Discover America
Album • Jan 01 / 1972 • 16 songs, 37m 12s • 93%
Calypso
Art Pop
Popular
Highly Rated
8.5
/ 10
Last year, the seminal American composer and arranger put out Arrangements, Vol. 1 on his Bananastan label. He has now reissued 1968's towering Song Cycle, 1972's calypso-themed Discover America, and the 1975 songbook record Clang of the Yankee Reaper.
Van Dyke Parks is one of a handful of artists possessing a purity of vision that graces every project he is involved with.