International Harvester - Sov-Gott Rose Marie: Classic or Dud? (And damn your black heart if you think it's a dud!)

holding out for the CD version to avoid the inevitable track-splitting across sides of the vinyl

^^yeah man, never let go of the drone!

Saw Träd, Gräs och Stenar last night and despite them being deeply exhausted it was a great set. Wished venue had a mess of bean bags and everyone could flop on the floor though.

So Amazon has listed new CD versions of Remains 1, Remains 2, Remains 3 and Sov-Gott Marie from Arcangelo, which appears to be a legit Japanese reissue label, for many months and the release date kept getting pushed back. According to Amazon they were finally released February 9th, but they all popped up that day as immediately wither "currently unavailable" or only available through second-hand sellers for $50-$60 a pop (double the already high list price of $31.99 each). The only other place I can even find these listed is pre-orders through Bullmoose, but that release date keeps getting pushed back as well and now sits at February 16th.

Anyway, has anyone heard anything about these at all or where to find them? Really would love to pick up CDs of this stuff for a decent price, but I'm not sure these even actually exist.

There's a review of an oral history book on the current Wire that I need to look further into. I don't think they mention a language it's in. Would think it should be Swedish but a lot of people there are Anglophone anyway.
I don't remember reading a translation of an oral history. Would wonder how successful any translation could be. Being way more than one voice etc.

An English translation is available -- a few of us picked it up pre-Christmas, we talked about it on the Trad Gras thread.

Yeah, I wrote about the book at the end of November. It's really cool.