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Tim Buckley: Artiste
During 1969 Tim wrote three albums - Lorca, Blue Afternoon, and Starsailor. Inspired after meeting the avant-garde musician Cathy Berberian, he gained the confidence needed to try to join the likes of Luciano Berio, Xenakis, and herself in the avant-garde rock movement of the time. The recording of Lorca signified the birth of Tim as an original and unique artist. He started to utilize his voices entire 5 ½ octave range, stretching it to new limits creating a style and sound unknown to popular music. However Lorca was a complete failure; fans were shocked by the violently different style of it, finding the vocal gymnastics too abstract and far removed from his previous folk-rock rooted albums. A lot of listeners found it too 'weird'. Commercially it flopped belly first, and Tim had to cave into demands from his record company to digress to his old music.
Reluctantly Tim produced unrecorded tracks for Blue Afternoon; halting his newly born form of singing and musical orchestration, stuck in a limbo between the old and progression. He performed the tracks without any zeal, and in a time when success relied heavily on live performances it sold badly. Instead he was eager to record his most complete original album, Starsailor.
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