Phantasmagoria in Two

Song infobox
Name = Phantasmagoria in Two


Artist = Tim Buckley
Album = Goodbye and Hello
Released = 1967
track_no = 7
Recorded = June 1967
Genre = Folk rock, Psychedelic rock
Length = 3:29
Writer = Tim Buckley
Composer = Tim Buckley
Label = Elektra Records
Producer = Jac Holzman
Tracks =
#"No Man Can Find the War"
#"Carnival Song"
#"Pleasant Street"
#"Hallucinations"
#"I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain"
#"Once I Was"
#"Phantasmagoria in Two"
#"Knight-Errant"
#"Goodbye and Hello"
#"Morning Glory"

Phantasmagoria in Two is a song that was composed by Tim Buckley, as appose to the Larry Beckett/Tim Buckley collaboration that was more commanly credited during Buckley's early years, and released (with Once I Was) as the third and final single from his second studio album, Goodbye and Hello. The song - which is dominated by its hauntingly Psychedelic intertwining guitar and piano sequences - is lyrically much like the majority of the other Buckley solo compositions of the time (such as Pleasant Street, Once I Was and Wings), with less of a specifically metaphoric and more of a purely ambiguous approach to the topic in question. However, despite these lyrical similarities, musically, it is perhaps the most deeply Psychedelic of Buckley's published recordings.
Indeed, when recorded in June 1967, it was the height of the Psychedelic era and yet despite being very much of its time, the single failed to reach anything like a significant chart position.
Despite its chart failings, the song still maintains a legacy as it was selected to be the opening track for what was perhaps Buckley's most significant live performance - at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England. The concert would later (in 1990) be released in album format as and the live, acoustic and notably slower version of the track would go on to be included on the notable 2001 compilation album .
The song was also covered by the British musician Neil Halstead on the 2000 tribute album which was contributed to by a series of other artists.

References

*Tim Buckley
*Goodbye and Hello
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* [http://www.timbuckley.net The Tim Buckley Archives]

External links

* [http://www.timbuckley.net The Tim Buckley Archives]
* [http://www.timbuckleymusic.com Tim Buckley Music ]
* [http://www.timbuckley.com TimBuckley.com]
* [http://www.timbuckley.org TimBuckley.org]
* [http://www.leeunderwood.net Lee Underwood's official site]
* [http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=74116 Rhino Entertainment - Tim Buckley]