Sven Libaek - Ron & Val Taylor's Inner Space

Year: 1973
Label: Festival

I consider this one a bit of a public service. It's the soundtrack to an Australian public television nature documentary about the ocean from the early 70's . You may recognize a couple tracks from their appearance in the Wes Anderson movie The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Sven Libaek is a legend in library music circles, crafting some of the most delicate tunes of the genre alongside Italian and French composers like Piero Umiliani and Cecil Leuter. This one sounds very aquatic, befitting its intended source. It's sort of jazzy but also loungy and poppy too. Just hear the composition! Lovely stuff.

The reason it's a public service is because I'm quite certain this is the only pristine rip of this thing on the entire Internet. There's a rip floating around on Soulseek, but many of the songs are badly corrupted and what's playable sounds like it came from a poorly treated copy of the original vinyl pressing. This CD re-release was a limited edition of 500 which is very out of print. I snagged the last reasonably-priced copy off of eBay. So enjoy!

(Note: Don't confuse this with the compilation called Inner Space (The Lost Film Music of Sven Libaek). That releases picks and chooses tracks from four of his scores; the tracks on this one all come from the Inner Space TV show.)

Link removed per request of the record label (192 kbps AAC, Mediafire)