The Making Of Five Leaves Left
New box set containting studio out-takes and previously unheard songs!

The Making Of Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

€ 118,95
  • box set
  • 4 x LP
Label
Island
Expected release
25 July 2025
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Description

This box-set features studio out-takes and previously unheard songs that tell the story of how Nick Drake’s debut album came to be released on Island Records in July 1969. The set includes his first ever session at Sound Techniques – found on a mono listening-reel which Beverley Martyn had squirrelled away over fifty years ago. It also contains the full reel recorded at Caius College by Cambridge acquaintance Paul de Rivaz which had lain in the bottom of a drawer for decades, accompanying him and his family around the world.

The Making Of Five Leaves Left will feature full recording details, charts and the recording history across an illustrated 60 page book. The book, printed on special textured paper-stock which is 100% recyclable and biodegradable, was written by Neil Storey in collaboration with Richard Morton-Jack.

Tracklist

A

  • 1.Mayfair - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 196802:19
  • 2.Time Has Told Me - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 196803:41
  • 3.Man In A Shed- 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 196803:10
  • 4.Fruit Tree - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 196803:34
  • 5.Saturday Sun - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 196802:51
  • 6.Strange Face - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 196803:38

B

  • 1.Strange Face – Rough Mix with Guide Vocal – September 196804:28
  • 2.Day Is Done – Take 5 – April 196803:17
  • 3.Day Is Done – Take 2 – November 196802:43
  • 4.Day Is Done – Take 7 – April 196902:29
  • 5.Man In A Shed – Take 1 – May 196803:06
  • 6.My Love Left With The Rain – Cambridge, Lent Term 196803:50

C

  • 1.Blossom – Cambridge, Lent Term 196804:24
  • 2.Instrumental – Cambridge, Lent Term 196801:39
  • 3.Made To Love Magic – Cambridge, Lent Term 196805:28
  • 4.Mickey's Tune – Cambridge, Lent Term 196803:23
  • 5.The Thoughts Of Mary Jane – Cambridge, Lent Term 196804:24
  • 6.Day Is Done – Cambridge, Lent Term 196802:48
  • 7.Time Has Told Me – Cambridge, Lent Term 196802:38

D

  • 1.Three Hours – Take 2 – November 196804:24
  • 2.Time Has Told Me – Take 4 – November 196804:41
  • 3.Strange Face – Take 1 – November 196804:12
  • 4.Saturday Sun – Take 1 – November 196804:26
  • 5.Fruit Tree – Take 4 – November 1968 04:55

E

  • 1.Time Of No Reply – Take 3 into Take 4 – December 196802:55
  • 2.'Cello Song – Take 4 – January 196904:51
  • 3.Mayfair – Take 5 – January 196903:30
  • 4.River Man – Take 1 – January 196905:12

F

  • 1.Way To Blue – Cambridge – Winter 196802:52
  • 2.The Thoughts Of Mary Jane – Take 2 – April 196903:32
  • 3.Saturday Sun – Take 1 into Take 2 – April 196904:57
  • 4.River Man – Take 2 – April 196904:41

G

  • 1.Time Has Told Me04:27
  • 2.River Man04:28
  • 3.Three Hours06:12
  • 4.Way To Blue03:05
  • 5.Day Is Done02:22

H

  • 1.'Cello Song04:49
  • 2.The Thoughts Of Mary Jane03:12
  • 3.Man In A Shed03:49
  • 4.Fruit Tree04:42
  • 5.Saturday Sun04:00

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