A Storm In Heaven (Deluxe Reissue)

 
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The Verve
A Storm In Heaven (Deluxe Reissue)

[ Universal Music / 3 CD/DVD ]

Release Date: Friday 16 September 2016

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Released in the UK on 21 June 1993, A Storm In Heaven was a modest UK hit (No. 27 in the album chart) but over the last two decades has come to be regarded as something of a psychedelic classic. Drenched in echo and reverb it is highly atmospheric, extremely nuanced and for many long term fans of the band, it remains the band's 'lost' masterpiece.

When they first emerged , Verve (before they were obliged to add a "The" by the American jazz label of the same name), like many bands of the time, were lumped into the shoegaze scene pretty much by dint of the fact that their moniker was singular as was the fashion (Ride, Lush, Moose etc), and guitarist Nick McCabe's desire to make his guitar sound like anything but what it was via an array of effects pedals. But Verve were from Wigan, not the Thames Valley, and at the outset Ashcroft didn't even wear shoes - not since Zola Budd has one person's avoidance of footwear caused such consternation in the media - and "Mad Richard" (as Melody Maker unforgettably christened him) and his cohorts were very much gazing at the stars.

After three indie chart-topping singles, including two clocking in at over eight minutes, the band had expectations to live up to but very little material prepared as they entered Sawmills Studio in Cornwall with producer John Leckie in late 1992. As Nick Southall revealed in his excellent piece on the album for Stylus in 2003, "Verve went into the studio with half a dozen riffs, half a dozen half-baked lyrics and a thousand ideas of ways to reach the sky. John Leckie managed to seize the controls and apply the necessary degree of restraint and maturity, guiding the band back down to earth when they threatened to fly too close to the sun."

For this super deluxe reissue, the audio has been remastered by Chris Potter (co-producer of their Urban Hymns album) and is augmented by the inclusion of all the pre-album EP tracks, b-sides and associated acoustic versions, as well as two previously unreleased BBC radio sessions and two excellent unreleased studio tracks. The accompanying DVD presents a 1992 Camden Town Hall concert, the USA promo video for 'Blue' plus unseen footage of the band in New York in October 1992 and a video for the unreleased track 'South Pacific' made from footage of the Sawmills sessions captured by John Leckie.

The package, which comes in a lift-off lid box, also features four post cards, a poster and a 42-page book featuring interviews with the band (Richard aside) and never-before-seen photos by bass player Simon Jones and Michael Spencer Jones, who took all the photos for their sleeves at that time.

Tracks:

Disc 1
1. Star Sail (2016 Remastered)
2. Slide Away (2016 Remastered)
3. Already There (2016 Remastered)
4. Beautiful Mind (2016 Remastered)
5. The Sun The Sea (2016 Remastered)
6. Virtual World (2016 Remastered)
7. Make It Till Monday (2016 Remastered)
8. Blue (2016 Remastered)
9. Butterfly (2016 Remastered)
10. See You In The Next One (Have A Good Time) (2016 Remastered)

Disc 2
1. All In The Mind (2016 Remastered)
2. One Way To Go (2016 Remastered)
3. A Man Called Sun (2016 Remastered)
4. She's A Superstar (2016 Remastered)
5. Feel (2016 Remastered)
6. Gravity Grave (Extended Version / 2016 Remastered)
7. Endless Life (2016 Remastered)
8. A Man Called Sun (Live From The Clapham Grand,United Kingdom / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
9. Gravity Grave (Live From The Clapham Grand,United Kingdom / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
10. Twilight (2016 Remastered)
11. Where The Geese Go (2016 Remastered)
12. No Come Down (2016 Remastered)
13. Blue (USA Mix / 2016 Remastered)
14. 6 O'Clock (2016 Remastered)

Disc 3
1. Make It 'Til Monday (Acoustic / 2016 Remastered)
2. Virtual World (Acoustic / 2016 Remastered)
3. Gravity Grave (Live Glastonbury / 1993 / 2016 Remastered)
4. Butterfly (Acoustic / 2016 Remastered)
5. Slide Away (Radio 1 Session / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
6. She's A Superstar (Radio 1 Session / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
7. Already There (Radio 1 Session / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
8. Brake Lights (Radio 1 Session / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
9. Star Sail (Radio 1 Mark Radcliffe Session / 1993 / 2016 Remastered)
10. A Man Called Sun (Radio 1 Mark Radcliffe Session / 1993 / 2016 Remastered)
11. 6 O'Clock (Radio 1 Mark Radcliffe Session / 1993 / 2016 Remastered)
12. Gravity Grave (Radio 1 Mark Radcliffe Session / 1993 / Extended Version / 2016 Remastered)
13. Shoeshine Girl (Sawmills Session / 2016 Remastered)
14. South Pacific (Sawmills Session / 2016 Remastered)

Disc 4
1. Slide Away (Live At Camden Town Hall / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
2. All In The Mind (Live At Camden Town Hall / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
3. She's A Superstar (Live At Camden Town Hall / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
4. A Man Called Sun (Live At Camden Town Hall / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
5. South Pacific (Live At Camden Town Hall / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
6. Already There (Live At Camden Town Hall / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
7. The Sun The Sea (Live At Camden Town Hall / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
8. Gravity Grave (Live At Camden Town Hall / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
9. A Man Called Sun (Live In New York City / 1992 / 2016 Remastered)
10. South Pacific (Sawmills Studio Footage / 2016 Remastered)
11. Blue (USA Mix / Promo Video / 2016 Remastered)