Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks - Orange Crate Art [2LP/180G/25th Anniversary Ed]

As history would soon document, SMiLE became the most famous unreleased album in rock history, it’s “completion” not seeing daylight until a Grammy®-award winning box set in 2012. SMiLE’s original plan was to incorporate many different elements of American music in an avant-garde fashion, its musical format leaps and bounds ahead of anything that existed contemporaneously. As SMiLE quickly grew in legendary terms, Brian and Van Dyke each went their separate musical ways, only to reunite briefly in 1972 for The Beach Boys classic “Sail On Sailor.” So it was perhaps with great apprehension and excitement that these two musical giants should finally reunite in 1994 for some unfinished business. This time, however, the mission would be complete. The musical terrain familiar . . . a paeon to California . . . Omnivore Recordings is very proud to announce the release of the 25th anniversary special edition of Orange Crate Art by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks. By 1994, the roles had been reversed and it was Van Dyke who coaxed Brian into the studio to be the singer of nearly a dozen new songs he had written as a tribute to his home away from home.

- Disc 1 -
1 Orange Crate Art
2 Sail Away
3 My Hobo Heart
4 Wings of a Dove

- Disc 2 -
1 Palm Tree and Moon
2 Summer in Monterey
3 San Francisco
4 Hold Back Time

- Disc 3 -
1 My Jeanine
2 Movies Is Magic
3 This Town Goes Down at Sunset
4 Lullaby

- Disc 4 -
1 Rhapsody in Blue (Outtake)
2 Our Love Is Here to Stay (Outtake)
3 What a Wonderful World (Outtake)