Alan Shearer - Dark Is The ColorFavorite 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

and in Schumann's Dichterliebe they even succeed in conjuring up the lyrics of Heinrich Heine

With selections spanning Hovhaness' rich musical career

With the help of his friend

This convinced Kain to turn his project into a duo and to produce a complete album

The "6 Sonate di Galanteria" performed on this album were written in the early 1720s

His songs are tuneful vignettes of small moments and big hearts

' Imogen Cooper plays a Steinway Model D

creating patterns

A cry out against the withering void of listless Americana

It was success on a scale that every singer dreamed of

and tracks such as "The Jam (Part 1 and 2)" demonstrate his dynamic and original guitar sound

and one of the tracks is a collaboration with KMFDM / PIG vocalist Raymond Watts