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Andrew Thomas Wilson
That Wilson name again!
I was listening to something I recorded on cassette from a radio programme back in the 1980's: an album called Carnarvon by one Andrew Thomas Wilson. The sound quality is still not bad, but it ocurred to me that I probably should get around to acquiring a proper CD recording. For those who don't know it - which is probably most people here - it falls loosely under the category of New Age, but not the soporific New Age of which there was so much around at the time, it's very lively and atmospheric. The Carnarvon in the title refers not to the place in Wales, nor to the town in Western Australia, but to Carnarvon Gorge in Queensland.
While searching the web I discovered two things:
(1) This album has the distinction of having been the first Australian recording to be released on CD. (It was not the first CD manufactured here; it was manufactured in Japan. That honour goes to Whispering Jack by John Farnham.)
(2) The album has become rare and therefore hard to get without paying a lot of money.
This second piece of information infuriated me because it's an excellent album.
Information about Andrew Thomas Wilson is rather hard to come by, not helped by the fact that it's a rather common name. He seems to have done a couple of movie soundtracks, and I also found a reference to a collaboration with Brian Eno - though again I'm not sure that it's the same Andrew Wilson.
There is so much forgettable garbage on the airwaves these days that it annoys me that something like this can slip into obscurity.
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