Joni - Expanded Remasters

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"27/04/2006 - Joni Mitchell - Three Expanded Remasters
New prices - now £11.99 each. 3 Classic albums from Joni Mitchell are being remastered and expanded for a projected July 10th release: 'Court And Spark' (1974), 'The Hissing Of Summer Lawns' (from 1975) and 'Hejira' (1976) will be expanded into 2 CD sets and will cost £11.99 each. This is very early information so release dates may slip.

http://www.spincds.com/archives.asp?id=4148"

anybody know anything about these?

the date has obviously been and gone...

are these for real? what can possibly be on the bonus discs of these editions?

KD

Kirk Degiorgio (Kirk), Thursday, 24 August 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I would assume they'd be coming out through Rhino but there's nothing on their site yet. I had a quick look at JM's forum and there's scant mentions of these as well..

electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 24 August 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

damn.. these sounds great... I got the Hissing demos and they're almost as good as the finished album... I wonder if these were gonna be featured on the expanded edition..

Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 25 August 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link

hope so... what the hell is gonna be on the other 2 discs i have no idea...

i hope this is for real

Kirk Degiorgio (Kirk), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: Joni Mitchell - 'Hissing of Summer Lawns' vs 'Hejira'

Lazy Comet (plsmith), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

according to the german amazon they will be available as uk imports as of january, 8th, 2007. when i checked the uk amazon, the price tag was £14.99.

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry, the link doesn't work.

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

so they ARE real... holy shit... thx Alex!

KD

Kirk Degiorgio (Kirk), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

These are three albums (along with Mingus and maybe a couple of others) which were supposed to reissued in HDCD remastered form around '99 and, in the UK at least, never were. There were even "Remastered HDCD" stickers on some of the CDs in the racks but they were the late '80s originals. Some did make it out on HDCD ("Don Juan", "Ladies of the Canyon").

Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 25 August 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

my Court & Spark and Hissing are both HDCD - stamped on the disc and clearly superior to the previous CD issues I had... both US manufactured.

cannot find Hejira HDCD though...

so have they held back the HDCD editions in the UK to make way for these expanded editions? any ideas what the bonus material will be for C&S and Hejira?

Kirk Degiorgio (Kirk), Friday, 25 August 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

tell me about these 'hissing' demos! i had no idea that such things existed.

derrick (derrick), Saturday, 26 August 2006 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, right - those albums did come out as HDCD remasters in the US, but it must be five or six years ago now. I have no idea why they weren't made available in Europe (though the stickers erroneously appeared on some stock). Summer Lawns is supposed to be a particularly good remastering job. No hissing, y'see.

If the 2CD sets are full price, I may take my chances with Amazon.com and get the HDCD versions from the States (though, with shipping, Court plus Summer Lawns is $31...)

Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
these are up on Amazon UK now - release date Jan 8th 07.... yippeee!

Kirk Degiorgio (Kirk), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link

reminder to self: sell old cds of joni albums soon.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Any idea what might be on the 2nd discs?

Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...
YES!!!

Greetings from Amazon.co.uk,

As someone who has expressed interest in music by Joni Mitchell, you might like to know that Court and Spark: Remastered & Expanded is now available.

is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

actually - false alarm

Now Amazon says

We are currently unable to offer this title. The label may be out of stock. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.

is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, I got that pointless email too

fandango (fandango), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

These remasters never came out did they? Could it be they were lost in the great Universal fire?

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 11 July 2019 08:28 (four years ago) link

Well, I can live without outtakes from such brilliant albums, but I think a few sonic upgrades may be possible and it would suck if the masters don’t exist.

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 11 July 2019 10:26 (four years ago) link

yeah, phooey on the outtakes

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 July 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link

These albums are with Warner Music, so they wouldn't have been in the fire. Mitchell's Geffen catalogue tapes were probably lost though.

frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 July 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link

some were def remastered for HDCD, like this:

https://www.discogs.com/Joni-Mitchell-The-Hissing-Of-Summer-Lawns/release/10372197

sleeve, Thursday, 11 July 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link

Off topic, but Asylum Records has always meant Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne in my mind. I had no idea they were rebranded in 2004 and that the label looks like this.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Asylum_Records_logo_2017.jpg

God, I'm old...

confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 11 July 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link


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