Darlin by darian sahanaja biography
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The Resurrection Of Brian Wilson&#;s SMiLE
The Beach Boys' SMiLE album was to have been the pinnacle of Brian Wilson's groundbreaking recording and production achievements — but it was never completed. This year, in an extraordinary tale of emotional drama, tape-vault archaeology and recording technology, Brian finished it, debuted it live, and then re-recorded it in the studio. SOS brings you the full story
In , at the age of 24, Brian Wilson hit a creative peak in his musical career that most of us can only imagine. His enormous success with the Beach Boys had already afforded him the artistic freedom to work however he chose. In , he was one of the first artists to wrest control of his career from the Beach Boys' record label Capitol. He began to produce the group's records himself, and spurned Capitol's own inferior facilities in favour of the cream of Los Angeles' independent recording studios, such as Western Recorders (now Cello), Goldstar and Sunset Sound. Over the following three years, his records grew ever more instrumentally elaborate, to the point where the other Beach Boys could no longer provide him with the musical backing he needed to realise the advanced arrangements in his head. Instead, he came to rely on a crack team of the best session musicians in Los
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A GUEST POSTING FROM BRIAN
JC writes:-
I really hope you&#;ve all enjoyed this past week of guest postings. I&#;ve a couple more ICAs of my own in the pipeline which I&#;ll eventually get round to. In the meantime, it seems appropriate to have Brian round things off given that he got things going so fantastically a few days back.
Following up The Sugarplastic with one more L.A.-based power-pop band from the &#;90s. You probably know Wondermints as the backbone of Brian Wilson&#;s talented band. You may also know keyboardist Darian Sahanaja as the maestro that helped Wilson reconstruct the most famous lost album of all time, &#;SMiLE.&#; He was the perfect man for the job, too. Sahanaja and fellow Wondermint Nick Walusko had been obsessed with the album since the early &#;80s, but I digress. Wondermints were seemingly born to back Brian, but before all of that, they were pop purveyors in their own right, releasing four fantastic indie albums and a few self-released tapes I&#;ll attempt to sum up here.
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&#;And Penny Knows&#;
In the early &#;90s, Sahanaja and Walusko were sharing a four-track, passing it back and forth and playing their projects for each other. Like many unsigned bands at the time (Pixies come to mind), Wondermints made color-coded cassett
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