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Sometimes older albums are remastered, improving the sound quality. A new pressing is made for this as well. Differences in artwork or small production errors can also make a specific version more attractive.
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Genre:Rock Style:Prog Rock
Tracklist:
A1. The Advent Of Panurge A2. Raconteur, Troubadour A3. A Cry For Everyone A4. Knots B1. The Boys In The Band B2. Dog's Life B3. Think Of Me With Kindness B4. River
General notes about this release (please note: our version may differ a little. see the comments above):
180g black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with the original European artwork including all lyrics.
50th anniversary reissue of the original mix.
This 2020 edition is remastered from the original mixes. As Ray Shulman has said:
"The tapes used were the original quarter inch masters from the Phonogram/Universal archive. They were digitised at 24bit/192khz from a Studer A80 Mkii Tape Machine. Tape machine line up and bias settings are critical in faithfully reproducing the masters, so we thought it best to send digital files, that we knew were correctly transferred, to the cutting room. That way we didn't have to rely on unknown inferior tape machines."
To be clear, these 2020 releases do not use any of the later Steven Wilson mixes and Steven did not remaster any of them.
