In Another Land (album)
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| Studio album by Larry Norman | ||||
| Released | 1976 | |||
| Recorded | 1975 | |||
| Label | Solid Rock Records | |||
| Producer | Larry Norman | |||
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In Another Land is an album recorded by Larry Norman and released in 1976. It is the third album in Norman's "trilogy," which began with Only Visiting This Planet and continued with So Long Ago the Garden. The album contains some of Norman's most well-known work.
In 1975 Norman recorded In Another Land, the third album in his trilogy, which was released in 1976 through his own Solid Rock label and distributed through Word Records, making it "the first of his albums to be released on a Christian label". However, according to Norman, "In Another Land, was executorially censored by the "mother company" which insisted on removing any music they felt was "too negative" or "too controversial." Commercial pressure from Norman's "American publisher and American and European distributors" forced Norman to remove four songs from In Another Land: "I Dreamed that I Died", "Looking for the Footprints", "Top 40 Survey", and "You'll Never Find No One (Who Loves You Like I Do", as they believed that Norman had included too many songs, and that the deleted songs could be released on his next album. One of the songs included on this album was "The Sun Began to Rain" (The Son Began to Reign), an allegory written by Norman, was "knocked out ... in just over a minute" with British comedian Dudley Moore on piano. In a 1980 interview Norman explained the purpose of In Another Land:
In Another Land is the third part of the trilogy It's about the future, and rather than speculate about what the future might hold, I tried to stick closely to what the Bible says it will hold. I think because the future orientated album was so directly tied to the scriptures, people felt this is Larry's best album, because this is the one I like best. Or This is the most Christian album. I think that Only Visiting This Planet or So Long Ago The Garden were much better conceptional statements, much better medicine for a non-Christian to swallow. The front cover of In Another Land posed a problem. I couldn't really go and stand on a hillside in front of The New Jerusalem, so I just put together a lot of photographs of Israel and photographs of mountainous terrain. The front cover shows a painting of me standing on a hill, for the first time smiling at the camera, because in the new age I won't be troubled as I have always been on my other albums about things like world hunger, and world ignorance, human anger and jealousy and pettiness.
Norman provides a more detailed analysis of In Another Land in the producer notes of the 1991 re-issue.In Another Land was Norman's best-selling album ever, and had the best reception of any of his albums from the Christian establishment. In 2005 Norman recalled:
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