Launched 23rd August by way of Cooking Vinyl, ‘Pyramid’ might be to be had on more than a few codecs together with a Tremendous Deluxe Field Set which incorporates 4CDS, 1 audio Blu-ray disc and a 45rpm 180g heavyweight 2LP vinyl version – part pace remastered by means of Miles Showell at Abbey Street Studios which is available in a gatefold sleeve. With an extra 67 bonus tracks (54 in the past unreleased) taken from Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diaries and studio consultation out-takes, the Field Set additionally includes a breathtaking first ever Dolby Atmos mixture of an Alan Parsons Mission album at the side of a placing 5.1 Encompass Sound combine from the unique multi-track grasp tapes by means of Parsons at the side of a brand new stereo HD and CD remaster of the unique album by means of Showell. Additionally integrated is a completely illustrated 12” x 12” casebound e book that includes interviews with Parsons, the Woolfson circle of relatives and the musicians, in addition to complete lyrics and observation at the bonus tracks and an A1 measurement poster and copy press equipment folder.
The Expanded CD unencumber options Showell’s 2024 remaster of the unique album along 4 further bonus tracks and a completely illustrated 12-booklet containing a sleevenote that includes quotes from Parsons in addition to complete lyrics. The album may be to be had as 180 gm transparent vinyl LP plus a D2C unique, restricted version 180gm gold nugget vinyl LP – each that includes Showell’s part pace remasters of the unique album at Abbey Street Studios, along sleevenotes that includes quotes from Parsons, the Woolfson circle of relatives and musicians.
An idea album focussed at the pyramids of Giza, when ‘Pyramid’ was once initially conceived, pastime in pyramid energy and Tutankhamun was once standard in the USA and the United Kingdom. A pyramid may well be discovered at the again of a buck invoice, and there have been tales within the nationwide media concerning the intended magical homes of pyramids and there was once in fact the duvet of Purple Floyd’s ‘Darkish Aspect of the Moon’ (1973). With songs just like the provocative instrumental ‘Voyager’ which underlines the album’s supernatural temper and the sparkling ‘What Is going Up’, to the symphonic and bombastic ‘Within the Lap of the Gods’ and anxiety-ridden ‘Pyramania’, the point of interest on ‘Pyramid’ was once top of the range studio sound manufacturing which might grow to be The Alan Parsons Mission trademark.
The album was once recorded at Abbey Street Studios as had been the vast majority of The Alan Parsons Mission albums, with quite a few other lead vocalists hired together with John Miles, Colin Blunstone, Lenny Zakatek, David Paton, Jack Harris and Dean Ford, along a choice of consultation musicians together with guitarist Ian Bairnson and drummer Stuart Elliott. The album was once a world hit promoting neatly in way over two million copies, reaching platinum and gold standing in a large number of territories together with america, Germany and Canada. The album was once additionally nominated for the 1978 Grammy Award for Absolute best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
Tremendous Deluxe Field Set contains 4CDs, an audio blu-ray disc, a 45rpm 180g 2LP vinyl version – part pace remastered by means of Miles Showell at Abbey Street Studios in a gatefold sleeve, 67 bonus tracks (54 in the past unreleased) taken from Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diaries and studio consultation out-takes, a primary ever Dolby Atmos mixture of an Alan Parsons Mission album, a 5.1 Encompass Sound combine from the unique multi-track grasp tapes by means of Alan Parsons, a brand new stereo HD and CD remaster of the unique album by means of Miles Showell, a completely illustrated, 12” x 12” 60-page casebound e book and a reproduction press folder
Expanded CD unencumber contains 2024 remaster of the unique album, 4 further bonus tracks + 12-page booklet together with Alan Parsons quotes in addition to complete lyrics
Vinyl LP codecs come with a 180gm transparent vinyl plus a restricted version D2C unique 180gm gold nugget vinyl – each that includes Showell’s part pace remasters of the unique album at Abbey Street Studios, with sleevenotes that includes quotes from Alan Parsons, the Woolfson circle of relatives and musicians
Atmosphere the usual in revolutionary rock all through its energetic length between 1975 and 1987, The Alan Parsons Mission constructed from engineer/manufacturer Alan Parsons and songwriter, musician and supervisor Eric Woolfson. In combination, they launched 10 albums and focussed on matter issues together with science fiction, supernatural, literary and sociological subject matters. They’ve offered in way over 55 million albums world-wide, keeping up a faithful cult target audience.
