Alan Shearer – Dark Is The Color

Label:
Favorite
Art.Nr.:
0453240
Kat.Nr.:
FVR182LP

Released:
1985
Cover:
Picture
Format:
LP
Pressung:
EU - Reissue
Zustand:
Neu
Vinyl:
Cover:
Genre:
Disco / Boogie + Jazz + Electronic + Funk + Soul + Black Grooves + Synthwave / Chiptunes
Stichworte:
voilaaa, taggy matcher, sauveur mallia, georges rodi, dimitri from paris
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Alan Shearer - Dark Is The Color
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2022 Reissue

Favorite Recordings presents Dark Is The Color, the first LP by Alan Shearer reissued on vinyl for the first time. Despite being initially composed and produced for the French library label PSI, this rare and obscure in-demand gem from 1985 sounds retrospectively like a proper album with great coherence and sophistication all along. Indeed, these 11 tracks will delight synthesizers addicts. Expect deeply emotive instrumental compositions, with ingenious analogue sequencing on stimulating chord progressions. The result is a highly retrofuturistic album, sometimes almost anticipating 90's videogames scores. Just imagine Wally Badarou in a bunker with Talking Heads watching New York 1997 from John Carpenter.

Composed mostly step by step on a Sequential Pro-One synthesizer, Dark Is The Color is the product of the exciting state of mind from the 80's era with new sounds, new tools and new trends on the music spectrum. Influenced by bands like Talking Head or Japan, the sirens of the new wave scene strongly resonate here with Alan Shearer's familiarity and craftmanship with synthesizers.

Back in the days, Alan Shearer aka Frédéric Viger was working for his father’s music label, “Musique Pour L'image”, and their sublabel “PSI”. He started with Marathon Life under his real name before taking the Alan Shearer monitor. These records were produced for radio, TV and cinema industries but as well for companies’ internal communication. They represented a real investment from the label and these catalogues are usually full of amazing music from great artists such as Martial Solal, Vladimir Cosma, Joël Fajerman, Harlem Pop Trotters and even Manu Dibango.

About his musical illustration process, Alan Shearer tells: "Soundtracks are indeed my biggest influences and I'm a real fan of American composers as Jerry Goldsmith or Elmer Bernstein. I've always considered soundtracks as the new classical music or classical music of our century. There is a real state of mind producing music for illustration: you have to stick to the video. You should not tell what the image is saying but accompany what it is saying. You have to find a unique link, people always told me music should not be noticed for itself in a movie, that's what makes it good.” 

Vinyl LP Only Vinyl
16,76 €*
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Vinyl LP + Digital Vinyl + Digital Vinyl + Digital
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TitelFeaturingProducingLänge
A1. The Heart Patrol03:34
A2. Dark Is The Color04:22
A3. Generation V02:17
A4. Chronomaster03:12
A5. Nocturnal March03:53
A6. The Flea Age02:40
B1. Tropical Terminal03:54
B2. Only For One Girl03:48
B3. Blackstone03:20
B4. Down Town03:18
B5. Sons Of The Snake05:22
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