He was pleased with Cale's involvement and production, and believed the song would be commercially successful. However, Island Records did not release it as a single and the accompanying album, like its predecessor, did not receive marketing support, and failed to sell.
In response, having tried his hand at lush arrangements, he responded with the sparse and bleak, voice and guitar only final album Pink Moon , which received limited release before his death in In the s the track was pivotal in resurrecting interest in Drake's music which was, by then, largely forgotten. Biographer Patrick Humphries describes the song as "the finest Again sounding alone and vulnerable The accompaniment by the classically trained Cale reflects Drake's desire to move away from the pastoral sound of his debut album Five Leaves Left , which was a commercial failure.
Cale's own career was similarly in tatters; he had been fired from the Velvets by Lou Reed two years earlier, and was yet to re-establish his reputation as a formidable producer. Drake sought to broaden his own appeal and tentatively agreed to Boyd's suggestion to include bass and drum tracks on recordings for Bryter Layter , and to experiment with a more pop or jazzy sound, which Boyd admitted he imagined would be "more commercial".
Trevor Dann believes that the contrasting approach of the two men produced accompaniment that is "opulent without overpowering the fragile little song". The song was probably written during Drake's brief period of living in Hastings with John Martyn and his wife Beverley. We had a tree in the garden across the pavement — hence the line, 'Smelt sweet breezes at the top of a tree.
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There is no real evidence for this however, and he was at the time friendly with a number of women. He had platonic friendships with both Sophia Ryde and Beverly Martyn, with whom he was particularly close, although neither of these relationships developed.
Although he does not appear to have developed his drug habit further, it has been suggested that his tastes developed after his contact with Cale, who was struggling with a heroin habit. After Bryter Layter failed to sell, Drake rarely left his flat, and then only to play an occasional poorly-attended concert or to buy drugs. Boyd was at the time working as co-producer with John Cale on Nico 's Desertshore album.
Boyd sent the recently ex- Velvet Underground member a demo recording of a few of the tracks that were to form Bryter Layter. I have to meet him, where is he right now. It was very difficult to figure what was going on in his mind. He made music with a real sensuality — very different from English folk music".
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He arranged a recording session for the following day, on the condition that Cale would be allowed to add accompaniment to the tracks. Cale improvised piano, celeste, and Hammond organ parts on "Northern Sky", and viola and harpsichord arrangements on "Fly". In his biography of Drake, Trevor Dann describes Cale's contribution as infusing the tracks with a "subtlety that Robert Kirby's full-blown arrangements didn't quite match on some of the other tracks [on Bryter Layter]. Boyd noticed Cale was strongly leading the direction of the recording, but that as the songs were reforming, Drake gradually seemed to gain trust in his judgment.
Due to Darkthrone's sudden change from death metal to black metal, Peaceville was unwilling to release the album as it was. The shocked record label had expected that the band would continue recording death metal in the vein of Soulside Journey. Peaceville agreed to release the album only if they were able to remix it, stating that the sound was "too weak".
The album was released by Peaceville on 26 February The first CD pressing was limited to 2, copies and had a white disc.
It was remastered and reissued by Peaceville in , as well as being repackaged in a cardboard digipak. The second chapter of a four-part video interview spanning the first four albums with Fenriz and Nocturno was also included.
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A Blaze was reissued again by Peaceville in December as a double gatefold LP on gram vinyl, limited to 2, copies. In his retrospective review of the album, Eduardo Rivadavia from AllMusic gave A Blaze 5 out of 5 stars, calling it "a classic whose almost indefensibly lo-fi standards would reinvigorate an entire strain of black metal". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved 11 August Under a Funeral Moon - Darkthrone.
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