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Het betreft hier de versie uit 2000 + Bonus Tracks / CD



Duncan Browne's melancholy first album, Give Me Take You -- released on music impresario Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label in 1968 -- is one wonderfully tender album. Many who only discovered it well after its original release are compare its dulcet introspective tone to Nick Drake's albums. It does fall into a similar English folk vein, though Browne's arrangements are, on the whole, more Baroque, giving the album a semi-classical, regal feel. Browne charted his own classical arrangements and wrote out vocal charts for a choir, but turned to his art school friend David Bretton for song lyrics. It's Bretton's lovely Pre-Raphaelite style phrases, used here in the guise of lyrical content, that fans of this album often react strongly to, one way or another. True, there's a youthful innocence and melancholy that comes off as somewhat naïve sounding, mawkish, and awkward in our modern age -- "Better a tear of truth than smiling lies" is one example -- but this is a minor quibble. Immediate issued only one single from the album, "On the Bombsite," but it failed to connect with listeners. At the time of its release, Oldham's Immediate was reportedly falling apart. He was in financial ruin and reportedly cut the sessions short to save money. The album remained out of print until 2000, when it was issued for the first time on compact disc by the U.K.-based Castle imprint, this time with five bonus tracks dating from Browne's early-'70s sessions when he was recording for the Bell label.



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Label: Immediate


01. Give Me, Take You
02. Ninepence Worth Of Walking
03. Dwarf In A Tree
04. The Ghost Walks
05. Walking You, Pt.1
06. Chloe In The Garden
07. Walking You, Pt.2
08. On The Bombsite
09. I Was, You Weren't
10. Gabilan
11. Alfred Bell
12. The Death Of Neil
13. On The Bombsite (Mono Single)*
14. Alfred Bell (Mono Single) *
15. On The Bombsite (Demo) *
16. Resurrection *
17. Final Asylum *