XTC: The Big Express (CD + Audio) [Blu-ray]

На Blu-ray Audio и при участии Стивена Уилсона выходит очередной альбом старой эпохи - на этот раз речь идет о The Big Express (1984) известной английской группы пост панка и новой волны XTC...
Издание выпущено в комплекте CD+Blu-ray, где помимо самого альбома в новом ремиксе Dolby Atmos, 5.1 и стерео, будет инструментальный вариант, плюс дополнительные демо-версии и бонус-треки. На альбоме The Big Express широко использовались новые для того времени технологии, программируя Linn-Drum (вместе с барабанщиком Питером Фиппсом), эмулятор E-mu и другие синтезаторы.

The Big Express (1984) is the seventh in a series of expanded XTC album reissues, including 5.1 Surround mixes, Dolby Atmos (for the first time with an XTC album), 2023 stereo mixes and High-Resolution stereo mixes by Steven Wilson, along with a wealth of extra audio and visual material.

A neglected classic of its era, the album creatively fused the band's immense songwriting gifts with the technology of the day to produce a vibrant Post-Punk concept album about growing up in an industrial town.

“The Big Express is the closest we ever came to recording a 'concept' album. It’s full of Swindon and deep seams of life there, that run through myself, Colin, and Dave, (Terry too of course). It's populated by members of our families, our hopes and dreams. The things we wished for, or feared, a stew of memories.” - Andy Partridge (excerpted from the book Popartery, 2023)

Packaged in a 2-disc digipack sleeve with 16-page booklet in a cardboard slip case. All copies come with a postcard signed by Colin Moulding (while stocks last).

CD features the complete album newly mixed in stereo + three additional tracks.

Blu-Ray includes the newly mixed material as featured on CD in Hi-Res Stereo, 5.1 Surround and Dolby Atmos + 2023 stereo out-takes & instrumental mixes in Hi-Res stereo. Also includes the original album + additional tracks in Hi-Res stereo. The complete album & more also appear in demo form (16/48 stereo reflecting the source material).

Треклист:
CD (2023 Mixes)
1. Wake Up
2. All You Pretty Girls
3. Shake You Donkey Up
4. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
5. This World Over
6. The Everyday Story Of Smalltown
7. I Bought Myself A Liarbird
8. Reign Of Blows
9. You’re The Wish You Are I Had
10. I Remember The Sun
11. Train Running Low On Soul Coal

Additional tracks
12. Red Brick Dream
13. Washaway
14. Blue Overall

Blu-ray
Album and additional tracks of 2023 Mix in Dolby Atmos, Hi-Res Stereo and DTS-HD MA Surround Sound & instrumental mixes in Hi-Res Stereo all mixed by Steven WIlson. Plus album and additional tracks of original mix in Hi-Res stereo, with additional out-takes.

Additional out-takes:
15. Broomstick Rhythm (guide vocal)
16. The Troubles (Big Express Version – Backing Track)

Album and additional tracks in demo form in 16/48 Hi-Res stereo with additional demos of songs written for The Big Express

Additional demos:
15. Now we all Dead (It Doesn't Matter)
16. Work
17. Gangway, Electric Guitar is Coming Through
18. Broomstick Rhythm
19. Shiny Cage
20. A Patriotic Romance