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BRIAN ISLAND

BRIAN ISLAND – Looking Back (2020) *0dayrox Exclusive*

Alongside the 1989 remastered reissue of BRIAN ISLAND‘s first album featured here today, we have in exclusive the musician recent album “Looking Back“, his first in twenty years after Brian Island’s departure from recording and performing pop-rock music.
A properly titled CD as this retrospective solo album including songs when he was young and still not professional, and others penned all over his career but never recorded.
Island (real name Brian Cowieson) was part of many bands such as Bootleg, Prototype IO, and after several years playing and working as a studio vocal arranger / bass player he released a self titled solo album in 1989.
Now, after two decades, “Looking Back” showcases an artist taking a look from his early years to current day. It’s the kind of singer-songwriter material with a classic rock sound, timeless enjoyable tunes…

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BRIAN ISLAND – Brian Island [AOR Heaven remastered reissue +1] (2021) HQ

Coming straight from the Canadian unique pristine ’80s productions, AOR Heaven Records have reissued the long time out of print, hard to find 1989’s self-titled album of singer / songwriter BRIAN ISLAND, fully remastered and including a previously unreleased song as bonus track.
Island was part of cult Canadian AOR band PROTOTYPE who released a very good album back in ’83. For this, his first solo album, Island enlisted the services of his partner in Prototype, guitarist & producer Dan Lowe. Lowe, an inventor of an enhancement method for stereo recording (named Q-Sound), also contributed on guitars and songwriting.
As result, “Brian Island” is one of the best sounding AOR albums from the era, with excellent multi-track separation and a crispy melodic edge. If you are crazy for that great ’80s Canadian productions and artists like Stan Meissner, Benny Mardones, Robert Tepper, etc, then “Brian Island” is right up your alley…