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| | Liner Notes for Cyrus Faryar's "Islands" |
 | | A gentle but idiosyncratic singer-songwriter album, it didn't sell well, perhaps in part because of a lavish release party (at Faryar's house, where the album was recorded) that might have eaten up a lot of the promotional budget. |
 | | Whereas Faryar had produced Cyrus himself, however, Islands would be handled by John Simon, who'd recently worked on records by the Band, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Blood, Sweat and Tears. |
 | | Holzman got an "album concept and guidance counselor" credit on the back cover, and even took the back cover photo in Maui, where Jac had moved to live in 1973, when Islands was released. |
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