Parsons and Woolfson first met within the canteen of Abbey Street Studios in the summertime of 1974. Parsons was once Assistant Engineer at the Beatles’ albums ‘Abbey Street’ (1969) and ‘Let It Be (1970)’ and was once additionally engineer on Purple Floyd’s ‘The Darkish Aspect of the Moon’ (1973). Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was once running as a consultation pianist whilst composing subject matter for an idea album in accordance with the paintings of American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe. Forging a longstanding running and industry dating, Woolfson felt the track industry may neatly grow to be a manufacturer’s medium and he noticed a solution to mix his and Parsons’s skills. Parsons started to supply and engineer songs written and composed by means of Eric, and The Alan Parsons Mission was once shaped.
Tremendous Deluxe Field Set Tracklisting
2 x 45RPM LPs:
Aspect 1
1. ‘Voyager’
2. ‘What Is going Up…’
3. ‘The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’
Aspect 2
1. ‘One Extra River’
2. ‘Can’t Take It With You’
Aspect 3
1. ‘In The Lap Of The Gods’
2. ‘Pyramania’
Aspect 4
1. ‘Hyper-Gamma-Areas’
2. ‘Shadow Of A Lonely Guy’
CD1 – Authentic Album 2024 Remaster Plus Expanded Bonus Tracks
1. ‘Voyager’
2. ‘What Is going Up…’
3. ‘The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’
4. ‘One Extra River’
5. ‘Can’t Take It With You’
6. ‘In The Lap Of The Gods’
7. ‘Pyramania’
8. ‘Hyper-Gamma-Areas’
9. ‘Shadow Of A Lonely Guy’
Bonus Tracks
10. ‘Voyager/ What Is going Up…/ The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’ (Instrumental Model)
11. ‘What Is going Up…/ Little Voice’ (Early Model Demo)
12. ‘Can’t Take It With You’ (Early Model Demo)
13. ‘Hyper-Gamma-Areas’ (Demo)
14. ‘The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’ (Choice Model Backing Monitor)
15. ‘In The Lap Of The Gods Phase 1’ (Demo)
16. ‘In The Lap Of The Gods Phase 2’ (Backing Monitor Tough Combine)
CD2 – Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diaries
1. ‘Pyramid Construction Speaking’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
2. ‘Little Voice/ What Is going Up…’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
3. ‘The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
4. ‘One Extra River’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
5. ‘In The Lap of the Gods’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
6. ‘Pyramania’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
7. ‘Damaged/Pyramania’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
8. ‘Shadow of a Lonely Guy’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
9. ‘Get started of writing Gemini for Eye within the Sky’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
10. ‘Get started of writing Not anything Left to Lose for TOFC’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
11. ‘Get started of writing Snake Eyes for TOFC’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
Up to now Unreleased Songs
12. ‘Pyramid Instrumental’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
13. ‘Pyramid Clavichord’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
14. ‘Little Voice’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
15. ‘Damaged’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
16. ‘On It Is going’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
17. ‘Open Your Eyes’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
18. ‘If I May Do It All Once more’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
