Name: What A Beautiful Place - 50th Anniversary
Brand: Catherine Howe

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

NUM1283LPC1

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Colour

yellow

Colour details

Yellow Vinyl

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-12-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

825764608329

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / yellow

Artist

Catherine Howe

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

Numero

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. 

<i>What A Beautiful Place</i>, 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’ closed in 1971.

What A Beautiful Place - 50th Anniversary

Music GB