V.D.G.G. – The Charisma Years 1970-1979

17 CD ve 3 Blu Ray diskten oluşan yeni koleksiyon, prog efsanesinin Charisma için kaydettiği her şey ve çok sayıda nadir parçadan oluşuyor.

‘The Charisma Years 1970-1979’ setinde Almanya’da çekilen Beat Clup, Belçika’da kaydedilen Pop Shop gibi bir çok konser kayıtlarının blue ray olarak düzenlenmiş halleri mevcut. Sette ayrıca 68 sayfalık bir kitapçık da var.

‘The Charisma Years 1970-1979’ setleri için müzisyenler aşağıdaki yorumları yapmıştır.

Guy Evans ; ‘It’s perhaps an impossible agenda for the remixing engineer to make the tracks sound as good as possible and to somehow make us, mainly me, have played better. But Stephen Tayler has for sure in these new mixes given us all a remarkable new sonic perspective.

“From the moment I picked up on hitherto vanished cymbal lines in Arrow, and the newly balanced kit, I was hooked. Then it was those quirky second vocal lines that I hadn’t heard since the original tracking sessions at Rockfield, and a new clarity given to subtle flute and electric sax lines. The stereo mixes included here are themselves great, and the 5.1s are a revelation! Not in a whizzo cinematic sense, no mind-blowing pyrotechnics, just more space for everything to exist, more depth to get engrossed in.’

Hugh Button ; ‘It’s almost 50 years since Pawn Hearts was released in October 1971, the same month as the world’s first-ever microprocessor chip was brought to market. Even the humble pocket calculator had yet to make much of an appearance, and an FM radio in a car was usually an optional extra. It’s quite hard now to recall a world where the technology for recording music consisted solely of tape recorders.

“Trident Studios had a pristine Hammond C3 and what has been described as ‘the best rock’n’roll piano ever’, a vintage Bechstein, always a treat to play; I believe all four of us contributed piano parts to varying degrees. Rockfield possibly managed to surpass even that with their Bӧsendorfer. Using the pedals on an organ was by no means unfamiliar to me. I’d habitually visualized imaginary bass-pedal lines ever since I first played a pipe organ at school during the ‘60s. Nevertheless the band’s switch from Nic Potter on Fender bass to me on Hammond pedals proceeded at impossible speed, with barely six days between the two gigs. Intrepid youth!’

Peter Hammill ; ‘Well here we are as young men, pushing away, exploring away. This is about as comprehensive a documentation of that exciting time in our lives as it’s possible to get. We had the luck to be given an enormous amount of freedom by Charisma Records to find our own way – and an audience – from the outset. This meant we pushed ourselves as much as we could.

It’s wonderful to have the whole recorded history of those years collected together as a complete set and the new mixes shed quite a different light on many of the pieces. Somewhat to our own surprise, we’ve had a later lease of life after our reunion album and concerts. And as the trio of Hugh, Guy and myself, we’re still working away and will be playing live again as soon as circumstances allow us. This remains a fun job.’

‘The Charisma Years 1970-1979’ 3 Eylül 2021’de çıkıyor.

1 – CD: “The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other” (Charisma CAS 1007) – February 1970

Darkness (11/11)

Refugees

White Hammer

Whatever Would Robert Have Said?

Out of My Book

After the Flood

Bonus tracks:

Refugees (single version)

Boat of Millions of Years

BBC Radio One “Top Gear” session – 20th January 1970:

Darkness

After the Flood

2 – CD: “H to He Who Am the Only One” (Charisma CAS 1027) – December 1970

Killer

House with No Door

The Emperor in His War Room

Lost

Pioneers Over C

Bonus track:

Killer (first version) – Previously unreleased

The Emperor in His War Room (first version)

BBC Radio One “Top Gear” session – 12th October 1970

Lost – Previously unreleased

Killer – Previously unreleased

3 – CD: “Pawn Hearts” (Charisma CAS 1051) – October 1971

Lemmings (including Cog)

Man Erg

A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

Bonus tracks – BBC Radio One “Sounds of the Seventies” session – 10th June 1971:

Man Erg

Theme One

Vision

Darkness

4 – CD: “The Pawn Hearts Sessions”

Theme One – A side of single – Released as Charisma CB 175 in February 1972

W – B-side of single – Released as Charisma CB 175 in February 1972

The Pawn Hearts sessions:

Squid / Octopus

Angle of Incidents

Ponker’s Theme

Dimunitions

W (first version)

Theme One (original mix)

BBC Radio One John Peel Concert – 23rd September 1971

Man Erg

W

Killer

BBC Radio One John Peel session – 14th December 1971

Refugees

5 – CD: “Godbluff” (Charisma CAS 1109) – October 1975

The Undercover Man

Scorched Earth

Arrow

The Sleepwalkers

Bonus tracks – BBC Radio One John Peel session – 3rd July 1975

Scorched Earth

The Sleepwalkers

6 – CD: “Live in Rimini 9th August 1975”

