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Very good question! I recall reading that a much more elaborate cover was planned for the Emerson, Lake & Powell album. My dim recollection was that Giger had actually designed some prototypes. Why...

Replying to an old thread, since I couldn't find anything relevant on this album (La Nuova Raccomandata con Ricevuta di Ritorno's "In Rock"). I downloaded it from Bandcamp a few years ago and...

Not sure what was in the first post, but the YouTube link in post #4 still works and it appears to be from his official YouTube channel.

I don't remember that happening. It's certainly possible.

Off topic, but I was doing a Google search on the HVF CD releases and Google's (presumably) AI-generated "People Also Ask" Q&A had this...

Greg's "Feedback, Feedback, Feedback" shout is at 8:44 during Tarkus/Stones of Years in the 2CD HVF release that came out shortly after the festival. It was edited out of the Bluray.

I recall reading that they rehearsed quite a bit for the HVF show. Here's some excerpts from an Ultimate Classic Rock article from 2016...

An amazing, pristine video. Thanks for posting! Mauro Pagani is terrific on violin. The bass player doesn't look like Djivas. I assume it's Piazza, who was the original bassist.

I've become obsessed by this George Martin composition. I was surprised to read that Cozy Powell covered it in 1979. Here's an interesting drum cover of the Cozy version by a young heavy metal...

Wow! I was not familiar with this song. It just goes to show the brilliance of George Martin. It's hard to believe that this is from 1967.

I had a recollection of seeing a video of "All I Want Is You" from Love Beach. Here's the YouTube link from an old Top of the Pops BBC program.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf31C3eNSxM

The extended concept piece, The House of Ocean Born Mary, is very good. I don't think it's up to standards of Tarkus or Karn Evil 9, but I enjoy listening to it on occasion. I particularly like the...

That looks like something from "Castle in the Sky" from Studio Ghibli. Time to sue the AI? Or did Miyazaki steal the idea from Roger Dean?

I was listening to this album today for the first time in a while. I have to admit I like Memoirs more than most posters here. But, yes, the GX-1 sound is problematic on this album. It didn't sound...

Ditto! I have all of these with the exception of Picchio dal Pozzo, which I was never able to get into.

Emerson's KE Band Live in Moscow (2008) DVD/Bluray showed him having fun, even though it was clear that he was having issues with his hands. This had a hugely different vibe compared to the High...

Many thanks! It's a similar show to Cobo and maybe slightly better quality. The camera angle is different.

Also, thanks, Dan Roth, for the ELPowell interview. It's interesting to read some of the...

I've watched a low-quality VHS bootleg video of their concert in Detroit's Cobo Hall several times. Even with the poor video quality, this looked like an excellent show. Are there any other videos...

Banco at Nearfest 2001 was pretty near perfect for me.

I've always been fine with side 2. I even like "Are You Ready Eddy?". The version sung by Rick Livingstone (formerly with The Best), from the Keith Emerson tribute concert bluray, was also fun.

As noted above, Keith Emerson has done a few. My favorite is “Inferno”. The soundtrack is outstanding. I tried watching the movie years ago and I couldn’t finish it!

This is really neat!

At his "The Harmony Codex" album playback at the Curzon Bloomsbury two weeks ago, a member of the audience asked him about AI/ML and its impact on music. He talked about it...

Similar to some recent magazine interviews, he did confirm that there would be a supporting tour eventually. His words last night were something like "not soon." Since he's looking at venues that...

I attended one of the two spatial audio playback performances of The Harmony Codex at the Curzon Bloomsbury today. The theater is equipped with a gazillion speakers to provide Dolby Atmos playback....

I bought my first CD player, a Toshiba, in 1984. I recall that I purchased three CDs along with the player, one was Avalon by Roxy Music (the other two were Synchronicity and Beethoven's 5th Symphony...

I don't think that I've ever watched this before! Jungles and deserts. Is this Africa or Asia; oh, who cares! And that Egyptian girl sure looks British to me.

I was looking at some of the references in the Unknown Balad wiki article that I referenced above. There was a Carl Palmer interview from 2014 called "Tank for the Memories"...

Yes, the Jakszyk remixes of Trilogy and BSS were in the same series (Sony-released) as the first two remixes by Wilson. There are so many remasters/reissues of the ELP catalog, that I'm not certain...

Fifty years! My older brother bought this, probably on or immediately after its initial release. I enjoyed your review. I remember being fascinated, as a 15-year-old, with the third impression and...

Wilson (or more likely one of his team) just posted on Twitter that he's doing another spatial audio "pitchblack" playback of The Harmony Codex in an immersive environment at the Curzon Bloomsbury in...

