Venice mating call

"Even those long convinced that Tim Buckley ranks among the 20th century's most innovative singers and musical visionaries will find these newly-discovered tracks from manager Herb Cohen's vaults a jaw-dropping revelation. Culled from the five sets performed over two September 1969 days at LA's Troubadour that produced 2001's Live At The Troubadour, they further affirm that, like other great jazz singers, Buckley never sang a song the same way twice, reaching for unknown heights as his telepathic band coloured in his iridescent vapour trails".

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"Attractively presented and well recorded, Venice Mating Call and Greetings From West Hollywood will be lapped up by Buckley completists and should appeal to casual fans of Happy Sad and Blue Afternoon. Issuing this music as two separate 1CD and 2CD packages does seem an unnecessarily pedantic way of making it available, though, especially as the sets duplicate two songs ("Blue Melody" and "Chase The Blues Away") and share identical sleevenotes. Wouldn't an all-embracing 3CD release have been a more sensible idea? But then, if everything in the world made sense, Tim Buckley would still be alive".