It’s been a few years now since this site started working with good folks at the Esoteric label, one of the best in the reissues world and a purveyor of great new releases on their Antenna imprint. They’ve just published a list of their forthcoming CDs, and there’s much to be salivating about. So it goes like this.

May

* HAWKWIND - “Warrior On The Edge Of Time”:

• single digipack;
• 3-disc clamshell box (bonus tracks, a remix, 5.1 surround mix by Steven Wilson);
• box Set (vinyl, postcards, poster etc. + 3-disc edition.

* Henry Lowther – “Childsong”

* GINHOUSE – “Ginhouse”

* Alan Hull – “Squire”

* VANILLA FUDGE – “Rock & Roll”

June

* Steve Hackett – "Tokyo Tapes":

• 2CD / DVD (NTSC region free) +  a  new bonus track, “All Along The Watchtower” with John Wetton

* QUATERMASS - “Quatermass”:-

• 2-disc edition with a remix and 5.1 surround by Peter Robinson (read interview with Q’s John Gustafson and watch this space for interview with Mick Underwood)

* SPHINCTER ENSEMBLE – “Harrodian Event #1″:

• previously unreleased 1972 sessions featuring J. Peter Robinson (QUATERMASS / BRAND X), Paul Buckmaster, John Gustafson and Martyn Ford)

* Bill Nelson – “Iconography”

* Bob Downes – “Deep Down Heavy”

* BURNIN’ RED IVANHOE – “Canal Trip”

• 2-disc anthology

Pete Brown / Phil Ryan – “Ardours Of The Lost Rake / Coals To Jerusalem”

July

* Gordon Giltrap:

• “Visionary”
• “Perilous Journey”
• “Fear Of The Dark”

* CCS – “Tap Turns On The Water”

• 2-disc anthology

* Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends – “Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends”

• with Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page, Mick Abrahams, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell and Adrian Gurvitz

* MAN – “The Welsh connection”

• 2-disc edition with a bonus live CD

Wait for the music and the reviews, then.