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LIFE 029LP
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Reissue, originally released in 1972 on the small imprint Westwood Recordings. Here is another magical achievement of the early '70s counterculture. Songs Of Sunshine has an intimate, predominantly acoustic flavor. Flutes, chimes, and gentle organ sounds all over the place. Tales of faraway lands, sand, sea, castles, kings, queens, and even Peter Pan dominate the scene, imposing a sort of ancestral feel. Rob Armstrong, the leader of Music Box, became a renowned luthier and you can hear the care and love of the acoustic guitar in his music. The short-lived British folk trio released just this single before vanishing. The album consists of nine acoustic folk tracks of their own material and the Bob Dylan's classic "Tom Thumb Blues".
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RR 162CD
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"On first hearing Songs of Sunshine by British outfit Music Box, you could be forgiven for thinking of it as an album out of its time when it originally appeared in 1972 on the obscure Westwood label. Wasn't this the era of volume & arenas? Echoes of the mid '60s folk rock boom, and whimsical lyrics with a twist of Dylan (his "Tom Thumb's Blues" is the only non-original song on the album) were perhaps at odds with the sounds of that era. Whatever the reasoning, the album quickly disappeared... shame. Here is an album about a more intimate, predominantly acoustic music. Flutes, chimes, and gentle organ sounds. It spins tales of faraway lands, sand, sea, castles, kings, queens and even Peter Pan. Bet you thought only Donovan made 'em like that? Songs of Sunshine is incense & innocence, folk rock 'n' flowers! Well played, tastily arranged... and overlooked. But that was then, and things change.... we're now probably far enough away for the mid '60s to be the early '70s anyway, and if you can remember those times, well, you weren't there, as the saying goes...or something like that. Music Box not only belong at last, but are right on time for reissue too. Radioactive proudly presents Songs of Sunshine here on CD for the first time."
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