Chrysalis

With the writing partnership of Mogg / Schenker in fine form, these recordings feel more atmospheric and darker than previous outings. <br/><br/>Obsession has been newly remastered from the original production tapes transfers at AIR Mastering. <br/>Included across two LPs is a previously unreleased 2024 Mix of Live at The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, which originally featured within the classic Strangers In The Night live album. <br/><br/>Newly mixed by revered engineer Brian Kehew from the original multi-track tapes, giving it the best sonic outing to date. <br/><br/>The four bonus tracks include a previously unreleased Alt. Version of 'Cherry' as well as two studio tracks recorded at The Record Plant for Strangers In The Nightlive album in the months following the Obsession release.

REMASTERED

ANNIVERSARY EDITION<br/>HALF SPEED

GATEFOLD SLEEVE<br/>HIGH QUALITY

180 gram vinyl.

In the summer of 1972, the band were riding high on the crest of a popularity wave, as they sold out huge arenas on the back of their critically acclaimed, chart-topping fifth album Thick As A Brick. <br/>They went into the renowned studio, where the likes of David Bowie, Elton John, Pink Floyd and Cat Stevens had previously recorded at. The band quickly nicknamed it 'Chateau D'isaster' after a series of equipment failures, bed bugs and food poisoning.<br/><br/>After a band meeting where the decision was made to return to the UK, they part-recorded a treasure trove of quirky material on master tapes which were ferried back to continue work on in London - only to decide to start over with a whole new album project, which was to become A Passion Play, released in 1973.<br/><br/>And so the Château tapes became the great lost album of Tull mythology until twenty years later when Ian Anderson reworked and completed most of the original material to release on the Nightcap album as the Chateau d'Isaster Tapes. Then in 2013, they received a make-over by Steven Wilson, for inclusion on the A Passion Play: An Extended Performance book-set. Now, for the first time, these recordings will be available on vinyl. <br/><br/>About the album, Ian Anderson says "There are some good things going on there, and I really quite like the songs which had lyrics, lots of theatrical references such as the bomb in the dressing room. I was trying to create this idea of the world of theatre somehow mirroring the real life outside on the streets and in society."

This newly remastered 2LP Gatefold Deluxe Version includes the Record Plant live set and bonus track "A Million Miles" which were previously unavailable on vinyl.