Jethro Tull - 'Benefit' and 'Passion Play' Remasters - any news?

Does anyone have any info regarding likely release dates for these two, which I believe Steve Wilson was working on?

Also any thoughts on bonus material?

Phil

 

http://jethrotull.proboards.com/post/38634/thread
The Benefit remix is now due for release in October 2013 (probably a digipack with extensive sleeve notes etc), and the Chateau/APP package will be released in 2014.

The delay has been due to recent record company changes.

The latter package will include an extra 10 minutes of Chateau stuff, all without the 1990s added flute, while the APP remix will have Steven Wilson either following or ignoring IA's suggestion to leave some instruments out to make it sound less dense and complex.

More info, including IA's reappraisal of APP, will be in a major Record Collector feature later this summer.

-thanks to Graham (maddog) The Jethro Tull Forum

http://jethrotull.proboards.com/thread/2344/all-remixed-benefit-app
Coming soon is a deluxe edition of Benefit (Ian Anderson had always disliked the mix of this album, so he worked together with Steven Wilson to capture the sound he always wished it had) which will contain several bonus tracks on a separate disc.

The other deluxe edition is A Passion Play which will also contain newly remixed versions of the Chateau D'isaster Tapes (for those unfamiliar these tapes were an aborted concept album that was shelved and then A Passion Play was recorded instead).

 

Im looking forward to the newer cleaner sound of Benefit...and A Passion Play....

 

Cool news, thanks for the updates

 

I'd love to see the extra material

 

Awesome news!

 

anyone know if they are doing 5.1 mixes on these?
thanks!

 

But of course - Steven Wilson is "in the house"!!

 

I hope Benefit has the U.S. mix of Teacher as a bonus track. I never liked the muddy sounding U.K. mix.

 

The UK remix appeared @ record store day EP
So it will definitely be included on the upcoming 'Benefit' box

It would be nice to have both US (with flute and less guitar) and UK (fluteless and with more guitar) versions

 

Good to know. Thanks.

 

I'll be buying this set for the Chateau portion and this is very good news to my ears; sounds like this is the best chance we'll get to having a complete album with all the music and hopefully in a better track sequence. I don't particularly care about the APP remix, though I hope SW ignores Ian's suggestion. Would be nice if these included flat transfers of the original masters too....

 

Although I'm not usually a fan of remixes (thanks, Genesis SACDs), "Benefit" is one album that is just screaming for one. I quite enjoy the Aqualung and TAAB remixes and can't wait to hear this! I have never heard any LP pressing/CD/whatever of Benefit that doesn't sound like absolute crap. And damnit, leave APP alone, Ian!

 

Have bought all the Steve Wilson Tull and King Crimson remasters (up to Red, when King Crimson ceased to exist ) I can honestly say I am beside myself in anticipation in looking forward to A Passion Play.

For me Benefit was always the weakest of the first four albums but it's still a fine album. The remix is much needed.


Here's a great cover of Inside that I suspect many here won't be familiar with. It's by Norwegian Trond Granlund.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Inside/1YQJWp?src=5

 

Can't wait for the new (old) Chateau mixes.
As for A Passion play: I love this album to death, and since there are enough great sounding editions out from this album I hope it goes the Anderson route. A remix that sounds the same as the old mix is useless on an album that sounds already good. I would have wished for a radically different mix on Brick, too.
Aqualung was another story here was an "original" mix in better quality needed...

 

Wait - are you talking about that single/EP or about the Benefit album? I love Benefit but didn't know there were 2 different versions of it (??). If so I need to track down whatever I don't have!!!

 

I was just about to do a needle-drop of Benefit -- I shall now await the SW version instead!!!! Yay!

As for Passion Play, it’s been a long time -- I was never in love with it, as it seemed a bit overcooked and busy. I’ll give it another chance, of course, and the newish mix should hopefully help.

 

For the record store day, the UK single remix of 'Teacher' was released

Here's Steven Wilson remix (sadly, uploaded in mono. UK version)



There's been quite a lot of confusion about the UK and US versions. I think part of that is because on the 2001 remastered edition of 'Benefit' the US VERSION was included, but on the tracklist it was listed as UK version. But it's easy to tell each one

UK Version: More guitar playing. No flute
US version: Less guitar playing. Flute

We don't know the tracklist yet, but I'd love to have both versions

 

The two "Teacher"s are two different versions of the song, not just alternate mixes. For the drummers out there, the UK version has Clive playing ride cymbal in the verses while in the US version he plays hi hat.

 

Thanks for clearing up the mistake on the 2001 CD. I always assumed it was the U.K. version (which I've never actually heard until today BTW) because it sounded muddy and a lot less clear than the version from the original U.S. Chrysalis L.P.

 

New remix/remaster of A Passion Play/ Chateau D’Isaster Tapes in early 2014, as well as a new 'concept' album!

http://jethrotull.com/july-news-update-by-ian-anderson/

 

Benefit in October!

 

now if we could get a deluxe Stand Up

 

I wss wondering the same thing. what is Stand Up? Chopped liver? i was 14-17 and a singer and flautist in a high school rock and roll band. you might be able to imagine what Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung and Thick as a Brick meant to me. Then again perhaps perhaps it s unimaginable. Hopefully they will be high rez stereo.
(i also sang Paranoid and played flute on Dylan's Lay Lady Lay. Some early Chicago as well. Color my World was the big one.

 

I drool at the thought of both!