ALBERT ALAN OWEN : Distinctive Themes - rare 1984 UK BTW Music Library vinyl LP

	£		51
	$		68

ITEM DETAILS

ARTIST - ALBERT ALAN OWEN
TITLE - "DISTINCTIVE THEMES ELECTRONIC AND ACOUSTIC"
FORMAT - vinyl LP (album)
LABEL - BTW Recorded Music Library
CATALOGUE NUMBER - BTW 108
YEAR - 1984
OTHER DETAILS - a very rare original 1984 UK Music Library LP on the BTW Recorded Music Library label, in front-laminated sleeve.

"Acoustic" is incorrectly spelled "Accoustic" (with two C's) on both the front and rear sleeve, but correctly on the spine and on both labels. The record was pressed in France (says Made In France on the labels) but is certainly a UK release.

Many of these Music Library LPs turn up great results for rare grooves, breaks, samples etc. diggers! Please see my other listings for some similar albums.

Albert Alan Owen is a Welsh composer and musician. Leaving Rhodesia in 1966 (where he had played in R&B band The Plebs) to continue his musical education in London, Owen studied piano with Harold Craxton and Angus Morrison and composition with Patrick Savill. Owen went to Paris to study composition with Nadia Boulanger (whom he continued seeing till her death in 1979) and piano with Jacques Février between 1969 and 1971. Returning to England, he went on to win the Charles Lucas Medal and Lady Holland Prize for composition at the Royal Academy of Music, and was a finalist in the National Piano Concerto Competition in 1974. In the mid-1970s, Owen performed with David Russell and Simon Climie as the leader of the classical fusion group Erato, playing classical, free jazz and electronic improvisation. He also performed with Katherine Sweeney and Adrian Thompson in the Corilla Ensemble, and with Sweeney, Milada Polasek and Peter Barnaby in the Emeryson Ensemble. Owen’s first recording of his own work, Keyboards and Strings, was released in 1979 while teaching at The John Lyon School and North London Collegiate School in London.

Albert Owen professional career has followed a particularly individual path, and he is seen, by those who know his music, as one of the most visionary and talented composers of our time. Many of the trends and styles which are so popular and fashionable today, were foreshadowed by him many years ago. "New Age", "World Music","New Romanticism", and "Electro-Acoustic" are just some of the labels that could have been attached to his music, if they had been in vogue when he was doing all these things in the early 1970s.

TRACKS

SIDE ONE
1) Stepping Out 4:40
2) S.O.S. 6:41
3) High Time 4:31
4) For Bill 2:57
5) Round And Round 3:57

SIDE TWO
1) Circles 4:09
2) Fast Forward 2:26
3) Times Past 2:47
4) Cruising 2:42
5) The Lift 2:12
6) I've Seen You 2:21
7) Arrival 0:28
8) Little Princess 0:28
9) Childs Play 0:28
10) Dawn 0:28
11) Masque 0:28
12) Flower Garden 0:28
13) Awakening 0:58

CONDITION

COVER - EX condition

• has about 6 very small laminate lines/'crinkles next to the spine and sows the merest hint of 'storage' outer rim record-shaped impression (NOT wear) to the front.
• there is a VERY small bit of wear to the blue colour right at the very top of the spine.
• all very minor indeed and otherwise fine.

• there are two LIGHT (non-feelable) surface marks, quite close to each other, on track 1 of Side 1.
• Side 2 has one VERY light 'hairline' surface mark in the middle of the side (so light that it disappears and reappears as you tilt the vinyl!).
• both the above very minor and otherwise vinyl is nice and clean.

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