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The music on this album, specially created for the television series, is the result of the combined talents of two exceptional but very different musicians: Jon Lord, rock luminary of "Deep Purple" and "Whitesnake". fame, and Alfred Ralston, veteran of music hall and stage and film musicals with hits like "Oh! What A Lovely War" to his credit. Both slightly unexpected artists to be writing the score for a country idyll. But it was the challenge of producing music outside their usual spheres that has given the series music which is so fresh and strong. There was one crucial and tricky object from the start: to create music that was sensitive and lovely enough to express the beauty of the Warwickshire countryside yet robust enough to rise to the heights of stormy weather, emotional crises and the tremendously expansive and dramatic poetry in the "Diary". The original surprise idea of working with Jon came from series producer Patrick Gamble who knew Jon had written a theme of his own after reading the Diary.

The label that ignited the Dutch post-punk scene! Homogeneity be damned, these early Plurex tracks are a head-turning snapshot of what was happening in the late ‘70s Netherlands underground! Includes an interview with Plurex founders and all of the singles from 1978-‘80! Some of the bands would never release another record, but for the label and many of the artists there was yet more history to be made, not least of which was Minny Pops’ ascendance to seminal status, and Plurex’s emergence at the center of the envelope-pushing Dutch music scene that came to be known as Ultra.