1 seller, Queen's "A Night at the Opera," which I don't think is an actual DVD-A, it's just a plain DVD. The DVD-A titles are just as ancient, starting with the No. Krall's SACD is the most recent recording on the list, and it's from 2004, while most of the titles date from the 1970s! So I'm left wondering, why aren't more new rock or jazz titles coming out in 5.1? At the time this post was written, "Dark Side" was followed by Eric Clapton's "Slowhand" then Elton John's self-titled album Norah Jones' "Come Away With Me" Billy Joel's "Piano Man" Diana Krall's "Girl in the Other Room" and so on. Punch up " SACD" on and what do you see? Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is the best-selling SACD, and it has one of the best-sounding music-surround mixes I've heard. I agree the band has championed music surround as a viable alternative to stereo, but, sadly, Porcupine Tree may be the only band out there keeping the faith. Whenever I bring up the "Whatever happened to music surround?" question somebody inevitably mentions Porcupine Tree. Format compatibility was an issue with surround formats. Both formats are still limping along, and hardware manufacturers are still making new players. True, music fans would have to buy new high-resolution players, and the discs were priced higher than CDs, but the record companies were offering music lovers the chance to hear sound coming out of all of their home theater speakers! How could the market possibly resist that? I know how: SACD and DVD-A releases trickled out so slowly that most music buyers were unaware of their existence. There were millions of households in the early 2000s with multichannel home theaters, so selling new music surround formats looked like a slam-dunk proposition. Of course the record labels knew selling a new format on the basis of sound quality was a risky business, so they tacked on 5.1 surround sound. Their futures looked bright, so why did they fail? The SACD and DVD-A formats debuted at the dawn of the century, promising vastly improved sound quality over the CD, and both formats flopped. The blu-ray (audio only) edition includes high res stereo, a 5.1 mix of the album, and a bonus 5.1 mix of the new version of ‘Lazarus’ (recently included on the Transience vinyl compilation).Quadraphonic was the first music surround format, and the first to bite the dust.
The vocals on this new version are sung as a duet between Steven and Ninet Tayeb.Īlso appearing on the album are members of Steven’s band over the last few years Adam Holzman, Nick Beggs, Guthrie Govan, Dave Kilminster, Craig Blundell, Marco Minnemann, Chad Wackerman, and Theo Travis.Ĥ ½ is released on CD, 180 gram vinyl, and blu-ray, with all formats housed in a beautiful die-cut sleeve photographed by Lasse Hoile and designed by Carl Glover. The final track is a version of ‘Don’t Hate Me’, a song originally recorded by Porcupine Tree in 1998, and is based on a live recording made on the recent tour of Europe with additional recording later done in the studio. Erase., and one from the recording sessions for the previous album The Raven that Refused to Sing. 4 of the songs originated during the sessions for Hand. and the next studio album, To The Bone.Ĥ ½ comprises 6 tracks with a total running time of 37 minutes. 2016 saw the release of the Steven Wilson album 4 ½, so titled because it forms an interim release between Steven’s recently released fourth album Hand.
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