Description
Songs Unspoken is an instrumental album by the American keyboardist, composer, producer and arranger Douglas Trowbridge (a.k.a. Richard Souther), released on Meadowlark Records in 1985, manufactured, marketed and distributed by Sparrow Records. The album was part of the Meadowlark Series, a series of contemplative instrumental albums launched by Sparrow Records in late 1985, sub-titled “Music without words for thoughts without limits” and later ammended to “Music for your personal retreat“. The album was produced by Peter York. All songs written by Douglas Trowbridge.
During the mid Eighties a new instrumental label, Meadowlark Records, signed Richard Souther for his first solo albums, the electronic Heirborne and Innermission. The label also wanted to release his solo, acoustic piano recordings. To reduce confusion about dissimilar projects in the marketplace, those acoustic albums – Songs Unspoken and Second Story – were issued under his middle names; Douglas Trowbridge.
This recording was made direct to two track using a Studer A 80 half inch recorder modified by Mark Levinson Audio Systems, at 30 inches per second through a Trident Series 80 Board. The piano used was a 1940 Hamburg Steinway 9 ft. Concert Grand. It was miked with a matched pair of Neumann U 67 microphones. A Lexicon 224 X Digital Reverb was combined with an EMT 140 Tube Stereo Reverb for all reverberation. This project was monitored on John Meyer Sound Laboratory ACD monitors. No noise reduction was employed. [Note featured on the back of the LP sleeve]
LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “Daybreak Communion” – 3:36
A2. “A Most Remarkable Meeting” – 3:48
A3. “Beyond The Shadows” – 4:44
A4. “Unending Melody” – 2:08
A5. “Where Dreams Are Born” – 3:33
Side Two
B1. “For A Season” – 2:44
B2. “Finlandia” – 3:57
B3. “Matters Of The Heart” – 2:25
B4. “Upon His Arrival” – 2:35
B5. “The Farewell” – 5:58
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and 12-inch vinyl LP by Sparrow Records. Later re-issued on CD by Sparrow. All 16 releases in the Meadowlark instrumental music series also were repacked and re-issued on CD by Laser Light.
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