The Iconoclassic label kicks off their year in reissues with some exciting surprise expansions of some great '70s and '80s titles. The three titles, which have no street dates or official track lists as of yet, are nonetheless tantalizing. The label has handled a good portion of expanding and remastering the catalogue of Canadian rockers The Guess Who; this campaign's latest installment will see the reissue of Flavours (1975) for its 35th anniversary. The album, which included the last Guess
Archives for March 3, 2011
Soundtracks Round-Up: New Releases from FSM and Perseverance
We've got some soundtrack news from all over the place to share with you today. Film Score Monthly has prepped its latest release, a double-premiere of dramatic scores by Lalo Schifrin (for the 1977 Charles Bronson thriller Telefon) and Leonard Rosenman (for the 1980 James Caan vehicle Hide in Plain Sight). Rosenman's score is particularly notable on this disc, as almost none of it ended up in the final film. This set is limited to 2,000 copies. The label has also announced their next few
Legendary Lost Love LP to Be Unearthed in June
One of the more legendary lost albums of the 1970s - Love's Black Beauty - is getting its first legitimate release this summer. Love remains one of the great unsung bands of the 1960s. Known for its racially diverse lineup - black singer/songwriter/guitarist Arthur Lee is arguably the best-known member of the group - and the psych-folk-rock style of their critically acclaimed 1967 LPs Da Capo and Forever Changes, Love left a legacy that has outlived most of its members (including Lee, who died
Barry Manilow Revisits His Classic "Duets" on New Collection
While Barry Manilow's fans patiently wait for 15 Minutes, his first album of all original material since 2001's Here at the Mayflower, Arista and Legacy will offer a chance to look back at some past moments in Manilow's long career. Duets compiles fifteen teamings, some more difficult to find than others, spanning the period between 1980 ("The Last Duet" with Lily Tomlin, from Barry) and 2008 ("Islands in the Stream" with Reba McEntire, from The Greatest Songs of the Eighties.) This 15-track
Prince Comes Back 2 Vinyl
It's perhaps the second-best Prince news next to CD remasters: Prince's three albums of the 1980s are being repressed on vinyl. Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981) and the double-album 1999 (1982) are all being repressed on 180-gram vinyl. While they don't seem to (and likely will not) boast new remastering, it's particularly interesting to see Prince's Warner Bros. catalogue getting any kind of attention by Rhino - especially some of the earlier, bawdier works that the devout Jehovah's
Back to the Grid: "TRON: Legacy" Remixes Coming in April
It's not often here at The Second Disc that we get to report on a reissue project devoted to a release that's only three months old. But that's just the case of Daft Punk's acclaimed score to Tron: Legacy. The novice film composers deftly paid homage to Wendy Carlos' score to the original TRON, judiciously incorporating it into their work while carving out their own territory with a mix of ambient sounds, techno-style synthpop and traditional orchestral motifs. While the Academy Awards