Encore Records

Peter Gabriel

New Blood Live In London

Filmed at Hammersmith Apollo in March of this year, New Blood Live In London captures Peter Gabriel performing live with the 46 piece New Blood Orchestra. The repertoire mixes cover versions from his Scratch My Back album with classic tracks from across his solo career in brand new orchestral arrangements. Gabriel is a renowned live performer and his onstage charisma and instantly recognizable voice combine brilliantly with the orchestral sound palette to breathe a new sense of wonder into familiar songs. As you would expect the concert is also a visual feast, with graphics, animation and imagery blending to enhance and illustrate the music. This is truly a live experience not to be missed. Bonus Features: Blood Donors the story behind the project including an interview with Peter Gabriel.
DVD and BLU RAY available.

Peter Gabriel

New Blood

Limited deluxe two CD edition includes bonus CD containing instrumental versions of the album’s tracks.

New Blood is a continuum of Peter’s previous Scratch My Back album - the song-swap project where he covered the songs of others, all to an orchestral backing. Thanks to the precise arrangements by John Metcalf and Peter, the treatment was so successful that Peter very quickly knew where he wanted to take it next, and work began to apply the same principals to his own songs.

“The orchestra provides different dimensions to the music that weren’t there initially,” confirms Peter. “Rock artists work slowly in studios, building up layer by layer, and one of the great, powerful advantages of an orchestra is all these musicians playing at one moment with all sorts of colors and personalities.” And in front of orchestra, taking centre stage when necessary, retreating into the shadows when not, is Peter’s rich voice.

Retaining its trademark emotive power, it returns to lyrics written 20 or 30 years ago, reinvesting them with new meaning and heightened poignancy. New life, new blood. A musical transfusion. The songs live on.

Pink Floyd

Dark Side of the Moon and Catalogue

Extremely limited six disc (three CDs + two DVDs + Blu-Ray) Immersion Edition of this classic 1973 album from the British Rock legends comes with a plethora of bonus audio and video material spread over two bonus CDs, two DVDs and a Blu-Ray plus a new 40 page oversized booklet, a book of original photographs, exclusive merchandise and facsimile collectables including a scarf, three black marbles, nine coasters, replicas of tour items and more.

There is also a 2 cd version and single cd and remastered LP.

All the other albums from their catalogue have also been released in remastered form at a good price.

Look for the Wish You Were Here box before xmas !!

Opeth

Heritage

Opeth’s roots in the doom-laden shade of occult-infused Scandinavian Death Metal and dark romanticism are undeniable and will never elicit apology.

But the transcendent emotional and melodic heights achieved on Heritage marks a new chapter in the storied quintet’s career. Band leader, singer, guitarist, songwriter and long-running consistent member Mikael Åkerfeldt has reshaped the pathway forward for his artistic vehicle without sacrificing the hard won spiritualism of previous endeavors.

This masterwork from the Stockholm, Sweden based virtuoso musicians is a mind-boggling dense maze of tempo shifts, off-time signatures, percussive experimentation and warped rhythms.

It is all expertly melded together by a myriad range of emotional outpouring and breezy melodic optimism which soars above the songs like a woodland spirit surveying its forest. There are multiple hints of darkness but Heritage moves the band forward into broader dimensions.

Quicksilver Messenger Service

Anthology Box Set

3 CD + DVD
Studio outtakes and unreleased live material !

Dream Theater

A Dramatic Turn Of Events

Special two disc (CD + DVD) editon includes bonus DVD.

A Dramatic Turn of Events is an album born from transition, crafted with studied persistence and possessed by newfound freedom and free-flowing invigoration.

The album strikes the perfect balance between Dream Theater’s intimate history with all that is heavy, progressive and melodic with each element fully realized.

Jimi Hendrix

In the West

Digitally remastered and expanded edition includes five bonus tracks.

Consisting of live material recorded at venues ranging from the Berkeley Community Theatre and the San Diego Sports Arena to the Isle of Wight Festival, Hendrix In The West captures the guitarist exploring new directions in sound during 1969-70.

Blitzen Trapper

American Goldwing

Blitzen Trapper’s third release for Sub Pop finds the band working with collaborators for the first time, opening the studio doors to an outside mixer and co-producer.

Musically, though, the band keeps things entirely within the family, brewing up a track list that harks back to the band’s 1970s country and Southern rock influences without losing sight of Blitzen Trapper’s contemporary appeal.

Yes

Fly From Here

New studio album !

Limited version with a ‘making of’ documentary on dvd.

Tangerine Dream

Zeit (2CD)

UK 2 cd remaster featuring an unreleased concert from 1972.