Bobb Trimble - Harvest Of Dreams CD : Release Information

Bobb Trimble - Harvest Of Dreams. CD. (Secretly Canadian - SC163) Official 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 (somewhere between Marc Bolan and Sparks, as one critic opined) 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.4 bonus tracks.

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