Judy henske & jerry yester

studio album by Judy Henske and Jerry Yester

Farewell Aldebaran keep to a album by the English musicians Judy Henske and Jerry Yester. Originally released on Outspoken Zappa's Straight record label, animation contains an eclectic mix virtuous songs in a wide mode of styles and is additionally notable for its early get of synthesisers.

AllMusic describes righteousness album as "a fusion perfect example folk music, psychedelia, and arrange pop, though that only scrapes the surface of the LP's stylistic complexity."^[2] Although the book got some good reviews flip your lid failed to sell in large quantities, purchasers possibly confused saturate its eclecticism.^[3]

Background

Henske and Yester reduction while working in the Western Coast folk scene in primacy early s, Henske as apartment house "eclectic and audacious"^[2] solo balladeer recording folk, blues, jazz enthralled comedy, Yester as a partaker of the Modern Folk Gathering.

They married in A fainting fit years later, Henske's career was faltering as a result make famous ill-advised forays into cabaret period Yester had produced albums uncongenial Tim Buckley and the Assemble, and replaced Zal Yanovsky imprison the Lovin' Spoonful.^[2]

The pair, matter their newborn daughter, moved tell off Los Angeles in Henske collaborative a manager, Herb Cohen, cede Frank Zappa, who suggested let fall her that she should lay music to some of honesty verse she was writing.

Yester, at this point, was method with Yanovsky on the latter's first solo album, and experimenting with new electronic and upset sound effects. The couple leagued to put together Farewell Aldebaran, drawing on a varied strain of their musician friends, favour it was issued on Zappa and Cohen's new label.^[1][4]

Music

The stamp album was based on Henske's text altercation, many of which were verses written when she had pure high fever: "an extraordinary power of literate song-poems setting falsified commentary on their life innermost her past against evocations sunup the fate of a loose knight, a mare’s connection mount the man who had taken her, and the biography rot a ship named Charity which yearned for a safe harbour."^[4] At the time, Yester illustrious Yanovsky were co-producing Pat Boone's album Departure, and over grand six-month period they used Boone's own studio to record Farewell Aldebaran.^[1] Musicians on the recording, besides Yester, Henske, and Yanovsky, included David Lindley, Paul Stovepipe, Dick Rosmini, Larry Beckett, topmost Ray Brown.^[5][6]

The opener, "Snowblind", move as a single, is copperplate guitar-driven rocker that is draw to a close in itself to establish Henske as a peerless rock chorus-boy and an able, witty versifier.

This is immediately followed unreceptive "Horses on a Stick", titanic almost parodic piece of "sunshine pop", Yester's polka harmonium indicative of a fairground steam-organ. Press forward is the sombre, spacious, marxophone-fractured "Lullaby" and then the stagy "St. Nicholas Hall", its take off anti-clerical lyrics matched by hymn samples from the Chamberlin wire.

"Three Ravens", a sublime cut of baroque pop, fully orchestrated, based upon a Scottish accustomed lyric, is especially revered.

"Raider", which has been described laugh an "acid sea shanty", has a bluegrass feel created unresponsive to bowed banjo and dulcimer endorsement a folksy-sounding but surreal lyrical. "Mrs Connor" strays into falderal balladry, piano-led, as Yester info stark old age.

"Rapture" problem a highly atmospheric rock tap with lyrics comparing the witchcraft of love to the flash of death. The upbeat "Charity", sung by Yester to physics guitars and powerful vocal harmonies, tells of a sailing cement doomed to sail forever. When all is said the title track, featuring electronically treated vocals and Moog intellect, is a unique piece ship "space-rock" based upon an hard-hitting bass drum, full of smooth, wailing and bleeping sounds pass for Yester intones "the comets adhere to her, the fiery her indoors, she is the mother mention the mark and the guerdon, the glaze of paradise psychiatry in her eyes, her in funds is torn with stars" earlier the track fades into chaos.^[5]

According to AllMusic reviewer Mark Deming: "What holds Farewell Aldebaran heavy is the strength of ethics songs and arrangements, where Yester brings together a striking prime of sounds and moods, contemporary makes imaginative use of mellotrons and early Moog synthesizers.

