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Tracklist
| Come Here Woman | 4:09 |
| I Woke Up | 4:02 |
| Monterey | 4:30 |
| Moulin Rouge | 1:57 |
| Song To The Siren | 3:20 |
| Jungle Fire | 4:42 |
| Starsailor | 4:36 |
| The Healing Festival | 3:16 |
| Down By The Borderline | 5:22 |
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domcat53
May 21, 2016
referencing Starsailor, LP, Album, Pit, WS 1881
I think there's nothing else like "Starsailor" in the entire Buckley discography... Even the rather inaccessible "Lorca" doesn't prepare to THIS, his most avant-garde LP by far ! There are bits of free-jazz, epileptic funk, hallucinated chorales (listen to "jungle fire" !), & of course Buckley's voice which has never been so free... "Starsailor" (the song) is kinda "musique concrète" for voice & tape manipulation, closer to Berio or Ligeti than rock or folk.
But the songs are short, and there is a rhythmic fever & an orgiastic feeling, especially on side 2, that make an "easier" listening than the morose "Lorca" with its 6 to 10 mn songs.... and of course there's "Song to the siren" !
But the songs are short, and there is a rhythmic fever & an orgiastic feeling, especially on side 2, that make an "easier" listening than the morose "Lorca" with its 6 to 10 mn songs.... and of course there's "Song to the siren" !
Euphonics
November 8, 2015
referencing Starsailor, LP, Album, Pit, WS 1881
Okay, I'm not going to claim some 'higher ground' as an arbiter of musical truth. I'm not going to say that I "get" this album and give it a 10/10 as I've seen many music reviewers do.
Honestly, I don't love it, and think that it can be pretty hard to listen to. …But that's not to say that he didn't have something remarkable going on here. Where most vocalists would emit what resemble hunger pangs and confused wailing in an arena like this, Tim's astounding register hits every note with an emotive composure hardly ever seen with such clarity. It's captivating to hear the product of an artist so unbound and freewheeling.
Intense, beautiful at times, and thoroughly different, this album is an absolute trip.
Honestly, I don't love it, and think that it can be pretty hard to listen to. …But that's not to say that he didn't have something remarkable going on here. Where most vocalists would emit what resemble hunger pangs and confused wailing in an arena like this, Tim's astounding register hits every note with an emotive composure hardly ever seen with such clarity. It's captivating to hear the product of an artist so unbound and freewheeling.
Intense, beautiful at times, and thoroughly different, this album is an absolute trip.
comsat38
August 29, 2012
referencing Starsailor, LP, Album, STS 1064
On the label, below the main Straight cat. no. is the Warner cat. no. WS 1881. This does not appear on the sleeve at all. First UK pressing.
gaztodd
July 1, 2011
referencing Starsailor, LP, Album, Pit, WS 1881
Tim moves away from language into a whole other world of speaking in tongues over the course of this album. There are twists and turns and banshee wails but when it gels this album just ROCKS in a free jazz/ folk/ rock mashup. Full of beauty and bewilderment in equal measures, you dig. Abominable that it is not currently available on CD.
MountEerie
January 27, 2017