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Tom Waits Remasters

Tom Waits is set to release this year, newly remastered versions of each of his acclaimed albums in the Anti- catalogue.  In addition, the album Real Gone has been fully remixed and individual releases of each of the three discs of Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards will be available early 2018.

Remastering significantly improves the quality of sound files and restores the integrity and intent of the original recording. Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan personally oversaw this process for both the vinyl and digital formats of the catalogue.

”This restoration project could arrogantly be compared to restoring a faded tapestry, a painstaking process that requires meticulous attention to each", Tom Waits explains, "colour faded thread.  Spending months on something completed once, many years ago was necessary though cursedly laborious for us.” The albums roll out beginning November 2017 and continue through December. All albums will be available on 180-gram vinyl.

The first to be released is the Grammy-nominated album Bad As Me (2011). These songs were designed to be lean and mean, with strong hooks and tight running times. From the opening horn-fuelled chug of 'Chicago', to the closing barroom chorale of 'New Year’s Eve', 'Bad As Me' displays the full career range of Waits’ songwriting, from beautiful ballads like 'Last Leaf' to the avant cinematic soundscape of 'Hell Broke Luce' a battlefront dispatch. Waits worked with longtime co-writer and producer Kathleen Brennan, in addition to Waits’ veterans; Keith Richards, Marc Ribot, David Hidalgo, Larry Taylor and Casey Waits. 'Bad As Me' arrives in stores on 16th November.

10th November  – 'Bad As Me'

24th November  – 'Real Gone'

24th November  – 'Blood Money'

24th November  – 'Alice'

1st December   – 'Glitter and Doom Live'

15th December  – 'Mule Variations'

2018 – 'Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards' (released separately)

 

 

 

 

 

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