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Release Date: 11-07-2000
Label: Multi Mediaquest
Catalog Number: MS112
Barcode: 5017736321120
Musical Style: New Instrumental
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Distances Between Us  | 6 | Amazon Woman |
| 2 | Lying-Waiting-Dreaming-Thinking... | 7 | Solstice |
| 3 | Born - the Womb into a Sea of Life | 8 | Mourning Glory |
| 4 | Messengers of Morpheus | 9 | Steppenwolf |
| 5 | Stranger in a Strange Land | 10 | Music of the Spheres |
Description:
In the Summer of 1974 Atlantic Records released Adrian's first album. For him, at the time, the album had been finally put to bed! Until recently he had absolutely no reason or desire to re-release 'Distances Between Us'. However, two things made him change his mind. Over the years people who had purchased his other albums had wanted 'Distances...' to complete their collection of his music. The second reason was considerably sadder. In 1987 Robert Calvert died suddenly of a heart attack. Robert Calvert was very much responsible in introducing Adrian, as a contemporary music dropout, to the world of rock music (including his band Hawkwind!). Some of the earlier work they did together is on this album together with an unreleased single 'Stranger in a Strange Land'. It was Robert that implanted the seeds for 'Inca Gold'. He influenced Adrian's lyrics for 'Amazon Woman' also on this album. But most of all he was a good friend to Adrian who says 'I think the years will show that Robert Calvert made an enormous and unique contribution to Rock Music.'
Biography:
The composer, artist, media consultant and music producer, Adrian Wagner is the great-great grandson of the famous nineteenth-century Grail opera composer, Richard Wagner, whose popular master works include Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhauser and The Ring of the Nibelung. Adrian was born in Kent, England, in 1952, and educated at the Choir School, Canterbury and Kings School, Canterbury. From the age of 15, Adrian also studied art and painting at the very well equipped art school at Kings as well as setting up the new photographic society. He studied musical composition and orchestration with his father, who was Director of the R.A.F. music division, and others such as Alan Ridout, Allan Wicks and Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music in London. His professional career began at the age of twenty, subsequent to which he worked with rock musicians and bands including Steamhammer, The Other Side, The Coming, Arthur Brown, Robert Calvert of Hawkwind, Alexis Korner, etc., performing at the Royal Albert Hall and other notable venues. He also worked alongside many artists, poets and actors; putting on exhibitions, festivals and theatre events involving the, so called, underground arts and cultural movement of the early '70s. This was a remarkable period for Adrian and created the seeds for the projects he is so passionately involved with today. A term he coins for this 21st Century movement is 'New Renaissance'!
