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Marc Almond: Enchanted (Expanded Edition) (2CD+1DVD)
Marc Almond: Enchanted (Limited Edition, Expanded Double Vinyl) (2LP)

Enchanted

Marc Almond

£20.99
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Format: 3CD

Cat No: QSFE086T

Release Date:  25 June 2021

Label:  Sfe / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Fat Double (a 2.5cm thick jewel case, fits several CDs)

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929849624

Genres:  Pop  

Release Date:  25 June 2021

Label:  Sfe / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  5013929849617

Genres:  Pop  

  • Description


    • Originally released in August 1990, this is the first ever expanded re-issue of Marc Almond’s opulent sixth studio album. “Enchanted” is saturated in Marc’s signature poetic romanticism and contains some of his finest lyric writing in songs as various as the epic ‘Madame De La Luna’, ‘Death’s Diary’ and ‘Orpheus In Red Velvet’. The album’s lush lead single, ‘A Lover Spurned’, is a classic Almond power ballad of unrequited love with an equally thrilling production by Stephen Hague, employing a melodramatically thunderous 48-piece orchestra.



    • The album, additional to its pronounced electronic pop production, is very much a journey through the world music influences that Marc was listening to at the time; he explains, “There are Indian bhangra influences on the track ‘Death’s Diary’, Middle Eastern influences on ‘Orpheus In Red Velvet’, Brazilian lambada on ‘Carnival of Life’, Celtic flavourings on ‘The Sea Still Sings’ and Latin drama on ‘A Lover Spurned’.”



    • The original album is replicated on the first disc of this deluxe 3-disc set alongside all six B-Sides that originally featured across the various formats of the album’s three singles. The second CD presents a selection of the original album demos evidencing a more acoustic intimacy that frames Almond’s superior song-writing craft in a counterpoint tradition of the deft and immediate story-telling thrust of the very best of European chanson. This disc also showcases the various commercially released spin-off extended versions and dance remixes of the album’s singles; ‘A Lover Spurned’, ‘The Desperate Hours’ and ‘Waifs and Strays’, the last of which was remixed by Soft Cell partner Dave Ball in his guise as one half of electronic dance act The Grid. The three more instrumental leaning remixes, very much products of their time, have been placed at the end of the second disc as an interesting coda to this most definitive of expanded editions.



    • We are delighted to re-instate “Enchanted” to Marc Almond’s lustrous back catalogue. It really is serious pop at its best, taking the listener chronologically on a journey from the alluring enticements of ‘Madame De La Luna’ with gold in her veins, to the underworld torments of ‘Orpheus In Red Velvet,’ with all the rich enjoyment of the celebratory myriad of virtues and vices that are sung about in between.



    • The cover of this special capacity wallet 3-disc edition features its original sumptuous Pierre et Gilles artwork and the all new full-colour 28 page booklet boasts two further Pierre et Gilles images. These were supplied by the artists them

    Description

    LIMITED EDITION MIDNIGHT BLUE COLOURED VINYL 2LP:


     



    • Originally released in August 1990, Marc Almond’s opulent sixth studio album, “Enchanted”, is saturated in his signature poetic romanticism and contains some of his finest lyric writing in songs as various as the epic ‘Madame De La Luna’, ‘Death’s Diary’ and ‘Orpheus In Red Velvet.’ The album’s lush lead single, ‘A Lover Spurned’, is a classic Almond power ballad of unrequited love with an equally thrilling production by Stephen Hague, employing a melodramatically thunderous 48-piece orchestra.



    • The album, additional to its pronounced electronic pop production, is very much a journey through the world music influences that Marc was listening to at the time; he explains, “There are Indian bhangra influences on the track ‘Death’s Diary’, Middle Eastern influences on ‘Orpheus In Red Velvet’, Brazilian lambada on ‘Carnival of Life’, Celtic flavourings on ‘The Sea Still Sings’ and Latin drama on ‘A Lover Spurned’.”



    • The original album is replicated on the first record of this deluxe 2xLP set and the second record evidences, in both the B-Sides and the selection of original album demos that it contains, a more acoustic intimacy that frames Almond’s superior song-writing craft in a counterpoint tradition of the deft and immediate story-telling thrust of the very best of European chanson.



    • We are delighted to re-instate “Enchanted” to Marc Almond’s lustrous back catalogue. It really is serious pop at its best, taking the listener chronologically on a journey from the alluring enticements of ‘Madame De La Luna’ with gold in her veins, to the underworld torments of ‘Orpheus In Red Velvet,’ with all the rich enjoyment of the celebratory myriad of virtues and vices that are sung about in between.



    • The album cover features its original sumptuous Pierre et Gilles artwork and the all new full-colour inner sleeves boast two further Pierre et Gilles images, supplied for the release with love from the artists themselves and whose special message of memoir is carried on the inner sleeves alongside a written appraisal of the album by official Marc Almond biographer, Jeremy Reed and all the song lyrics.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Madame De La Luna
      • 2. Waifs And Strays
      • 3. The Desperate Hours
      • 4. Toreador In The Rain
      • 5. Widow Weeds
      • 6. A Lover Spurned
      • 7. Death’s Diary
      • 8. The Sea Still Sings
      • 9. Carnival Of Life
      • 10. Orpheus In Red Velvet
      • 11. Exotica Rose
      • 12. The Gambler
      • 13. Old Jack’s Charm
      • 14. The Libertine’s Dream
      • 15. City Of Nights
      • 16. The Desperate Hours (Orchestral Version)

      Disc 2

      • 1. A Lover Spurned (12” Version)
      • 2. The Desperate Hours(Extended Flamenco Mix)
      • 3. Waifs And Strays (Grid Mix)
      • 4. A Lover Spurned (Radio Version)
      • 5. The Desperate Hours (12” Vocal Remix)
      • 6. Waifs And Strays (12” Grid Mix)
      • 7. The Sea Still Sings (Demo)
      • 8. Madame De La Luna (Demo)
      • 9. Death’s Diary (Demo)
      • 10. Toreador In The Rain (Demo)
      • 11. Orpheus In Red Velvet (Demo)
      • 12. The Desperate Hours (Alternate Mix)
      • 13. Waifs And Strays(Grid Twilight Mix)
      • 14. The Desperate Hours(12” Dub Mix)

      Disc 3

      • 1. A Lover Spurned (Dir. Pierre Et Gilles)
      • 2. The Desperate Hours (Dir. John Maybury)
      • 3. Waifs And Strays (Dir. John Maybury)

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Madame De La Luna
      • 2. Waifs And Strays
      • 3. The Desperate Hours
      • 4. Toreador In The Rain
      • 5. Widow Weeds

      Side 2

      • 1. A Lover Spurned
      • 2. Death’s Diary
      • 3. The Sea Still Sings
      • 4. Carnival Of Life
      • 5. Orpheus In Red Velvet

      Disc 2

      Side 1

      • 1. Exotica Rose
      • 2. The Gambler
      • 3. Old Jack’s Charms
      • 4. The Libertine’s Dreams
      • 5. City Of Nights

      Side 2

      • 1. The Sea Still Sings (Demo)
      • 2. Madame De La Luna (Demo)
      • 3. Death’s Diary (Demo)
      • 4. Toreador In The Rain (Demo)
      • 5. Orpheus In Red Velvet (Demo)
      • 6. The Desperate Hours (Orchestral)

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