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Release Date: 2021-11-19Label: Song Cycle Records
LP + CD + Deluxe photo-book, 30 x 30 cm, 96 pp., 73 photos, 7 illustrationsThis box set compiles two prior standalone releases within a new custom slipcase:
Solaris. Sound and Vision: The Film Album (Book and CD, Song Cycle Records, CY001CD)
Solaris Original Soundtrack (LP, Mirumir, MIR 100705)
The book and LP are each individually sealed as standalone releases housed inside the new slipcase for this box set edition. If you already own these prior releases, the only thing new here is the slipcase. And the slipcase itself is not entirely new, either, as it features the "Meadow" variant cover art from the 2013 Superior Viaduct re-issue of the soundtrack LP (SV018).
Note: this box is substantially different from Song Cycle's earlier 2018 box set (CY001), which contains the same film book and CD but includes their own re-issue of the LP soundtrack (CY001LP, licensed from Mirumir) along with a BluRay disc of the film (CY001BD, licensed from the Curzon / Artifical Eye release). The CY001 set comes housed in a custom box with a sleeve for the book, a sleeve for the LP, and two digipack wells for the CD and BluRay. The box uses the cover art from the standalone film book release.
Distributor's Blurb:
Song Cycle Records in collaboration with the Andrey Tarkovsky International Institute present the release of Solaris. Sound And Vision – The Film Album, a collector’s edition book that includes the exclusive photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Artemiev/Tarkovsky, and the soundtrack on Vinyl and CD realised by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for the Andrey Tarkovsky’s masterpiece film Solaris (1972).
List of Book Contents: Dialogue with Andrey Tarkovsky about science-fiction on the screen by Naum Abramov Interview with Edward Artemiev Music in Solaris and other Andrey Tarkovsky films by Roberto Calabretto Exclusive and unreleased images from Solaris