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Release Date: 2023-10-13Label: Spirit Of Unicorn Music
(P) 2023 Keith Emerson Estate under exclusive license to Spirit of Unicorn Music(C) 2023 Keith Emerson Estate under exclusive license to Spirit of Unicorn Music
This compilation (C) 2023 Spirit of Unicorn Music
Photographs: The Keith Emerson Estate, Mari Kawaguchi
Keith Emerson Management: Martin Darvill with Special Thanks to Stewart Young and Tim Fraser-Harding. Assisted by Sam Ashworth for QEDG
Production: Jon Roberts for Cherry Red
Disks held in 4 fold-out sleeves (2 contain 6 disks, 2 contain 4 disks)
68-page booklet (riddled with errors! - see below) including interviews with Marc Bonilla and Terje Mikkelsen and inconsistent notes directly lifted from the original albums (including credits not relevent for this collection - e.g. Photography & Design)
20-page photo album
Disc 1 Tracks 3-13 Licenced courtesy of BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Disc 2 Recorded at Elite Recording Studio & Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas
Disc 4:
Track 6: written for the movie "Murderock"
Track 7: recorded at Abbey Road Studios / recorded during the mixing sessions for and first released on the Japanese edition of "Black Moon"
Track 13: recorded at The Gorge at George, Washington 1996.
Track 14: written for the movie "Best Revenge"
Track 20: recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London October 2 1992
Track 21: recorded on Oscar Peterson's BBC-TV series Piano Party in 1976
Disc 6:
Recorded at Trafalgar Recording Studios - Rome/Compass Point Studios - Nassau, Bahamas.
Produced by Claudio Argento for Productioni Intersound Music Publishers
Disc 7:
Recorded at - Advision Studios / Compass Point Studios / Elite Recording Studio, Nassau, Bahamas
Mixed At - The Village Recorder
Engineer - Paul Hardiman
Engineer - Mott
Disc 8:
Tracks 1-4 Recorded at The Barn and Ollie Studios, London
Tracks 5-15 Recorded at Sonic Studios and Trafalgar Recording Studios, Rome
Disc 9:
Best Revenge: Mastered at - DFI. Booklet credits relate to the original soundtrack album, however only 5 tracks are from that album (i.e., Levon Helm is credited with Vocals but his song "Straight Between The Eyes" actually appears on Disc 18: Off The Shelf)
La Chiesa: Booklet credits relate to the full Emerson/Goblin soundtrack album, however only the Keith Emerson tracks are included in this collection.
Disk 11:
Harmagedon: Recording Studio: Hitokuchizaka Studio, Nikkatsu Studio Center, Sound In Studio. Booklet credits relate to full soundtrack album (including music written by Nozomu Aoki, not included in this collection)
Disk 12:
Executive Producers for Verése Vintage: Cary E. Mansfield and Byron Davis
Mixed by: Arne Akselberg and Ryan Greene at Glenwood Studios, Burbank
Mastered by: Christian Wright at Abbey road Studios, London
Recorded at Bavarian Radio Studios, Munich, Germany, The Greenroom, Studio City, CA, The Blue Corner, Woodland Hills, CA, Tossimo's, North Hollywood, CA, Pearl Sound, Canton, MI
Licenced courtesy of Terje Mikkelsen
(p) 2023 Spirit of the Unicorn productions under license from Brain Salad Records
(c) 2023 Spirit of the Unicorn
Disk 13:
Tracks 1-4 & 6: recorded November 2017 at Abbey road Studios, London
Tracks 5, 7-13 Recorded at Bavarian Radio Studios, Munich Germany
(p) 2023 Spirit of the Unicorn productions under license from Brain Salad Records
(c) 2023 Spirit of the Unicorn
Disc 14: Recorded live in California, 1988; 'Middle Of A Dream' recorded at The Blue Corner
Mastered by Robert Hadley at The Mastering Lab, Ojai
Disc 15 & 16:
Mixed by Keith Wechsler at The Gren Room, assisted by Marc Greene
Mastered by Robert Hadley at The Mastering Lab in Ojai, California
Recorded Live at the Dom Kino Theatre in Moscow, Russia August 2008
Orchestra on 'Malambo' conducted byTerje Mikkelsen and recorded by Arne Akselberg at Abbey Road, London
Piano on 'Moscow Fantasia' recorded by Scott Smith at The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA
Disc 17:
Mixed by Steve Rispin at Liscombe Park Studios
Mastered by Pietrini
Recorded live at Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield CT on 8th May 2010
Disc 19 & 20 (except Bonus Tracks): recorded Live at B.B. King's, NYC 21 May 2004
Writing credit errors
Disc 1:
'The Old Castle/Blues Variation' - credited as Mussorgsky arr. Emerson
'Fugue', 'Karn Evil 9', 'Piano Improvisations Live' are all incorrectly credited as Aaron Copland arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
'Honky Tonk Train Blues' was orchestrated by Alan Cohen
Disc 2: 'Bach Before The Mast' and 'Big Horn Breakdown' incorrectly credited to Keith Emerson
Disk 3: 'Summertime' credited as Emerson instead of Gershwin and 'Montagues And Capulets' credited as Prokofiev/Gershwin
Disc 5: 'Miles Away (Pts 1-3)', 'A Place To Hide' and 'The Parting' credited as co-written by Emerson/Bonilla
Disc 8: 'Tonight Is Your Night' and 'Streets To Blame' only credited to Keith Emerson
Disc 9: 'Prelude 24 (from The Well Tempered Clavier)' composed by JS Bach
Disc 11: 'Godzilla Theme' - Akira Ifukube misspelt as Fukube
Disc 13: 'Malambo' credited to Keith Emerson
Disc 14: 'Long Journey Home' appears to be the Emigration Theme from the soundtrack to the TV series "Long Journey Home", which was written by Paddy Moloney of the Cheiftains (this is also incorrect on the original album)
Disc 16: 'Nutrocker' only credited to Tchaikovsky
Disc 17: 'The Barbarian' credited to Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 'C'est La Vie' only credited to Greg Lake
Disc 18: Lumpy Gravy credited to Emerson instead of Frank Zappa, Arranged (and performed) by The Nice
Disc 19: Rondo is Dave Brubeck's Blue Rondo Ala Turk (but was always credited to Emerson/O'List/Davidson/Jackson on all releases by The Nice)
Disk 20: Tarkus is credited to Copland arr. Emerson Lake and Palmer; We Three Kings is credited as co-written Hopkins/Emerson
Timings taken from dbPoweramp CD Ripper