Inara George - An Invitation (with Van Dyke Parks)

Artist: Inara George | Van Dyke Parks
Title Of Album: An Invitation
Year Of Release: August 12, 2008
Label: Everloving
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Vocal, Indie Pop


An Invitation is an intimate collaboration between Inara and legendary arranger Van Dyke Parks. The result is a lush, elegant, fully orchestrated song cycle, a catalog of experiences equally inspired by the sophistication of Frank Sinatra and the storied, cinematic wonder of Richard Sherman’s oeuvre. Throughout the record, Van Dyke’s cerebral (psychedelic, even) arrangements twist the music into multiple directions at once, a swirling canvas suspended over the sonic mantelpiece of Inara’s songs, bewitching and perplexing, a truly organic achievement among friends in an era of artificial pleasures.

01 Overture 02:22
02 Right As Wrong 02:26


03 Accidental 03:01
04 Bomb 03:18
05 Duet 02:37
06 Dirty White 02:27
07 Idaho 04:04
08 Rough Design 03:46
09 Tell Me That You Love Me 03:23
10 Don't Let It Get To You 03:50
11 Oh My Love 03:07
12 Family Tree 03:01
13 Night Happens 01:26