Van der Graaf Generator WORLD RECORD (Stephen W Tayler 5.1 Mix out in March!)

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https://www.cherryred.co.uk/van-der-graaf-generator-world-record-2cd-blu-ray-remastered-box-set

• NEW 2CD / MULTI-REGION BLU-RAY VIDEO CLAMSHELL BOX SET FEATURING THE CLASIC ALBUM ‘WORLD RECORD’ BY VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR.

• INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL STEREO MIX REMASTERED ALONGSIDE NEW STEREO & 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIXES BY STEPHEN W TAYLER.

• PLUS THE PROMOTIONAL VIDEO FILM OF ‘WONDERING’.

• AND AN ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET & ESSAY.

Originally released in October 1976, the album was the last to be recorded by the line-up of Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton, David Jackson and Guy Evans until their reunion in 2005.

Recorded at Rockfield Studios in May 1976, the album featured such material as ‘Wondering’, ‘A Place to Survive’, ‘When She Comes’ and the long piece ‘Meurglys III, The Songwriter’s Guild’.

This new 2 CD / Blu-Ray edition features a remastered version of the original album mix and the single B-side ‘Part One (Approx. 35% of) Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild)’ along with stunning new stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound mixes by Stephen W Tayler. The Blu-Ray disc also includes the 1976 promotional film of ‘Wondering’. The package and includes an illustrated booklet with essay.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

World Record - Remastered

1 When She Comes

2 A Place to Survive

3 Masks

4 Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild) 5 Wondering Bonus track

6 Part One (Approx. 35% of) Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild)

(B-side of single)

DISC TWO

World Record - Stephen W Tayler stereo mix

1 When She Comes

2 A Place to Survive

3 Masks

4 Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild) 5 Wondering

DISC THREE

World Record

High resolution new 5.1 surround sound & stereo mixes

1 When She Comes

2 A Place to Survive

3 Masks

4 Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild) 5 Wondering

Bonus visual content

6 Wondering

(1976 Charisma Records promotional video)

 

[SHB]

Fantastic! Heard this album only once by VDGG, and was hoping it would get the Tayler treatment. Nice price too! I will certainly be ordering from a US vendor.

 

[Juggsnelson]

Fantastic news!

 

[srbjab]

Immediately pre-ordered from Cherry Red as soon as I got the email notice. I always thought it was odd that this title did not include a 5.1 mix in the Charisma years VDGG box set - but is now available with a matching 5.1 mix by Stephen Taylor. I know this last release by the classic VDGG lineup doesn't get as much love as the earlier titles but I always really liked it. World Record was accused by some of trying to be more "commercial", but how any album containing a 20 minute sprawling epic, Meurglys III (The Songwriter's Guild), that mixes raw, tortured prog with a reggae beat can be called commercial escapes me.

Hopefully The Quiet Zone / The Pleasure Dome will follow with a similar blu-ray/5.1 treatment. And could a Peter Hammill The Charisma Years box set be in our future? - one can dream.

 

[Woody61]

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/van-der-graaf-generator-world-record-2cd-blu-ray-remastered-box-set

• NEW 2CD / MULTI-REGION BLU-RAY VIDEO CLAMSHELL BOX SET FEATURING THE CLASIC ALBUM ‘WORLD RECORD’ BY VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR.

• INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL STEREO MIX REMASTERED ALONGSIDE NEW STEREO & 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIXES BY STEPHEN W TAYLER.

• PLUS THE PROMOTIONAL VIDEO FILM OF ‘WONDERING’.

• AND AN ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET & ESSAY.

Originally released in October 1976, the album was the last to be recorded by the line-up of Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton, David Jackson and Guy Evans until their reunion in 2005.

Recorded at Rockfield Studios in May 1976, the album featured such material as ‘Wondering’, ‘A Place to Survive’, ‘When She Comes’ and the long piece ‘Meurglys III, The Songwriter’s Guild’.

This new 2 CD / Blu-Ray edition features a remastered version of the original album mix and the single B-side ‘Part One (Approx. 35% of) Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild)’ along with stunning new stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound mixes by Stephen W Tayler. The Blu-Ray disc also includes the 1976 promotional film of ‘Wondering’. The package and includes an illustrated booklet with essay.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

World Record - Remastered

1 When She Comes

2 A Place to Survive

3 Masks

4 Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild) 5 Wondering Bonus track

6 Part One (Approx. 35% of) Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild)

(B-side of single)

DISC TWO

World Record - Stephen W Tayler stereo mix

1 When She Comes

2 A Place to Survive

3 Masks

4 Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild) 5 Wondering

DISC THREE

World Record

High resolution new 5.1 surround sound & stereo mixes

1 When She Comes

2 A Place to Survive

3 Masks

4 Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild) 5 Wondering

Bonus visual content

6 Wondering

(1976 Charisma Records promotional video)

Fab news! this Blu Ray of the last of the famous 1975-1976 Trilogy, World Record. For almost 30 years everybody, including Hammill, assumed that to be the last VdGG album....And then came Royal Festival Hall with (a) Present. But I'm also hoping for the even better Quiet Zone/Pleasure Dome, by VdG !
Rene
who was at probably (?) the one but last ever VdGG show, the one in Milan before the final one 2 days later at Reutlingen, after which Hammill had serious, life saving, surgery. Happy to have seen him solo in full swing a few weeks back in Milan again!