REISSUES 2022
…NEIL YOUNG has said recordings of CSNY at the Fillmore East in 1970 are “in the pre-production phase”. There will also be further releases in his Official Bootleg Series, and hopes for a 50th anniversary edition of Harvest are high …the opening of CAN’s live archive continues in 2022. Next up is a gig recorded in Cuxhaven in 1975. “It’s very interesting and I like it very much,” says the group’s keyboardist Irmin Schmidt. “If there are early recordings of our concerts with Damo
[Suzuki, vocals], I’ll try to get some of them.” He adds the notion of polishing up the legendary ur-Can tape Prehistoric Future is “not a bad idea” …a multi-format Super Deluxe Edition of KAREN DALTON’s (above) In My Own Time is released in March, expanded with alternate studio takes and six unreleased live performances in Germany and Switzerland in 1971 …the back catalogue of independent legends FELT will be reissued in radically re-designed typographical sleeves. New vinyl versions of the group’s compilations Bubblegum Perfume and Gold Mine Trash will also be released …there’s speculation that the next PRINCE (right) album to be expanded with outtakes and rarities will be 1991’s Diamonds And Pearls … with a title devised by the late Still Barking is a 20-disc box set of THE BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND. Overseen by the surviving Bonzos with audio supervised by Andrew Sandoval, it will contain all of the group’s official albums, singles, BBC sessions, demos, curios, outtakes, mono and stereo mixes and live performances, plus a lavishly-illustrated book. Three DVDs will feature all of their appearances on ‘60s TV show Do Not Adjust Your Set and more rare performances …coming in spring, CABARET VOLTAIRE’s albums The Crackdown, Micro-Phonies and The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord will be re-released on coloured vinyl …in March,
THE CORAL release remastered editions of their debut album: two unheard songs from the original sessions, Tumble Graves and She’s The Girl For Me, will appear on a bonus disc …in ’22 the Cherry Red label will release a recording of THE FALL’s first gig, from May 1977, as part of a larger box set focusing on the group’s early years …a collection of official KRAFTWERK remixes will be released next year, also featuring some new re-edits of classic songs … box set compiler of note Andrew is preparing two new BOBBIE GENTRY projects and a MARIANNE FAITHFULL compilation: he’s also working on reissues of RICHARD THOMPSON, DANA GILLESPIE and SANDY DENNY …the first fruits of JOE MEEK’s rescued ‘Tea Chest Tapes’ arrives in the middle of ’22: a 60th anniversary 10-inch mini-album of The Tornados’ worldwide hit Telstar will feature sound effects, alternate versions, demos and the song remastered by producer and Meek fanatic Alan Wilson of Bristol’s Western Star Studio. Wilson muses that among the other 1,850-plus tapes he’s been trawling, “there’ll be some stuff we won’t be able to identify – there’s a compilation in itself…”