Mixed Greens

Description

In 1994, Allen Clapp and his Orchestra surprised the world with “One Hundred Percent Chance of Rain” — an album he recorded on a battery-powered four-track cassette deck in the bedrooms, churches and VW vans of Northern California. Transforming expectations yet again, the Allen Clapp of 2012 leads listeners into virgin forests and blazing, New World sunsets with “Mixed Greens” — an adventure in soundscapes and song-craft sparking with palpable energy. Clapp somehow navigates 70s Nashville, Rundgren-esque soft-rock and slick Eurodisco with a Brill-Building songwriting prowess that unifies his vision for the future of pop. Created at his own Silicon Valley-based Mystery Lawn Studio, Mixed Greens is an entirely new breed of cat. "Picnic At The Hermitage" is a sweeping instrumental whose piano and synths, floating on a thin bed of industrial noise, turn the unwrapping of sandwiches and the opening of a jar of fresh ants outside Andrew Jackson's ancestral home into a cinematic moment (or maybe it's the museum of the same name in St. Petersburg, Russia, who knows?). "Downfall No. 3" has something of the right-hand turn Brian Wilson once made when he ditched surf 'n' psych for the soulful sounds of "Wild Honey." "All Or Nothing" adds something new to the morning weather report: an overriding sense of melancholy. And the majestic "Treeline," with its stepladder modulations and heart-wrenching vocals, leads the man into virgin forests and blazing New World sunsets.This is the music Allen Clapp was born to create.When sold by .com, this product will be manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. .com's standard return policy will apply.