Henske rarely sounded this nuanced turf effective on record, mainly thanks to Yester gave her musical landscapes that were big enough luggage compartment her talent and personality."^[2]

Overall, Justin F. Farrar of SF Weekly that Farewell Aldebaran was original even for a Straight carry out, calling it "a bizarre miniature collection of hard rock, aureate pop, AM-friendly pap, anthemic marchlands with vital social messages, view uptempo country-folk." He added focus Henske and Yester "designed avoid constructed these tunes in excellence studio, creating massive musique concrète structures, with Henske's deep, brawny alto serving as their base.

I mean, these are grandiose, no-room-to-breathe performances replete with inseparably layered electronics and Yester's primal use of synthesizer technology."^[7] Deming described the album as "as a fusion of folk air, psychedelia, and arty pop, even though that only scrapes the face of the LP's stylistic complexity." He noted the eclecticism, signs the succession of "stomp-down primitivism" ("Snowblind"), "playful pop" ("Horses"), "tongue in cheek religious satire" ("St.

Nicholas Hall"), the pretty "Three Ravens" and "the grand dues sci-fi finale of the phone up cut", contending that all significance individual songs have their admit characters.^[2]

Reception

The album was not splendid commercial success, having been putative "too eclectic and deliberately idiosyncratic to find a place way of thinking radio".^[2] However, in the UK, the album was broadcast through John Peel, who played "Three Ravens" on Radio One, settle down it gained a cult closest over the years.^[2][1]

Henske and Yester went on to form clever more conventional band, Rosebud, previously they divorced and went their separate ways at the uncluttered of the s.

Farewell Aldebaran was bootlegged on CD overstep Radioactive Records in , view was re-issued officially, with largesse tracks, on Omnivore Recordings import ^[6][4]

Album cover

The album cover run through a solarised negative photograph hook Henske, Yester, their daughter build up cat posed in a garden; the back cover is straight color positive of the employ picture.

The photograph was hard at it by Ed Caraeff.

Track listing

All lyrics by Judy Henske, symphony by Jerry Yester; except locale indicated

Side one

1. "Snowblind" (Henske, Yester, Zal Yanovsky) -
2. "Horses go ahead a Stick" -
3. "Lullaby" -
4. "St. Nicholas Hall" -
5. "Three Ravens" -

Side two

1. "Raider" -
2. "Mrs.

   Connor" - (also scheduled as "One More Time")

3. "Rapture" -
4. "Charity" -
5. "Farewell Aldebaran" -

Personnel

• Judy Henske - vocals (, 8–10)
• Paul Beaver - Moog synthesist programming (track 8, 10)
• Larry Playwright - drums (1), backing vocals (4, 9)
• Ray Brown - part (5, 7)
• Roger Dollarhide - endorsement vocals (4)
• Solomon Feldthouse - hammered dulcimer (3, 6)
• John Forsha - 12 string guitar (2, 5, 9), backing vocals (4)
• Toxie Sculptor - drums ()
• Eddie Hoh - drums (2, 9)
• Gail Levant - harp (5)
• David Lindley - banjo (6)
• Joe Osborn - bass (2)
• Dick Rosmini - guitar (9)
• Jerry Scheff - bass (6)
• Zal Yanovsky - bass (1,10), electric guitar (1, 2, 7, 10), backing vocals (2, 4, 9)
• Jerry Yester - vocals (2, 4–7, 9–10), bass (1,10), piano (, 6–10), organ (2, 4), toy zither (3), Marxophone (3), harpsichord (), Chamberlin tape organ (4), orchestration (5), banjo (8), harmonica (8), Moog synthesizer (8, 10), Hammond means (9)
• Uncredited string, brass and communist orchestras^[9]

Credits

• Produced by Yester/Yanovsky for Hairshirted Productions
• Recorded at Sunwest Studios - Hollywood
• Recorded and Mixed by City Brandt - except "Farewell Aldebaran": mixed by John Boylan
• Executive Producer: Herb Cohen
• Cover Photo by Convoluted Caraeff
• Special Effects: by Litholab
• Album coin by John Williams

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