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Bobb Trimble : Harvest of Dreams (UK,1982)->
Bobb Trimble’s two first albums surely are worth discovering. They have a very individual expression, and the subtle-fragile emotional high voice surely is worth discovering. It reminds me of other unique voices like David Surkamp from Pavlov’s Dog. Especially the song “If words were all I had” is an absolute classic (-it has a strange half minute or so of painful silence after it?) until it continues with an equally nice part, with trippy moments-), and the song after that, “Premonition Boy”. Although the fundament has a usual song structure it has strange switches and trippy moments and original sounding arrangements with its own individual complexity. “If words were all I had” also has a strange few minutes of painful silence after it? before it continues. On side B only seemingly a female vocalist participate as well (but I was told there is not). Here the music is even more esoteric and individual (fuzz guitar, rock, strange cloudy twists and turns, perfectly glued collages of recorded music) compromising with strong focused less unusual but fitting with the concept emotional and weird-cynic song expressions with a whole range of depth of the same kind of expression : from obvious sounding songs mixed and arranged towards a weird otherworldly atmosphere, which ends as soon as it dragged you completely in.
Can’t wait for the reissue of his first album from 1980. Bobb also published another album in 2002 (see beneath this review). Kris Thompson, representative of Bobb Trimble told me this is a bootleg reissue taken from a well preserved copy of the LP.
Secretely Canadian Bobb Trimble : Harvest of Dreams (UK,1982)***°°
Lucky for Bobb he finally found a belated interest in the reissuing both of his albums. The booklet gives a fine introduction by Florent Mazzolini, who also explains how Bobb made some tracks with a group called The Kidds, which actually seemed to have been a real young boys band, a cooperation which lasted until the parents got too anxious and suspicious why a 23 year old would spend so much time with them (some photographs of the Kidds sessions are included). Actually, four tracks on this album were done together with this 12 year old Kidds band, and not least for some of his finest moments ! For this reason Bobb in the early eighties, must have felt pretty much outside the time’s perspectives, Florent Mazzolini compares, for its emotional outsiderness, Bobb to Jandek and Daniel Johnston, a reference which I prefer not to be associated together with, for the last two are true outsiders in all senses, (and both are rather anti-musical and asocial too), while Bobb Trimble for me just is different, and could have been understood well if people would have taken notice.
It is not directly mentioned, but I have the impression the music is remastered. The music sounds a bit sharper and clearer too. This sound makes the album for a large part less weird than I expected and also, more beautiful than ever. The uniqueness of his voice I would still prefer to compare it in nature to David Surkamp and his band Pavlov’s Dog, even when he’s completely different, the same kind of rich emotionality is there. The beautiful “If Words were all I had” in the liner notes are compared to Jackson C.Frank's “I want to be alone”. It still is weird to have that silence after this song, making this song linger on in the mind, until the instrumental after this seems to echo this last track, and with various songs after this, sound like logical additions. The weirdest track, and the real change in the album is the more punk-garage-like Kidds track, “Oh Baby”, from which I understand this first track better now, and with a smile. But with the harder edged playing on “Paralyzed” as well as “Another Lonely Angel” I felt uncomfortable, and I wish there were more effects on it. I guess for these tracks I missed the distortion and blur of a vinyl recording. They sound too sharp and confronting, I preferred to skip them after a while this time. For the largest part this album still remains very special to me, and one of my favourite song albums. For the moment after just one new listen I just didn’t know what to do yet with the last bit, which I guess will need to grow again on me.
Three demo tracks were also added, of which especially the concluding one, “Life is like circle” with fuzz and amplified guitar (and seemingly electronic effects of is this sputtering fuzz ?) is a welcome surprise and a nice and perfect completion.
