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SINGSONG PR NEWS: Appleseed RecordingsDonovan - Beat Café Press reviews
Donovan’s latest release, “Beat Café”. If you, like me, would like to experience the Bohemian café culture atmosphere, then go and buy this album, you won’t be disappointed. Hugh McKay
UNCUT October 2004 Donovan BEAT CAFE appleseed recordings *** Return after eight years' silence from '60s legend Beat Cafe takes up where '60s classics such as "Sunny Goodge Street" left off...It's great to have him back. Nigel Williamson
South Hams Newspapers DONOVAN: Beat Cafe (Appleseed) Donovan's first album for adult listeners in eight years, this finds him exploring a fascinating hinterland of folk and soft smoky jazz...the man is back and on top form. Friday August 20, 2004
Hip to the beat Donovan is back with his first 'grown-up' album in eight years - and his vision of bohemian utopia is irresistible John L Walters Friday August 20, 2004 The Guardian Donovan was always the pop craftsman par excellence...Beat Cafe taps into the boho vein of folk, jazz and poetry that flowed long before the first summer of love...
Beat Café, By Andy Gill 20 August 2004 ...his most satisfying album in ages just as their star is in the ascendant...most of these 12 tracks are cool bohemian ruminations, sketched in languidly oozing double bass and subtle percussive tints by the dream rhythm section of Danny Thompson and Jim Keltner, the latter also adding the gentle clunk of vibes, with producer John Chelew's keyboards fleshing out the space around Donovan's acoustic guitar and trademark vibrato susurrus.
BEAT GENERATION ...the "beat cafe" of today, Donovan notes, is more "a state of mind," or "a virtual beat cafe" a la arts/culture Web site getunderground.com. "The actual cafe may have passed into history, but I still want to promote the bohemian idea of the '60s -- the rediscovery of the roots of folk music and the power of poetry married with the pop world." Reuters/Billboard
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