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 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:
* CCS – “Tap Turns On The Water”
- 2-disc anthology
* Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends – "Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends"
- with Jimmy Page and Noel Redding
* MAN – “The Welsh connection”
- 2-disc edition with a bonus live CD
Wait for the music and the reviews, then.