December 8 for physical release according to Twitter.

The latest Prog magazine features Keith on the cover and two articles about him, tying in with the new retrospective album box set release. One article is by Rick Wakeman and is quite funny and...

I bought the digital download while I was on vacation in Japan a few weeks ago. I only listened to a few of the tracks then. I've made an effort to listen to the album straight through several times...

I love the DVD for the Tokyo concert and I agree that the singer is terrific. The video highlights you posted from Rustici's Youtube site are in 1080p format. It's unfortunate that this concert never...

About a month ago there was a post on this thread about an upcoming Wilson interview with Anil Prasad. I went to Anil's site this evening and it's there! I'm not sure how long ago it was posted to...

Ah, one of the very few advantages of a digital booklet compared to a physical copy!

I bought the "deluxe" digital download a day or two after the album's release. It comes with a digital booklet, which I assumed was the same as what one would find in the CD package. On page 2 of the...

I did read somewhere that he was considering different options for a tour supporting THC. One idea was for residencies at smaller venues (not sure if this was UK specific). He was interested in a...

Interesting that Canada was no issue. I finally managed to purchase it using my iPhone with Apple Pay and an Apple card. Download of the tracks was very fast.

I'm on Wilson's mailing list. I received an email yesterday with an announcement that his online store was selling a digital download of the new album, with some bonus tracks, and a digital booklet...

And I hope that his wife doesn’t join the forthcoming tour on keyboards! A little too Paul and Linda for me.

But seriously, I’m pleased to read the positive accounts of this album playback session...

Does anyone have this? It appears to be out. I'm very interested in people's impressions of the Steven Wilson stereo remix of the album, which appears to only be available on the Bluray disc from the...

Losing the obi from my Toshiba Japanese CD release of Abbey Road (ca. 1984) cost me dearly when I sold it on eBay about 20 years ago!

Hey thanks, Geoff! I had to make believe that I live in Australia where it's already Tuesday (thanks to VPN). Now this is impressive! On first listen, I like this a lot. And it's been entirely too...

And several hours later, I still have no strong desire to relisten to it. I'm reminded of my reaction to the HCE release in 2015. At that time, I hadn't been following Wilson's solo career at all and...

I found it to be not awful. It was too much like TFB for my taste. I did not like the video.

Wilson states that "Then next week something completely different, the mostly instrumental 11-minute...

Thanks! It's difficult to get too much from this clip. I read a few mini reviews from his recent LA listening session and the overall sense was very positive. I'm looking forward to this. Wilson also...

I saw ELP twice during two of their tours in the 1990s. My record, by far, was seeing Steven Wilson at 5 shows (at 3 venues) during his "To The Bone" Tour (2x Royal Albert Hall, 2x EX Roppongi, and...

Sorry, going off topic here... I do like the live Capolinea album, but I've always felt that it follows closely from their last 70s era studio album, Canto di Primavera. That album, which I found in...

This is quite a find! I've never heard of this soundtrack. I think I'll have to buy this, given my pretty complete Banco collection. The first song has a bit of the feel of their live album,...

I didn't know about either the Gonzo or Esoteric reissues. I'll have to look for these. Thanks for mentioning both.

I've always loved this album. I also thought that it was very brave to record an album without Francesco's vocals. I didn't realize that they performed this live. Thanks for the video.

It was nice to hear some semi-random fans saying that it was very good. One said that it was his best work since HCE. This sounds promising.

No mention of Discipline.

PT in Manchester playing Trains with real trains going by!

https://twitter.com/StevenWilsonHQ/status/1674836605779992578

A new post from Wilson's Twitter account on The Harmony Codex.

https://twitter.com/StevenWilsonHQ/status/1674451000462131202

It looks like a sign-up (using a scanned QR code) for yet another...

A few weeks ago, his Twitter account posted about this "exclusive immersive audio playback event for my new album The Harmony Codex at a location in London on 12th July"...

I agree with Battema's assessment. Given that the remaining PT summer shows are mostly festival dates, I suspect that there are some serious financial penalties with cancelling as opposed to had they...

This is very difficult...

Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Philadelphia (1977) Sadly with no orchestra, which had been dropped the week before
Banco, Nearfest (2001)
PFM, Mean Fiddler (2003)
Steven...

I saw a tweet from PFM earlier today and noted that the new album was available from iTunes. I just bought and downloaded it. I'm enjoying the live versions of the tracks from the most recent studio...

This is terrific! I learned a lot about the album, like how the connection between the band and Giger was established. And the music used (isolated vocals, alternate takes (?), and some live clips)...