EMI Int'l
2005
Sunshine Superman
About This Album
This re-release of Sunshine Superman might well be titled "The Ultimate Experience," or "The Total Immersion Version" -- expanded to 67 minutes, it contains a new 24-bit remastering of the U.S. version of the album (the U.K. version, though it contained Donovan's preferred cover art, was compromised in its content by its extended delay in release, into the following year, owing to legal wrangling of the artist's management and recording contracts in the U.K.), plus seven chronologically related bonus tracks, "Breezes of Patchulie," "Museum" (in an early, lighter-textured version than its officially released recording from the next album), "Superlungs" (in the first of three distinctly different renditions); the longer stereo mix of "Sunshine Superman," and four never-before-heard tracks -- "The Land of Doesn't Have to Be" and demo versions of "Good Trip" and "House of Jansch." The upgraded sound is a wonder, bringing out the full nuances in the playing and overcoming the compressed sound with which American audiences have had to put up with on the U.S. version of this album for decades -- coupled with the sheer diversity of sounds, from the bold psychedelic pop of the title song to the reflective folk of "Legend of a Girl Child Linda," to the raga-folk of "Three Kingfishers" and "Ferris Wheel," the bluesy resonances of "Bert's Blues," and the ominous, full-electric sound (with the band, and the electric guitars especially, right in your face here) of "Season of the Witch" -- the latter's tone may suddenly remind you, just a little bit, of "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield, and considering how much time Donovan had spent recording in L.
Track List (try tracks 2,3,4,5 and 7)

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