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NATIONAL ALBUM DAY | ANNE AKIKO MEYERS – EAST MEETS WEST

The ninth annual National Album Day (NAD) will take place on Saturday, 17 October 2026, and among the featured titles is the reissue of Anne Akiko Meyers’ enduring and best-selling album from 2003, East Meets West. This year’s NAD theme celebrates “Icons” – legendary, cultural and contemporary artists and recordings – a description befitting the GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist who is one of the world’s most esteemed and celebrated musicians. On an occasion that has recognised such musicians as The Beatles, David Bowie, Oasis and The Spice Girls, Anne is a rarity representing the classical genre.

National Album Day celebrates an art form which in recent years has increasingly gained traction and encourages album discovery and listening across generations and genres. Anne says, “I am so thrilled that East Meets West will be featured on National Album Day. This self-produced recording, created nearly 25 years ago, brings together the great 20th-century French composers Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, and Maurice Ravel with contemporary Japanese composers Somei Satoh and Toru Takemitsu. I have always been fascinated by the connections between these musical worlds — their extraordinary colours, luminous textures, and shared language of sound, space, and beauty having grown up with both Japanese and Western cultures. I am deeply grateful to AVIE Records for bringing this transcendent music vividly to life in a newly remastered edition, available on vinyl, CD, digitally, and for the first time in Dolby Atmos. I hope you enjoy rediscovering the timeless beauty of these extraordinary works!”

When first released in 2003, Gramophone magazine found East Meets West a “satisfying sequence with some illuminating juxtapositions”, whilst AllMusic.com, in its five-star review, called the album “truly impressive … Meyers is a genuinely unique voice among violinists”. The reissue’s standout packaging includes a 180gsm vinyl LP in a sturdy, cardboard printed inner sleeve, and the album’s first availability in the Dolby Atmos digital format.

National Album Day originated in 2018 and is organised jointly by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA), with support from BBC Radio 2, Association of Independent Music (AIM) and Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL). East Meets West and other featured NAD albums will be celebrated by leading record retail outlets including Presto Music (Leamington Spa), Pie & Vinyl (Portsmouth) and Rough Trade (London, Liverpool and other locations throughout the UK), among others.

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