Though Keith Emerson died in March 2016, the influential body of work left behind by the keyboardist, arranger and composer lives on. A decade before his untimely passing, Emerson compiled a disc's worth of previously unreleased tracks. He described 2006's Off the Shelf as "a veritable cornucopia of potpourri within an audio montage!" Now, that collection has been reissued by Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint for those fans of the late artist who missed it the first time. Emerson
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Chicago, Quadio (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD / Amazon Canada) This week's biggest and most hotly-anticipated release, Chicago's Quadio, brings together nine albums from the legendary band in remastered high-resolution 192/24 DTS-HD Master Audio in both their original quadraphonic and stereo mixes on nine Blu-ray discs. This lavish celebration of the Windy City's favorite band is housed in a rigid two-piece box, with every album
In the midst of the usual catalogue activity for Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint has a new treasure for fans of keyboardist Keith Emerson. The 3-CD box set Keith Emerson at the Movies collects Emerson’s scores for seven motion pictures originally released between 1980’s Inferno and 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars. The set was originally released in 2005 on the Castle label, but has since gone out-of-print. This version features the same tracks, but adds new