[2020-09-25] Mercury Rev "The Secret Migration (Deluxe Edition)" 5CD box set (Cherry Red UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2020 5:39 pm

Description
Formed in Buffalo, New York, in 1989, MERCURY REV quick grew to become leading figures in left field alternative rock. Earlier albums veered towards experimental, off-kilter psychedelia but by the end of the decade, the band had developed their own brand of serene, piano-based Americana with the acclaimed, best-selling LP Deserter’s Songs (1998).

Originally issued in January 2005, THE SECRET MIGRATION was the sixth album by Mercury Rev and followed All Is Dream (2001) – which has already been reissued as a deluxe edition by Cherry Red. In the UK, where the band were signed to V2, the album spawned two singles, ‘In A Funny Way’ and ‘Across Yer Ocean’.

Cherry Red Records are proud to unveil a deluxe 5-CD edition of this sometimes overlooked album, compiled by Jonathan Donaghue & Sean ‘Grasshopper’ Mackowiak.

Joining the original album are a second disc of B-sides and previously unissued outtakes, a third disc wholly devoted to hitherto unheard demos and a fourth disc of in-concert material culled from shows around the globe (again, previously unreleased). For good measure, Disc 5 revisits the band’s subsequent soundtrack album, Hello Blackbird.

Among the bonus tracks are Rev-esque versions of Bobby Charles’ Catskill Mountains inspired masterpiece ‘Tennessee Blues’, the plaintive modern spiritual ‘Afraid’ originally recorded by Nico, two Paul Westerberg penned gems ‘Androgynous’ and ‘Good Day’, Daniel Johnston’s ode to healing ‘Blue Clouds’ as well as a sublime Rev duet featuring Bonnie Anthony on their version of ‘I Never Had It So Good’ (a song the Rev chose from Kris and Rita’s 1973 LP “Full Moon”.

This expanded edition of THE SECRET MIGRATION is presented as a plush, hardbook book containing original album lyrics, lots of visuals and new sleeve-notes by acclaimed author and journalist Barney Hoskyns.

[tracklisting][CD1: The Album]
1. Secret For A Song
2. Across Yer Ocean
3. Diamonds
4. Black Forest (Lorelei)
5. Vermillion
6. In The Wilderness
7. In A Funny Way
8. My Love
9. Moving On
10. The Climbing Rose
11. Arise
12. First-Time Mother’s Joy (Flying)
13. Down Poured The Heavens

[CD2: B-Sides & Out-Takes]
B-Sides:
1. Tennessee Blues
2. Afraid
3. Seagull
4. Androgynous
5. Mirror For A Bell
6. Good Times Ahead
7. Blue Clouds
8. I Never Had It So Good
9. Black Forest (Lorelei) (Adam Peters Remix)
Out-Takes:
10. Late Night Request *
11. Season Of Poussin *
12. Good Day *
13. Look At Brutis With His Knife *
14. The Alchemy Of Lovers *

[CD3: Demos]
1. Diamonds *
2. Black Forest (Lorelei) ‘Fender Jaguar Version’ *
3. First Time Mother’s Joy (Flying) *
4. In A Funny Way *
5. Seagull *
6. Vermillion *
7. Siphoned From The Sea *
8. My Love *
9. Secret For A Song *
10. In The Wilderness (Snippet)
11. Black Forest (Lorelei) ‘Vega Barking’ *
12. It’s All That You Need *
13. In The Wilderness *
14. Down Poured The Heavens *

[CD4: Live]
1. Secret For A Song – Sydney Opera House 7/13/05 *
2. Black Forest (Lorelei) – Toronto 5/16/05 *
3. Mirror For A Bell – Stockholm 3/17/05 *
4. My Love – The Ritz (NYC) 5/19/05 *
5. Vermillion – Florence 11/30/04 *
6. In A Funny Way – Hammersmith Apollo 3/12/05 *
7. First-Time Mother’s Joy (Flying) – Lausanne 11/27/04 *
8. In The Wilderness – Perth 7/20/05 *
9. Down Poured The Heavens – Skopje 6/10/05 *
10. Holes – Leipzig 11/22/04 *
11. Arise – Luxembourg 6/05/05 *
12. Diamonds – St. Brieue 6/03/05 *
13. The Dark Is Rising – Coachella – 4/30/05 *

[CD5: Hello Blackbird (O/S/T)]
1. Blackbird’s Call
2. Illumination By Street Lamp
3. Waltz For Alice
4. Trial By Wire
5. Daydream For Nina
6. Audition Scene Sketch (Simply Because)
7. The White Birds
8. Josef’s Vision *
9. Eye Of The Blackbird (Traveling Music II)
10. The Last Of The White Birds (Marche Funebré)
11. Cinema Theme
12. First Flight Of The White Birds
13. The Chimpy Waltz
14. Dempsey’s Theme
15. Fantasia No. 1
16. Robert Y Roberto
17. Traveling Music
18. Departed Angels
19. Simply Because

* Previously Unissued[/tracklisting]

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DBHCZMN/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08DBHCZMN/?tag=imwan-21

GodsComic · 03 Aug 2006

Interesting choice in their catalog to do a deluxe edition. But I love all the albums they have done beginning with Deserter's Songs, so I'm in.

GodsComic · 03 Aug 2006

Did anyone else here get this? I just got my replacement set for defective live disc (disc 4), and replacement also has defective disc 4

GodsComic · 03 Aug 2006

After getting two defective CDs, I wrote to Cherry Red and they actually replied and replaced my defective disc. I know some of us have had issue with them when it comes to source of recordings, But in this level of customer service, I rate them an A+

[2020-09-25] Mercury Rev "The Secret Migration (Deluxe Edition)" 5CD box set (Cherry Red UK)

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