To some listeners who followed the Finnadar Records label during its decade-long run at the tail end of the LP era, IBA's Idil Biret: Archive Edition, Vol. 3, will be like the realization of a seemingly impossible dream; the re-release of 1978's New Line Piano, a Finnadar record that was particularly difficult to find and that hardly anybody bought. It wasn't that the album was a bad one; just simply by this time Finnadar's corporate parent, Warner-Atlantic, wasn't that interested in promoting or distributing records like ...
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To some listeners who followed the Finnadar Records label during its decade-long run at the tail end of the LP era, IBA's Idil Biret: Archive Edition, Vol. 3, will be like the realization of a seemingly impossible dream; the re-release of 1978's New Line Piano, a Finnadar record that was particularly difficult to find and that hardly anybody bought. It wasn't that the album was a bad one; just simply by this time Finnadar's corporate parent, Warner-Atlantic, wasn't that interested in promoting or distributing records like these when it had so much on its hands with big-name, best-selling artists like Jackson Browne and Fleetwood Mac on the roster. So most of the copies of New Line Piano had their corners slashed off and went straight to the cutout bins, and even those new music fans diligent enough to turn up a copy were a little befuddled as to what the phrase "New Line Piano" might mean.New Line Piano represented the most difficult and obscure piano music that Biret recorded for Finnadar; expert...
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