Albert Alan Owen .Following The Light.

$55.00

Limited Edition 600 Vinyl LP. Reissue.
Ambient / New Age / UK

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Released: 2019 Originally 1982
Label: Libreville Records
Genre: Electronic, Classical
Style: Minimal, Neo-Classical, Ambient

Following the Light, while certainly melodic, makes no concessions to mid-afternoon mindfulness or commercial use and reuse. Instead, it is a deep and immersive listening experience, clearly the work of a singular musical imagination following its own rules in its own way.

The record demands to be considered as a stand-alone unit, its three sections unfolding elegant and propulsive by turns, as reoccurring themes answer each other through the layers. In doing so, it offers glimpses into a recognisably beautiful but completely other musical world. There are echoes of Reich and Riley in the use of delay, that warm rolling repetition and those bass pulses. But this is not in the service of a system. There is something more lyrical, more humane at work in the music. Perhaps it is closer to a representation of an imagined landscape: the Southern African dreamtime of Owen’s childhood walking in the bush, or a mystical but clear-eyed take on the British countryside recalling the paintings of Paul Nash or Virginia Astley’s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.

With Following the Light, Albert Alan Owen has given us that rare thing: a record that stands outside of time and place, it’s familiar elements made strange and new, all bathed in magic hour light

Recorded At – Audio International Studios
Mixed At – Audio International Studios
Lacquer Cut At – Emil Berliner Studios
Pressed By – Schallplattenfabrik Pallas GmbH – 51795

Credits:

Design [Sleeve Design] – Elizabeth Kasakoff
Lacquer Cut By – SCM*
Liner Notes – Jack Rollo
Organ [Roland Stereophonic Organ], Electric Piano [Korg Electric Piano with digital delay] – Milada Polasek
Piano [Piano with Digital Delay], Written-By, Producer – Albert Alan Owen
Producer – Heinz Herschmann
Recorded By, Mixed By [Mixing Engineer] – Richard Millard
Violin [Violin with Eventide Harmoniser] – Katherine Sweeney

Notes:

This record is dedicated to the memory of Art Pepper.
Tip-on sleeve with insert. Limited edition of 600 copies.