A Louse is Not a Home

(In the) Black Room / The Tower

Forsaken Gardens

Lemmings

Scorched Earth

Man-Erg

7 – CD: “Still Life” (Charisma CAS 1116) – April 1976

Pilgrims

Still Life

La Rossa

My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)

Childlike Faith in Childhood’s End

Bonus tracks:

Gog (live) – Recorded at the Theatr Gwynedd, Bangor, Wales 10th May 1975

BBC Radio One John Peel session – 1st April 1976:

Still Life

La Rossa

8 – CD: “World Record” (Charisma CAS 1120) – October 1976

When She Comes

A Place to Survive

Masks

Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild)

Wondering

Bonus tracks – BBC Radio One John Peel session – 11th November 1976:

When She Comes

Masks

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

B-side of single – October 1976

9 – CD: Live at Maison de la Mutualite´, Paris 6th December 1976 Previously unreleased

Arrow

When She Comes

Masks

Still Life

Lemmings

Childlike Faith in Childhood’s End

10 – CD: Live at Maison de la Mutualite´, Paris 6th December 1976 Previously unreleased

Meurglys III (The Songwriter’s Guild)

Gog

Sleepwalkers

Killer

Man-Erg

11 – CD: “The Quiet Zone / The Pleasure Dome” (Charisma CAS 1131) – September 1977

Lizard Play

The Habit of the Broken Heart

The Siren Song

Last Frame

The Wave

Cat’s Eye / Yellow Fever (Running)

The Sphinx in the Face

Chemical World

The Sphinx Returns

Bonus tracks:

Door

Ship of Fools

B-side of single

The Wave (demo version)

BBC Radio One John Peel session – 24th October 1977

Cat’s Eye / Yellow Fever

The Sphinx in the Face

(Fragments of) A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers / Sleepwalker’s End

12 – CD: “Vital” (Charisma CVLD 101) – July 1978

Ship of Fools

Still Life

Last Frame

Mirror Images

Medley: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers / Sleepwalkers

13 – CD: “Vital” (Charisma CVLD 101) – July 1978

Pioneers Over C

Sci-Finance

Door

Urban / Killer / Urban

Nadir’s Big Chance

14 – CD: “H to He Who Am the Only One” – THE NEW STEREO MIX

Killer

House with No Door

The Emperor in His War Room

Lost

Pioneers Over C

15 – CD: “Pawn Hearts” – THE NEW STEREO MIX

Lemmings (including Cog)

Man Erg

A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

Eyewitness

Pictures / Lighthouse

Eyewitness

SHM

Presence of the Night

Kosmos Tours

(Custard’s) Last Stand

The Clot Thickens

Land’s End (Sineline)

We Go Now

Bonus tracks:

Theme One (new stereo mix)

W (new stereo mix)

CD 16: “Godbluff” – THE NEW STEREO MIX

The Undercover Man

Scorched Earth

Arrow

The Sleepwalkers

CD 17: “Still Life” – THE NEW STEREO MIX

Pilgrims

Still Life

La Rossa

My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)

Childlike Faith in Childhood’s End

18 – Blu-ray Disc:

“H to He Who Am the Only One”

High resolution 5.1 Surround Sound Mix / New Stereo Mix / Original stereo mix

Killer

House with No Door

The Emperor in His War Room

Lost

Pioneers Over C

“Pawn Hearts”

High resolution 5.1 Surround Sound Mix / New Stereo Mix / Original stereo mix

Lemmings (including Cog)

Man Erg

A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

Eyewitness

Pictures / Lighthouse

Eyewitness

SHM

Presence of the Night

Kosmos Tours

(Custard’s) Last Stand

The Clot Thickens

Land’s End (Sineline)

We Go Now

19 – Blu-ray Disc:

“Godbluff”

High resolution 5.1 Surround Sound Mix / New Stereo Mix / Original stereo mix

The Undercover Man

Scorched Earth

Arrow

The Sleepwalkers

“Still Life”

High resolution 5.1 Surround Sound Mix / New Stereo Mix / Original stereo mix

Pilgrims

La Rossa

My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)

Childlike Faith in Childhood’s End

20 – Blu-ray Disc

The video vaults:

Darkness

Whatever Would Robert Have Said

“Beat Club” – German TV 23rd June 1970

Previously unreleased

Lost

Killer

Octopus

“Pop Deux” – Filmed at The Bataclan Theatre, Paris 18th March 1972 – Broadcast 27th May 1972 on French TV

Previously unreleased

Theme One

A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

“Pop Shop” – Recorded 23rd March 1972 – Broadcast RTBF TV, Belgium 21st September 1972

FIRST OFFICIAL RELEASE

The Undercover Man

Arrow

Scorched Earth

Sleepwalkers

“Live in Charleroi Palais des Expos – 27th September 1975” – Broadcast RTBF TV Belgium 17th April 1976

FIRST OFFICIAL RELEASE

Wondering (Charisma promotional film 1976) – Previously unreleased

Cat’s Eye (Charisma promotional film) – Previously unreleased

Van der Graaf in Concert – The Kohfidisch Open Air Festival, Austria 17th June 1978

Broadcast by ORF TV, Austria 1st July 1978