Gentle Giant and Acquiring The Taste New Remixes coming in November

Striking while the iron is hot, Alucard is releasing the first two Gentle Giant albums, newly remixed and remastered "from the original multitrack tapes". No word on who did the work, but most importantly, whither Three Friends???

"The album that started it all. Gentle Giant's 1970 self-titled debut album sees a U.S. pressing on CD for the first time in nearly 40 years with remixed and remastered audio. Produced by Tony Visconti and recorded in the summer of 1970, the debut announced a band with no interest in the ordinary. Across seven tracks the group moved between hard rock, chamber music, jazz and medieval counterpoint, with the five members trading off dozens of instruments - guitars, bass, violin, cello, organ, vibraphone, recorder, saxophone, trumpet and more. The record introduced the pieces that would define the band's live sets for a decade, among them "Giant," "Funny Ways" and "Nothing At All," alongside "Alucard" - the track that later gave the band's own label it's name. This edition presents the album in a new stereo mix drawn from the original multitrack tapes, housed in a digipak."

"Gentle Giant's 1971 sophomore album sees a U.S. pressing on CD for the first time in nearly 40 years with remixed and remastered audio. Recorded at Advision and AIR in London in the first months of 1971 and produced again by Tony Visconti, the record arrived barely seven months after the debut and pushed the band further out. It's liner notes state the intent plainly: each piece was written so that it should be "unique, adventurous and fascinating."The eight tracks move between hard rock, chamber writing, medieval counterpoint and early electronics, with a string quartet on "The Moon Is Down," Moog programmed by Chris Thomas, and the five members again trading off dozens of instruments - guitars, bass, violin, viola, cello, saxophones, clarinet, trumpet, mellotron, harpsichord, vibraphone and more.It is also the last Gentle Giant album to feature founding drummer Martin Smith. This edition presents the album in a new stereo mix drawn from the original multitrack tapes, housed in a digipak."