity: the superior sound of music on vinyl, and the work of a musician following his own idiosyncratic path."
Introduction by Michael Leddy, July 2011
