Thank for the great review, Michael.  Here's a piece of trivia for anyone who owns or orders the album in the future.  When Mollyboy was released in 1988, "hidden tracks" were still a new and cool thing -- iTunes didn't exist!  Often people tried to hide songs at the end of the disc for you to find, like Easter eggs.  My engineer and I decided to do this by inserting several small silent files to extend the time between the last track and the hidden track so the CD would go silent but not stop until this unexpected song started from out of the blue. We chose short files because we didn't want a huge gap if people were listening to the CD on shuffle in their players.  Given today's way of listening to CDs, these choices are a relic now but it's funny to see them and remember when people were genuinely surprised to hear a "hidden" song after the final tune.  Now, as for the track that has a bunch of people's voices... those are the kids at the end of our recording of "Someday Little Children"... the final "click" is the studio door closing, ending the album.  Thanks for noticing -- I'm so glad you enjoyed the CD.  ... DEIAN
                            Read more...
                        

                            
The first thing I like about the album is how it was put together. As the notes The CD is broken up into thirds. Part full-on orchestrations, part vocal plus simply a guitar or piano, and part "mock-apella" -- a word Deian invented to describe his brand of acappella music wherein he sings ALL of the vocals and vocal percussion. This it what makes a very different and unique listen which I have not came across before. The sampling of the tracks convinced me to purchased the CD.

However this special edition pressing is very strange which for me knocks it down a star. The webpage and the cd insert says that there are 13 tracks. In fact there are 7 additional ones, but only one is an actual song (Track 20), a beautiful song and beautifully sung called ALL I WANT TO DO IS YOUR WILL.
Track 14 is strange. People clapping and cheering and saying things I could quite follow.
Tracks 15-19 are very short tracks. The longest eight seconds and shortest 4 seconds. What was the point of having them there? Am I missing something?

Track 11 is called Hi! Son! It is Deian's late mother's voice on his answering machine. One of the messages was sung. It got me a little teary eyed as I know how it is like to have parent living with dialysis

Now if it wasn'f for tracks 14-19 I would have given it 4 stars.
                            Read more...
                        

                            
If CHER were a dark skinned exotic type from the desert...oh,wait! CHER IS a dark skinned exotic type from the desert. Oh,well. Now there are TWO dark skinned exotic types from the desert: Cher & Deian McBryde! Deian is the Cher for a new millenium! Outrageous,flamboyant,with lots of costume changes and plastic surgeries,too! My Heart Belongs To Deian!
                            Read more...