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It's A Beautiful Day - It's A Beautiful Day (1969) {2001, Reissue}

It's A Beautiful Day - It's A Beautiful Day (1969) {2001, Reissue}

BAND/ARTIST: It's A Beautiful Day

  • Title: It's A Beautiful Day
  • Year Of Release: 1969 / 2001
  • Label: San Francisco Sound #SFS 11790DA
  • Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock, Progressive Rock
  • Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Tracks+Cue+m3u, Log) / MP3 CBR320
  • Total Time: 00:40:19
  • Total Size: 235 / 109 Mb (Full Scans)
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It's a Beautiful Day is an American band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1967, featuring vocalist Pattie Santos along with violinist David LaFlamme and his wife, Linda LaFlamme, on keyboards. David LaFlamme, who as a youth had once performed as a soloist with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, had previously been in the group Orkustra playing five-string violin. The other members of It's a Beautiful Day in its early years were Val Fuentes (drums), Mitchell Holman (bass) and Hal Wagenet (guitar). Although they were one of the notable San Francisco bands to emerge from 1967's Summer of Love, the band never achieved the success of contemporaries such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Santana, with whom they had connections. The band created a unique blend of rock, jazz, folk, classical, and world-beat styles.

Although they are not one of the better-known San Francisco bands to have emerged from the ballroom circuit of the late '60s and early '70s, It's a Beautiful Day were no less memorable for their unique progressive rock style that contrasted well with the Bay Area psychedelic scene. Led by David LaFlamme (flute/violin/vocals) and his wife, Linda LaFlamme (keyboards), the six-piece unit on this album vacillates between light and ethereal pieces such as the lead-off cut, "White Bird," to the heavier, prog rock-influenced "Bombay Calling." One of the most distinct characteristics of It's a Beautiful Day is their instrumentation. The prominence of David LaFlamme – former violin soloist with the Utah Symphony and original member of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks – adds a refinement to It's a Beautiful Day's sound. Likewise, the intricate melodies – mostly composed by the LaFlammes – are structured around the band's immense virtuosity, a prime example being the exquisitely haunting harpsichord-driven "Girl With No Eyes." The noir framework, as well as lyrics such as "…she's just a reflection of all of the time I've been high," point rather candidly to the hallucinogenic nature of the song's – if not the band's – influences. The same can be said of the languidly eerie "Bulgaria." The almost chant-like quality of the track slowly crescendos into an hypnotic and dreamlike sonic journey – led by LaFlamme's brilliant violin work. By virtue of being a Bay Area fixture in the late '60s, It's a Beautiful Day could also easily double as a hippie dance band – which they can also execute with great aplomb – as the wildly up-tempo "Time Is" amply proves. It's a Beautiful Day remains as a timepiece and evidence of how sophisticated rock & roll had become in the fertile environs of the San Francisco music scene.

~ Lindsay Planer, All Music

Track List:

01. White Bird [6:10]
02. Hot Summer Day [5:49]
03. Wasted Union Blues [4:08]
04. Girl with No Eyes [3:52]
05. Bombay Calling [4:29]
06. Bulgaria [6:15]
07. Time Is [9:39]

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