19. ‘We Can Do It’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
20. ‘Taking It All Away’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
21. ‘Elsie’s Theme’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
22. ‘Hazel’s Theme’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
23. ‘My Identify Is Lorna’ (Eric Woolfson’s Songwriting Diary)
CD3 – Bonus Studio Recordings Vol.1
1. ‘Voyager’ (Backing Monitor Out Take)
2. ‘Voyager’ (Early Level)
3. ‘Voyager’ (Vocal Experiment)
4. ‘Voyager’ (Gentle Aid Jam)
5. ‘Voyager’ (Early Combine)
6. ‘Voyager’ (John Leach Kantele Take)
7. ‘What Is going Up…/ Little Voice’ (Demo)
8. ‘What Is going Up…’ (Dean Ford Vocal Take)
9. ‘What Is going Up…’ (Remoted Choir Take)
10. ‘What Is going Up…’ (Early Tough Combine)
11. ‘What Is going Up…’ (Choir)
12. ‘The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’ (Colin Blunstone Vocal Take Excerpts)
13. ‘The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’ (Tough Combine That includes Backing Vocals)
14. ‘The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’ (Orchestral Strings)
15. ‘The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’ (Tough Combine Backing Monitor)
CD4 – Bonus Studio Recordings Vol. 2
1. ‘One Extra River’ (Intro Takes)
2. ‘One Extra River’ (Lenny Zakatek Lead Vocal Takes)
3. ‘One Extra River’ (Lenny Zakatek Vocal Gymnastic Takes)
4. ‘One Extra River’ (Experimental Destroy)
5. ‘Can’t Take It With You’ (Tough Combine)
6. ‘In The Lap of the Gods’ (John Leach Cimbalom Takes)
7. ‘In The Lap of the Gods’ (Choir Takes)
8. ‘Within the Lap of the Gods’ (Backing Monitor Takes)
9. ‘In The Lap of the Gods’ (Orchestral Strings)
10. ‘In The Lap Of The Gods’ (Hail To The King Choir)
11. ‘Hyper-Gamma-Areas’ (Projectron)
12. ‘Shadow of a Lonely Guy’ (Eric Woolfson’s Piano Take)
13. ‘Shadow of a Lonely Guy’ (Alan Parsons’ Experimental Demo Vocal)
14. ‘Shadow of a Lonely Guy’ (Eric Woolfson’s Demo Vocal)
15. ‘Shadow of a Lonely Guy’ (Orchestral Woodwind)
16. ‘Shadow Of A Lonely Guy’ (Olive Simpson Backing Vocals)
Miscellaneous
17. ‘Pyramid’ US Radio Ad 1
18. ‘Pyramid’ US Radio Ad 2
19. ‘Pyramid’ Bob Harris Cinema Playback Advent
20. ‘Pyramid Audio Information’ Alan Parsons Statement
21. ‘Pyramid Audio Information’ Eric Woolfson Statement 1
22. ‘Pyramid Audio Information’ Eric Woolfson Statement 2
Blu-ray Dolby Atmos/5.1 Encompass Sound remixed by means of Alan Parsons 2024 – Authentic album remastered in Stereo 2024
1. ‘Voyager’
2. ‘What Is going Up…’
3. ‘The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’
4. ‘One Extra River’
5. ‘Can’t Take It With You’
6. ‘In The Lap Of The Gods’
7. ‘Pyramania’
8. ‘Hyper-Gamma-Areas’
9. ‘Shadow Of A Lonely Guy’
Expanded CD Tracklisting
1. ‘Voyager’
2. ‘What Is going Up…’
3. ‘The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’
4. ‘One Extra River’
5. ‘Can’t Take It With You’
6. ‘In The Lap Of The Gods’
7. ‘Pyramania’
8. ‘Hyper-Gamma-Areas’
9. ‘Shadow Of A Lonely Guy’
Bonus Tracks
10. ‘Voyager’ (Early Combine)
11. ‘What Is going Up…’ (Early Tough Combine)
12. ‘The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’ (Tough Combine That includes Backing Vocals)
13. ‘Shadow Of A Lonely Guy’ (Eric Woolfson Demo Vocal)
Vinyl LP Tracklisting
Aspect 1
1. ‘Voyager’
2. ‘What Is going Up…’
3. ‘The Eagle Will Upward push Once more’
4. ‘One Extra River’
5. ‘Can’t Take It With You’
Aspect 2
1. ‘In The Lap Of The Gods’
2. ‘Pyramania’
3. ‘Hyper-Gamma-Areas’
4. ‘Shadow Of A Lonely Guy’
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