Out This Week / 11 Feb 2013

Led Zeppelin / Celebration Day 3xLP

Almost three months after the original release, the Led Zeppelin live album is issued as three heavyweight LPs.

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Richard Thompson / Electric (Deluxe Edition)

Songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson recorded this new record in Nashville with Buddy Miller producing. This deluxe edition is a 2CD set with seven bonus tracks.

• • UK Order: Electric (Deluxe Edition)
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Yes / Original Album Series (5CD Set)

Five CD set from Yes, containing Going For The One (1977), Tormato (1978), Drama (1980), 90125 (1983) and Big Generator (1987).

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Elvis Presley  / Music & Photos

Two CD hits collection from The King, in large format packaging and ten 11 x 12.5 inch photos.

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Bob Dylan Music & Photos

Two CD hits collection (actually The Essential Bob Dylan) in large format packaging with ten quality 11 x 12.5 inch photos.

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Bob Dylan / Blood On The Tracks (Hybrid SACD)

More Dylan, this time a numbered limited edition Hybrid SACD (Super Audio CD) from audiophile specialists Mobile Fidelity. This has been mastered from the original tapes and is presented in hi-res Stereo.

• • UK Order: Blood on the Tracks SACD
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Conny Plank / Who’s That Man – A Tribute To Conny Plank

A 4CD box set highlighting the early work of legendary German Krautrock producer Conny Plank (Kraftwerk, NEU!, Harmonia, D.A.F.).

This nicely designed packaged comes with an extensive booklet and comprises two CDs of original tracks that had a Conny involvement (e.g. Le Sinistre – a track from the sessions of the Eurythmics first album In The Garden, which Plank co-produced), a further CD of remixes and rounds off with a disc featuring a previously unreleased live show featuring Plank, Dieter Möbius and Arno Steffen in Mexico 1986.

• • UK Order: Who’s That Man – A Tribute To Conny Plank
• • USA Pre-order: Who’s That Man: Tribute to Conny Plank
• • CANADA Pre-order: Who’s The Man: Tribute To Conny Plank
• • GERMANY Order: Who’s That Man/a Tribute to Conny Plank

R.E.M. / Original Album Series (5CD set)

The critically acclaimed Warner albums from the early to mid-nineties are notable by their absence, but this value set could be a good catching up exercise for those who stopped buying R.E.M. records around the time of 1996’s New Adventures in Hi-Fi. This set contains Up, Reveal, Around The Sun, Accelerate and Collapse Into Now. Bonus points for quite a groovy cover design.

• • UK Order: R.E.M. Original Album Series
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Bob Dylan / Bringing It All Back Home (Hybrid SACD)

Like Blood On The Tracks, Dylan’s 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home is released this week by Mobile Fidelity as a hi-res Stereo Hybrid SACD.

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Jeff Buckley / Music and Photos

Another edition of Sony’s new ‘Music & Photos’ series. For this Jeff Buckley release, a CD of hits and a live DVD accompany the 10 glossy photos.

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The Allman Brothers Band Hybrid SACD

As well as the Dylan releases, audiophile specialist Mobile Fidelity this week issue The Allman Brothers Band 1969 debut. This is a stereo hybrid SACD.

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