Minnie Riperton | Come to my Garden | Album

Minnie Riperton "Come to my Garden" (1971)

LP (NEW) - Vinyl, Not Now Music, UK, 2017, NOTLP254, 5060348582540, 180g Green Translucent Vinyl, Reissue

Come to my Garden was the debut studio album by Minnie Riperton. Borrowing from soul, orchestral pop and psychedelia in equal measures and seemingly unscathed by commercial considerations, on Come To My Garden Minnie follows a more organic, pastoral and ultimately more genre-busting path than during her later, more commercially successful period with Capitol Records. Also, her voice seems more in tune with the arrangements and is generally less affected, putting her often multi-tracked whistle register to chilling use as what sounds like a human woodwind instrument, which is best exemplified on "Completeness". On the evidence of this utterly delicious recording, Riperton clearly has been a major influence on vocalists such as Kate Bush and Alison Goldfrapp. With a crack studio band of Ramsey Lewis, Phil Upchurch and Maurice White, the sound is enhance by sensitive orchestral arrangements by Charles Stepney. Stephney’s work here is on a level of Burt Bachrach’s best with a beautiful hint of darkness, always offset by Minnie who brings a smile to the tears. One of the few gifted human beings to be blessed with a whistle register, each track has Minnie pulling off the most unimaginably beautiful melodies with the most breathtaking nuances. This is a magical album.

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