The Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy 24Bit 192KHz VINYL FLAC ANDYT1000 KAT

In Edgar Allan Poe’s story ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, the clue to solving the case lay in a sequence of words, the key one of which was ‘Stereotomy’. On the Chinese Whispers track, Eric’s daughters Sally & Lorna spoke the sequence of words from Poe’s tale.

‘Stereotomy’ seemed to Eric a word ahead of its time as Poe had written the story in the first half of the 19th Century, long before stereo or even mono existed. This was the first album to be recorded completely digitally and the new technology seemed to produce a crisper sound.

At this time Eric was discussing future projects with Walter Yetnikoff, the president of CBS Records, who was fairly over the top at that stage. At the time they were talking, Eric had with him the backing tracks of the Stereotomy album (the vocals had not yet been recorded) and Walter summoned his bewildered record company executives to a playback of the backings only. They listened politely, but were mystified as to what point there was in hearing backing tracks of an album which would be coming out on another label, but Walter was the boss!

Lee Abrams, the radio programmer, who was featured talking on the track ‘Let’s Talk About Me’ on Vulture Culture, was a strong supporter and objective critic of the APP. In a conversation with Eric, he was complaining about a lyric that he considered banal and said ‘I don’t hear a great lyric. Where’s the Walrus?’ as in John Lennon’s brilliant “I Am The Walrus”. Eric picked up on the phrase as a most appropriate title for the instrumental track on the album.


Tracks

Stereotomy
Beaujolais
Urbania (Instrumental)
Limelight
In The Real World
Where’s The Walrus?
Light Of The World
Chinese Whispers (Instrumental)
Stereotomy Two