Donovan - Barabajagal (CD)

Vinyl LP pressing. The songs on this album represent all facets of Donovan's career. Several rockers adorn the album, including the title track, ""Trudi"", ""The Love Song"" and ""Superlungs (My Supergirl)"". ""I Love My Shirt"" updates the sound of Donovan's children's music, and there are several slow songs featuring breathy vocals (""Where Is She?"", ""To Susan on the West Coast Waiting"") reminiscent of the For Little Ones portion of A Gift from a Flower to a Garden.

Vinyl LP pressing. In addition to being one of Donovan's edgiest and most ambitious releases, 1968's Barabajagal was the most commercially successful album of his career, reaching No. 4 in the U.S. and remaining on the Billboard album chart for more than a year. With instrumental backup by the Jeff Beck Group (including Rod Stewart and Ron Wood) on several tracks, as well as an all-star cast that includes Madeline Bell, Aynsley Dunbar, Lesley Duncan, Nicky Hopkins, John Paul Jones, Graham Nash and legendary British session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, Barabajagal features an imaginative array of sounds that showcase some of Donovan's most adventurous compositions. Also on board is Paul McCartney, who contributes vocals and percussion on the album's biggest hit, the epic ""Atlantis,"" which appears here alongside such Donovan favorites as ""Barabajagal (Love Is Hot),"" ""Superlungs (My Supergirl),"" ""To Susan On the West Coast Waiting,"" ""Trudi"" and the effervescent ""Happiness Runs."" They all sound magnificent in Barabajagal's original true stereo mix, and this Aquarian age classic has never sounded better than in this definitive LP edition from Sundazed Records

This is a complete limited pressing edition released as part of the Donovan Paper Jacket Collection volume 6, commemorating the 60th anniversary of Donovan's debut, featuring a Blu-spec CD2 in a mini LP style paper sleeve and representing the first-ever Japanese paper jacket release of this title, a Japan-only project that is not available for export, originally released in 1969 and newly remastered in 2026, and including Japanese liner notes, lyrics with Japanese translations, a reproduced Japanese LP obi, a reproduced inner sleeve, a bonus track, and an enclosed special bonus of a reproduced fan club flyer, with Barabajaga marking a dramatic change in direction from the partially completed children's folk album Moon in Capricorn and closing out the 1960s through sessions involving the Jeff Beck Group, Leslie Duncan, Madeline Bell, Suzi Quatro, Danny Thompson, Jim Gordon, Harold McNair, and Alan Hawkshaw, featuring the US hit single The Atlantic which reached number 7 on the charts, the title track which reached number 36, and an album peak of number 23 on the US charts.