BLYTH JEX SCHOOL
RECORDS
Blyth Jex
School Records was a DIY
label. It managed one single. by a Rock band called Quartz - not the
band of that name which recorded for Jet Records - was the only record to appear
on the Blyth Jex School label. It offered the tracks 'Witch Queen' and
'Social Values', and it came out in 1977. According to the sleeve notes
the record was intended to raise funds towards the conversion of the Sewell Barn
into a theatre, a conversion which eventually took place. The pictures of
the various members of the band on that cover suggest that they may well have
been senior pupils at the school at the time of the recording. The matrix
/ catalogue number, TRG-77002, was one of a series used by Trygg Recordings, a
label run by Tryggvi Tryggvason, a lecturer at the University of East Anglia and
formerly a recording engineer with Decca. The album-only Trygg Recordings
was responsible for a fair number of releases from 1977 until 1989, though it
doesn't seem to have issued any records on its own labels after 1984. It
appears to have concentrated on Classical or Choral material, and,
interestingly, it put out at least a couple of LPs by Icelandic artists.
Trygg - it means 'Loyal' in Icelandic - had a sister label, UEA. Both the
labels and the Blyth Jex School were based in Norwich; the Blyth Jex is now the
Sewell Park Academy. Tryggvason continued to work both as an engineer and
a producer in the Classical field, for the likes of Hyperion, Chandos and
Deutsche Grammophon. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The
Info
76
Broadland
Singers
Broadland Singers
(Album)
TRYGG
RECORDINGS
TRG
1001
77
Quartz
Witch Queen
BLYTH JEX SCHOOL
TRG
77002
77
Choir Of Peterborough Cathedral, Stanley
Vann
Music For Peterborough (Album)
TRYGG RECORDINGS
TRG
77003
77
Garoar Cortes
Íslenzk Einsongslog 1 (Album)
TRYGG RECORDINGS
TRG
77004