Record Store Day 2023 - Tales of Ephidrina and Life in Moments expanded reissues

[Ross]

Ephidrina is out there, not sure if Bandcamp will have it but if it does I'd imagine they'll have to grab any remaining copies from the label so it might not be yet. Given RSD's general focus on vinyl, I'd imagine there'll be plenty of CDs to purchase for a reasonable price, though.

And yes, it's on Bandcamp now. CD and digital are available, the remaining vinyl copies (looks like they had 90 copies) sold out pretty fast.

[tengram]

Indeed. I'm in the US--email came through here in the middle of the night. Woke up this morning, and the LPs were already all gone.

[adreamingandroid]

Got both reissues on CD on order. Whilst I do have the first issue of Life in Moments, I couldn't turn down the chance of more material thanks to the expanded issue. Also because I no longer collect vinyl I do not run the risk of seeing the sold out label on items.

Saw one of the reissues on Ebay yesterday with an asking price of £300, just insane

[tengram]

Saw one of the reissues on Ebay yesterday with an asking price of £300, just insane

But is anyone actually paying that much for it? Sellers can ask all they want...

[adreamingandroid]

But is anyone actually paying that much for it? Sellers can ask all they want...

I wouldn't be tempted for various reasons. There were others on there but not for anywhere near that amount, if I recall there was a copy with an asking price of £60.
I grabbed a .wav version whilst I await for the CD to arrive, artwork is a bit lacking in my opinion, just one image, I was hoping for more.
Really looking forward to hearing the remaster of Ephidrina though.

[nanio tine]

mixed feelings on this - fresseline sounds like amorphous and doesn't really fit even on that album, the others are nice tho. the alt swab is annoying, mountain path is now released as both fsol and aa which is confusing. here's hoping virgin decide they want to do expanded versions of other albums though, I imagine there's some nice alt mixes of 94-96 tracks.

[soop]

Still looking to nab the new Ephidrina CD… Any advice on where to look?

[Neil]

Still looking to nab the new Ephidrina CD… Any advice on where to look?

Try Action Records in Preston, or Assai Records. They both do online orders and delivery. Looks like they might have a copy left each on CD and some vinyl.

https://www.actionrecords.co.uk/buy/tal ... 669485.htm

https://assai.co.uk/products/amorphous- ... 3fbf&_ss=r

[Ross]

Copies on the FSOL Bandcamp this week.

[Blu Mar Ten]

Tales of Ephidrina is still an extraordinary LP. It really hasn't aged at all.

[tengram]

If anyone is still looking for a copy of Tales in LP at retail price, Soul Brother has a copy:

https://soulbrother.com/shop/tales-of-ephidrina/

[sigESANg5]

Now available in the FSOLdigital bandcamp, and t-shirts! glad they have size small available.

https://fsol.bandcamp.com

[mcbpete]

Ross - Do you know if the Ephidrina remastering by Matt Colton was done by just re-tweaking the '93 CD version or did the boys supply them with higher quality original sources (presumably Baz's big box of DATs )? I notice there's also a 24 bit version (way beyond my terrible ears) on 7digital so am curious if 7digital have just done a naughty upscaling of the 16bit CD or they actually did have that high a bit-rate source from Universal/Virgin ....

[Ross]

I can double check but I would imagine it was remastered from source. Given that Brian sought out the bonus tracks it’s likely they were sent over with the original album.

[tengram]

I don't have the digital files for the RSD 2023 remaster, and I don't have the original Quigley vinyl, so this comparison is not fully apples to apples, but...

comparing my original 1993 Astralwerks/Caroline (US Pressing) copy of the CD with the vinyl of the 2023 remix, it sounds like a fresh remaster to my ears, rather than just a re-tweak