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An Appointment With Mr Yeats (2022 Remaster)

The Waterboys

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Format: 2LP

Cat No: COOKLP748X

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Release Date:  02 December 2022

Label:  Cooking Vinyl Limited / Cooking Vinyl

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  711297524833

Genres:  Rock  

Release Date:  17 June 2022

Label:  Cooking Vinyl Limited / Cooking Vinyl

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  711297524826

Genres:  Rock  

  • Description

    An Appointment with Mr Yeats sees the words of W B Yeats, Ireland's greatest poet, merged with the music of The Waterboys, one of Britain and Ireland's greatest bands, in a truly unique and ambitious musical undertaking. The album was first released in 2011, and has been remixed and remastered for re-issue, now containing 6 previously unreleased bonus tracks.

    Waterboys vocalist Mike Scott first set Yeats to music in 1988 when he wrote a musical accompaniment for the classic poem The Stolen Child, included on their seminal album 'Fisherman's Blues'. Scott's love of literature flows throughout the work of The Waterboys. Scott explained: "I grew up in a house full of books so literature and language have always been important to me. Working with other peoples' words is something that comes as natural to me as working with my own. In a way it's even more immediate; I've always found writing music an easier process than the writing of lyrics, and setting words of the quality of Yeats' to music is an enormous privilege and treat."

    An Appointment with Mr. Yeats is a unique opportunity for lovers of great music and great literature to celebrate the union of song and word in one spectacular record.

    Description

    An Appointment with Mr Yeats sees the words of W B Yeats, Ireland's greatest poet, merged with the music of The Waterboys, one of Britain and Ireland's greatest bands, in a truly unique and ambitious musical undertaking. The album was first released in 2011, and has been remixed and remastered for re-issue, now containing 6 previously unreleased bonus tracks.

    Waterboys vocalist Mike Scott first set Yeats to music in 1988 when he wrote a musical accompaniment for the classic poem The Stolen Child, included on their seminal album 'Fisherman's Blues'. Scott's love of literature flows throughout the work of The Waterboys. Scott explained: "I grew up in a house full of books so literature and language have always been important to me. Working with other peoples' words is something that comes as natural to me as working with my own. In a way it's even more immediate; I've always found writing music an easier process than the writing of lyrics, and setting words of the quality of Yeats' to music is an enormous privilege and treat."

    An Appointment with Mr. Yeats is a unique opportunity for lovers of great music and great literature to celebrate the union of song and word in one spectacular record.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. The Hosting Of The Shee (2022 Remaster)
      • 2. Song Of Wandering Aengus (2022 Remaster)
      • 3. News For The Delphic Oracle (2022 Remaster)
      • 4. A Full Moon In March (2022 Remaster)
      • 5. Sweet Dancer (2022 Remaster)
      • 6. White Birds (2022 Remaster)
      • 7. The Lake Isle Of Innisfree (2022 Remaster)
      • 8. Mad As The Mist And Snow (2022 Remaster)
      • 9. Before The World Was Made (2022 Remaster)
      • 10. September 1913 (2022 Remaster)
      • 11. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (2022 Remaster)
      • 12. Politics (2022 Remaster)
      • 13. Let The Earth Bear Witness (2022 Remaster)
      • 14. The Faery's Last Song (2022 Remaster)
      • 15. A Faery Song (We Who Are Old) (Demo)
      • 16. The Four Ages Of Man (Demo)
      • 17. Our Father Rosy-Cross (Demo)
      • 18. Do Not Love Too Long (Demo)
      • 19. The Travelling Man And The Tree (Demo)
      • 20. News For The Delphic Oracle (Demo)