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THE DONOVAN ARCHIVE presents HMS DONOVAN

  • The second release of THE SEVENTIES COLLECTION as a Digital Download on iTunes.


    “The HMS DONOVAN sessions were part of those long months of 1970 I seemed to live in Morgan Studios with Mike Bobak and Robin Black at the Studio desk.

    I just dove into my tradition again and created tune after tune for poems I had found and many of my own lyrics  too. To create song after song for the imagination. They were so-called childrens’ songs, but they are more than this. They are for the adventure you are on. The journey that always leads to where you have always been.

    You will meet Lewis Carrol, Edward Lear, and a strange poet called Lucy Diamond (I wonder if young Julian Lennon heard of her when he drew that drawing that became a song).

    Mostly acoustic on this album, I travelled with my guitar, deep into the magic, so come along with me again on my great four-masted Faery Galleon, HMS DONOVAN.“ (Donovan)
     
    The digital release of the original 1971 album “HMS DONOVAN“ will be August 5, 2010.
    More information and release dates will be published on www.DONOVAN.ie

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  • http://nolongerbythinking.blogspot.com/ Larry Gilman

    HMS DONOVAN: one of the great Donovan albums, a feast of what I always think of as “those Donovan chords” with the mystical vibe . . . and humorous, too. Here is no self-serious navel-gazing, but an evocative and varied pop romp of the first water. There's even a lick of rock'n'roll for all us kosmic kiddies (“Homesickness”).

    Thank you, Donovan, for this and all the rest.

    I didn't comment on Open Road's re-release — but it is so very fine — a sound as rich, thick and crunchy as a 6-inch-tall BLT sandwich — Donovan, was there anything else release-worthy from your sessions with those superb musicians, which you describe in your book as continuing after the album was cut?

    Please please me and release Ritual Groove, oh please do . . .

  • http://nolongerbythinking.blogspot.com/ Larry Gilman

    HMS DONOVAN: one of the great Donovan albums, a feast of what I always think of as “those Donovan chords” with the mystical vibe . . . and humorous, too. Here is no self-serious navel-gazing, but an evocative and varied pop romp of the first water. There's even a lick of rock'n'roll for all us kosmic kiddies (“Homesickness”).

    Thank you, Donovan, for this and all the rest.

    I didn't comment on Open Road's re-release — but it is so very fine — a sound as rich, thick and crunchy as a 6-inch-tall BLT sandwich — Donovan, was there anything else release-worthy from your sessions with those superb musicians, which you describe in your book as continuing after the album was cut?

    Please please me and release Ritual Groove, oh please do . . .