Release Date: 11/05/2021Format: LPLabel: Numero Group – NUM1283Release type: Reissued 50th Anniversary Edition Yellow Colored Vinyl LP Pressing This recorded autobiography of Catherine Howe, age 20, briefly appeared in 1971. Too young for memoirs, most artists have barely established any sort of musical competence by the age of legal adulthood, let alone compositions matching the maturity and complexity of Howe’s. What A Beautiful Place, however, is a prodigious effort wrought from the melancholy ruminations of post-adolescence. The album’s twelve songs unfold like a classic bildungsroman, beginning in the smoke-stained industrial county of Yorkshire, transformed by the electrified creative landscape of mid-century London, and retiring to the warm pastoral bliss of the county of Dorset on England’s southern coast. Produced by noted jazz pianist Bobby Scott, the LP—oft-mistaken for a concept album—was available for only a month in the summer of 1971, disappearing after Reflection Records’ shuttering in 1971. 1 Prologue2 My Child3 On a Misty Morning4 Nothing More Than Strangers5 Up North6 Interlude7 It's Not Likely8 It Comes with the Breezes9 Words Through a Locked Door10 What a Beautiful Place11 The Innocence of a Child12 Epilogue
