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I received an email from Light in the Attic, celebrating that "Words and Music" had been nominated for a Grammy (!).
Buried in the email was the following:

Lastly, stay tuned! Very, very, very soon we’ll be announcing the next release in the [Lou Reed archive] series.

I don't want to get our hopes up. I listened to a podcast quite a while back where they hinted that the next release was going to be a reissue of Hudson River Wind Meditations. Let's hope it's something a little more interesting than that.

hkmartin wrote: ↑15 Nov 2023 22:58 I received an email from Light in the Attic, celebrating that "Words and Music" had been nominated for a Grammy (!).
Buried in the email was the following:

Lastly, stay tuned! Very, very, very soon we’ll be announcing the next release in the [Lou Reed archive] series.

I don't want to get our hopes up. I listened to a podcast quite a while back where they hinted that the next release was going to be a reissue of Hudson River Wind Meditations. Let's hope it's something a little more interesting than that.

Hudson River Wind Meditations

That one was indeed confirmed through an article in a music magazine I looked at a few weeks back. It was the magazine they sell in Third Man Record shops.

That one was indeed confirmed through an article in a music magazine I looked at a few weeks back. It was the magazine they sell in Third Man Record shops.

Sadly, this seems correct. I was playing around on LITA's website. On the Transformer page, in the list of "similar releases," Wind Meditations came up, but it was a dead link, apparently not live yet. I don't get it - of all the things they could bring out that would be interesting, we get a rerelease of something that's relatively recent and not that hard to find (and, let's be honest, not really so interesting in the first place).

https://lightintheattic.net/products/tr ... -exclusive

hkmartin wrote: ↑17 Nov 2023 00:18

That one was indeed confirmed through an article in a music magazine I looked at a few weeks back. It was the magazine they sell in Third Man Record shops.

Sadly, this seems correct. I was playing around on LITA's website. On the Transformer page, in the list of "similar releases," Wind Meditations came up, but it was a dead link, apparently not live yet. I don't get it - of all the things they could bring out that would be interesting, we get a rerelease of something that's relatively recent and not that hard to find (and, let's be honest, not really so interesting in the first place).

https://lightintheattic.net/products/tr ... -exclusive

I cannot see the ‘dead link’, but the article is in this magazine

https://thirdmanstore.co.uk/collections ... s/issue-14

At this point in time I have no confidence in the LRA and LITA handling of the release of the material in the archive. I thought the way they dragged out the Words and Music release was pretty awful and the OTT format selection and artified packaging only served to emphasise the relative uninspiring content of the copyright tape itself. All to maximise profit for those involved. Honestly a cheap CD was all it deserved. These people managing the archive releases feels like a lost cause at the moment.

I cannot see the ‘dead link’, but the article is in this magazine

I see it after I refresh the page once or twice.

At this point in time I have no confidence in the LRA and LITA handling of the release of the material in the archive. I thought the way they dragged out the Words and Music release was pretty awful and the OTT format selection and artified packaging only served to emphasise the relative uninspiring content of the copyright tape itself. All to maximise profit for those involved. Honestly a cheap CD was all it deserved. These people managing the archive releases feels like a lost cause at the moment.

I happen to like Words & Music, but I hear you. You could argue that Words & Music was a big success for them. Two Grammy nominations and a lot of media attention, if not sales. It's hard to see how a rerelease of Wind Meditations will generate any kind of excitement, though, and I'm worried this will kill enthusiasm for further releases. I own Wind Meditations on CD, but I'm not sure I've ever even listened to it all the way through.

The worst thing about 'Words and Music' was that the press kit apparently made it seem as thought we'd never heard acoustic versions of any of those banana album songs, as though disc 1 of Peel Slowly and See never happened almost three decades ago.

(I'm assuming it was in the press kit/press release, because if more than two reviews mention some obscure fact, that's always where they're getting it from).

hkmartin wrote: ↑17 Nov 2023 00:18

That one was indeed confirmed through an article in a music magazine I looked at a few weeks back. It was the magazine they sell in Third Man Record shops.

Sadly, this seems correct. I was playing around on LITA's website. On the Transformer page, in the list of "similar releases," Wind Meditations came up, but it was a dead link, apparently not live yet. I don't get it - of all the things they could bring out that would be interesting, we get a rerelease of something that's relatively recent and not that hard to find (and, let's be honest, not really so interesting in the first place).

https://lightintheattic.net/products/tr ... -exclusive

I don't know a single Lou Reed fan who has been salivating for this re-release.

DavidH wrote: ↑19 Nov 2023 03:20 I don't know a single Lou Reed fan who has been salivating for this re-release.

I've got it, but haven't listened to it more than a few times.

the discogs figures say it all

Have: 301
Want: 226
Avg Rating: 3.33 / 5

DavidH wrote: ↑19 Nov 2023 03:19 The worst thing about 'Words and Music' was that the press kit apparently made it seem as thought we'd never heard acoustic versions of any of those banana album songs, as though disc 1 of Peel Slowly and See never happened almost three decades ago.

(I'm assuming it was in the press kit/press release, because if more than two reviews mention some obscure fact, that's always where they're getting it from).

I can't agree more. I mentioned the same thing a while ago :

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=146073&p=179166#p179166

Pre order details: https://lightintheattic.net/collections ... itations-1

Nothing for me there