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Romantic Times
LP Black $19
CD $14
Digital Download $7.99
  • First ever LP reissue, first time on CD & Digital
  • All tracks newly re-mastered
  • LP housed in deluxe Stoughton “Tip-On” gatefold jacket
  • Liner notes by Jack D. Fleischer
  • All CD & LP Pre-orders include immediate MP3 download of the full album
  • LP includes download card for MP3 of the full album

Description

Earlier this year, we released the mysterious, bewitching L’Amour, a 1983 private press record thought to be the only release by one of music’s true lost talents: Lewis. Romantic Times is the 1985 follow-up to L’Amour – and it’s released as Lewis Baloue. The name may be slightly different, but this is absolutely our man: a familiar blond posing on the sleeve, a familiar, tortured voice pouring his heart out over languid synths and synthetic waltz beats.

Earlier this year, we released the mysterious, bewitching L’Amour, a 1983 private press record thought to be the only release by one of music’s true lost talents: Lewis.

So lost, in fact, was Lewis, he eluded every effort to track him down. Scant details were known: just a series of possibly apocryphal stories about a sports car-driving Canadian with a model on his arm and a habit of skipping town when there were bills to be paid.

Deciding that Lewis’ spider web-delicate songs demanded to be heard, we put the album out anyway, offering to present the due royalties to anyone who could prove they were Lewis.

One sure thing was this: Lewis was a man of many names: Randall A. Wulff among them. Now we have either found another alias – or perhaps even his real name – on the sleeve of a completely unknown album.

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Artist Bio

In 1983, a man named Lewis recorded an album named L’Amour, which was released on the unknown label R.A.W. And that’s about all we know. The record itself is a delicate, whispered album, reflecting the way the artist himself – spectral, movie star-like – almost disappears into the grey of the cover. It should come as no surprise that it failed to shout loudly enough to be noticed, another private press album that sank without trace.

There’s almost no information about Lewis or the album on the internet. There’s precious little on the sleeve: a dedication to Sports Illustrated supermodel Christie Brinkley, a photo credit for Ed Colver, the noted L.A. punk rock photographer, and credits for engineer Bob Kinsey and synth player Philip Lees. All that was known of Lewis is conjecture: a rumour that he was a con artist...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 We Danced All Night
  • 2 Bon Voyage
  • 3 Don't Stop It Now
  • 4 It's A New Day
  • 5 So Be In Love With Me
  • 6 Bringing You A Rose
  • 7 Where Did My Love Go Away
  • 8 As The Boats Go By