Commemorating the late Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson and his creative partnership with musician/songwriter Van Dyke Parks on the abandoned 1967 concept album ‘SMiLE.’

The story goes that Wilson had a grand piano set up in a sandbox in his living room, so he could play with his feet in the sand, and that’s where the two of them worked on such legendary experimental tunes as ‘Heroes and Villains’ & ‘Surf’s Up.’

Parks wrote about his friend for The Guardian:

“We came up with Surf’s Up in one night. We talked about how classical music had died and was being replaced by something else, and there were things to be discovered. I sat there with Brian as we were reinventing the song form.”

“…I don’t know how much Brian consciously was trying to top Pet Sounds [1966] but he wanted out of the box. Placing his piano in a sand-box in his living room wasn’t an example of his craziness. It was both a pop art statement and his fantastic sense of humour. He’d wanted to drop the surfboard and progress so I mischievously suggested the title Surf’s Up. It was naughty … but how could his cousin Mike Love argue with a title like Surf’s Up? I wanted to help Brian have a moment he deserved.”

In 2004 these two finally got together to finish the album, which was re-recorded as ‘Brian Wilson Presents Smile,’ the basis for a 2011 reconstructed ‘Smile Sessions’ which uses the original tapes and demos.