Heirborne

Description

Heirborne is an instrumental album by the American keyboardist, composer, producer and arranger Richard Souther (formerly a member of 2nd Chapter’s touring band – “a band called David” – featured on 2nd Chapter’s live albums To the Bride and How the West Was One), 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” (later ammended to “Music for your personal retreat“). The album was recorded June 1985 by Tim Pinch at Norther South Recording Studio in Granada Hills, California; with Peter York producing. Mixed by York, Souther, and Jay Lewis at Room 335 in Los Angeles, California. All songs composed by Richard Souther. Featuring Richard Souther on keyboards with Alex Acuna of Koinonia fame providing additional percussion.

Music for Your Personal Retreat (PROMO TEXT)

Richard Souther – Heirborne

Although Israeli, Irish and British influences pass through this synthesizer player’s first Meadowlark album, Richard Souther calls Los Angels both his home town and his home base.

“Off-base” is the response of critics to his emotional playing of this instrument. Those who summarily dismiss synthesizers as too intrinsically mechanical just haven’t heard his session work for artists as diverse as Phil Keaggy and Debby Boone.

“I prefer the synthesizer over other instruments because of its expressiveness,” he knowingly explains. “For Heirborne, I used twenty of them.”

“This is the kind of music I play for my own enjoyment,” Souther sums up. “But I also know it can cross barriers – become the kind othat listeners with varying initial preferences can relate to.”

[Bruce A. Brown, CCM, January 1986]

LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Beginnings” – 7:06
A2. “Highlands” – 1:18
A3. “Eye Of The Needle” – 2:51
A4. “Dream Suite” – 2:40
A5. “On The Third Day” – 3:46
A6. “Heartcall” – 4:01

Side Two
B1. “Heirborne” – 5:15
B2. “Big Time Return” – 2:18
B3. “Nightseasons” – 4:13
B4. “Pure And Simple” – 3:14
B5. “The Homecoming” – 3:14

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and 12-inch vinyl LP by Meadowlark Records. Pressed on KC 569 Premium Translucent Virgin Vinyl (MLR 7004). Later re-issued on CD. Half of the tracks were included on the multi-artist compilation album Murmures de la forêt (Forest Murmurs) released on Forlane/Delta Music in 2011. Available at Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/northblip

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