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The Seventh Taylor
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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 8:31 am Post subject: Bryan Ferry's new album Immersion Edition not very immersive |
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After incidentally having played Bryan Ferry albums all week for no particular reason other than that I've always liked them I happen to find out he's got a new album coming up, Olympia.
As far as I can tell it's a studio album with new compositions i.e. not cover versions and I must say the cover art featuring Kate Moss photographed by Mario Testino look fantastic: glamorous and very evocative of Roxy Music albums (The Atlantic Years comes to mind)
Now I hadn't expected to see an SACD version of the album, but it is coming in four versions: Now the DVD could contain a 5.1 mix but especially the title Immersion Edition to me suggests something like surround sound. Unfortunately it's not quite that immersive. According to Bryan Ferry's official site the DVD contains:
- a 30-minute documentary consisting of track-by-track interviews with Bryan Ferry, the production team and musicians involved
- the music video for You Can Dance
- a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of the album cover
The second CD contains alternative mixes of seven of the songs of the main CD.
It sounds lovely and sure, I can live with the fact that there's no multichannel mix, but whence the name 'Immersion Edition'? |
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Jens
Joined: 11 Nov 2007 Posts: 99
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps they planned (or even made) a multichannel mix but decided against it in the last minute? I don't know, honestly.
I do know that I'm very interested in this album. I just can't decide which version. The 2-disc edition comes in a nice booklet. I'm not sure if I like the 10" package of the 3-disc edition as much, though I guess it would fit in alright with the other 10" items in my record collection. The price premium is enormous however: $105 vs less than $20! That's a lot of money for an extra remix CD (and a fancy booklet, I suppose).
ETA: I do notice the price difference on Amazon.co.uk isn't quite as big: £45 vs £13. |
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PS3SACD Site Admin
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Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:48 pm Post subject: Re: Bryan Ferry's new album Immersion Edition not very immer |
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That's right. In case anyone is interested, here are links to the American, British and European (German) Amazon sites and (today's) respective prices:
BTW, it seems as if there are two vinyl editions:
- one (ASIN B003VIW8EO) with this lace artwork:
This appears to originate in the US but is sold out everywhere.
- one (ASIN B00474ADY8) with the regular artwork. This seems to be a European edition and is still available there.
No idea whether it's 33rpm or 45rpm and what type (weight) of vinyl.
Here's what the two special edition CDs look like:
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The Seventh Taylor
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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I saw the CD+DVD edition in a record shop in Europe this week and what struck me was that the DVD was NTSC. I was used to 'region 0' DVDs but still PAL copies for Europe and NTSC for North America.
Apparently the record company has now figured that most people have multi-standard DVD players and multi-standard TV sets so they can make do with a single SKU (like the music industry I think has typically been used to) rather than two or more worldwide (or even one or more per country) as is common in the movie business.
Is it a trend or an anomaly? |
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Jens
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:55 am Post subject: |
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I've seen that more lately.
Regarding the remix CD: I haven't checked if all of the mixes are covered here but SoundCloud's got an official Bryan Ferry channel where he's posted lots of remixes in recent weeks. Some great stuff here:
http://soundcloud.com/bryanferry/ |
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The Seventh Taylor
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:29 am Post subject: |
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In the meantime it's occurred to me that this 'immersive' naming was not something exclusive to Bryan Ferry: Also the Pink Floyd reissues have an Immersive edition -- as well as a Discovery and Experience edition. I'm not sure if it's naming convention specific to Virgin/EMI or whether it's become common practice among other record companies too. |
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Brandon B
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:16 am Post subject: |
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It's for music you like so much you want to get it all over you.
Eyew. Grossed myself out. |
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The Seventh Taylor
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Have you ever listened to the lyrics of Mariah Carey's Honey? Rather suggestive... Great video, by the way. |
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PS3SACD Site Admin
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:53 am Post subject: |
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The Seventh Taylor wrote: | In the meantime it's occurred to me that this 'immersive' naming was not something exclusive to Bryan Ferry: Also the Pink Floyd reissues have an Immersive edition -- as well as a Discovery and Experience edition. |
The Pink Floyd Immersion Box sets are actually worthy of such a label: at least the ones of DSotM and WYWH contain the original Quad mix and the SACD 5.1 mix in Dolby Digital on DVD and in 24/96 on Blu-ray Disc.
http://www.ps3sacd.com/index.html#_20111009 |
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