In the Region of the Summer Stars
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In The Region Of The Summer Stars is The Enid
's debut album. It is based on the Tarot sequence and on the writings of Charles Williams. It was released in 1976 by EMI. A new version was released on the band's own label in 1984 following its deletion from the EMI catalogue.
, reconstructed the music for a purely instrumental line-up. The original name decided for the album was "The Voyage of the Acolyte", However Steve Hackett released an album with the same name and a similar concept.
In 1984, frustrated by the unavailability of the album, The Enid reconstructed it so that they could re-release it by themselves with substantial alterations made to the arrangements. The multi-track tapes for the music on side one came into their possession and so they were able to use most of them. Side one was essentially the same except that "Fool" was extended and some completely fresh music was added. Side two had to be completely re-recorded. It was re-recorded and mixed by Stephen Stewart and Robert John Godrey at The Lodge Studio in Clare, Suffolk. John Southard of TRAD Electronics provided them with the means to achieve the technical quality of the recording. It was digitally mastered and released on Vinyl LP with Slightly altered track names and "The Father and the Mother" by William Arkle as the new album cover.
In June 2010, following the poor quality illegal bootlegs that Inner Sanctum released, EMI agreed to grant an Exclusive Worldwide License for the original EMI release of the album to Operation Seraphim. The album was subsequently transferred from the original 30IPS 1/4 inch Dolby A tapes to 96 kHz 24 bit digital by Christian Curtis at Abbey Road. The tracks were mastered for CD by Max Read at The Lodge Recording Studio. The CD Artwork was taken from the original releases and incorporated into an eight page booklet. The album was released on Thursday 15 July 2010 and made available from The Enid’s online shop..
Side one
Side two
Side one
Side two
CD Bonus tracks
The Enid
The Enid is a British rock band founded in 1975 by Robert John Godfrey, Stephen Stewart and Francis Lickerish. Another early member was William Gilmour, who subsequently founded his own band Craft and now plays keyboards in Lickerish's band Secret Green....
's debut album. It is based on the Tarot sequence and on the writings of Charles Williams. It was released in 1976 by EMI. A new version was released on the band's own label in 1984 following its deletion from the EMI catalogue.
Story
In The Region Of The Summer Stars was originally composed as a largely vocal album, but recording plans had to be drastically and hurriedly reviewed when Peter Roberts, the band's singer and irreplaceable frontman killed himself on New Year's Eve. The band, under the leadership of Robert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey
Robert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
, reconstructed the music for a purely instrumental line-up. The original name decided for the album was "The Voyage of the Acolyte", However Steve Hackett released an album with the same name and a similar concept.
Release
In The Region Of The Summer Stars was recorded at Sarm Studio during late 1974 and the winter-spring of 1975 and released in 1976 on BUK Records, a label owned by EMI. EMI deleted it from their catalogue soon after and lost the multi-track tapes for side two.In 1984, frustrated by the unavailability of the album, The Enid reconstructed it so that they could re-release it by themselves with substantial alterations made to the arrangements. The multi-track tapes for the music on side one came into their possession and so they were able to use most of them. Side one was essentially the same except that "Fool" was extended and some completely fresh music was added. Side two had to be completely re-recorded. It was re-recorded and mixed by Stephen Stewart and Robert John Godrey at The Lodge Studio in Clare, Suffolk. John Southard of TRAD Electronics provided them with the means to achieve the technical quality of the recording. It was digitally mastered and released on Vinyl LP with Slightly altered track names and "The Father and the Mother" by William Arkle as the new album cover.
In June 2010, following the poor quality illegal bootlegs that Inner Sanctum released, EMI agreed to grant an Exclusive Worldwide License for the original EMI release of the album to Operation Seraphim. The album was subsequently transferred from the original 30IPS 1/4 inch Dolby A tapes to 96 kHz 24 bit digital by Christian Curtis at Abbey Road. The tracks were mastered for CD by Max Read at The Lodge Recording Studio. The CD Artwork was taken from the original releases and incorporated into an eight page booklet. The album was released on Thursday 15 July 2010 and made available from The Enid’s online shop..
Original 1976 Version
- All music composed and arranged by members of THE ENID
Side one
- "The Fool...
- "...The Falling Tower" (6:16)
- "Death, The Reaper" (3:59)
- "The Lovers" (5:17)
- "The Devil" (4:14)
Side two
- "The Sun" (4:39)
- "The Last Judgement" (8:12)
- "In The Region Of The Summer Stars" (6:19)
1984 Re-Issue
- All music composed and arranged by members of THE ENID; track titles were changed "largely on a whim", and the closing passages of Side 2 were rewritten by Godfrey in response to William Arkle's painting
Side one
- "Fool" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
) – (2:43) - "The Tower Of Babel" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
/Francis LickerishFrancis LickerishJohn Francis Lickerish, known professionally as Francis Lickerish , is a British composer, guitarist and lutenist, and founder member of British art-rock band The Enid....
/Stephen StewartStephen StewartStephen John Stewart is an Olympic-level rower, who competes for Australia. He is the younger brother of the dual bronze medal winning Olympic rowers James Stewart and Geoffrey Stewart...
) – (5:05) - "The Reaper" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
/Francis LickerishFrancis LickerishJohn Francis Lickerish, known professionally as Francis Lickerish , is a British composer, guitarist and lutenist, and founder member of British art-rock band The Enid....
/Stephen StewartStephen StewartStephen John Stewart is an Olympic-level rower, who competes for Australia. He is the younger brother of the dual bronze medal winning Olympic rowers James Stewart and Geoffrey Stewart...
) – (4:03) - "The Loved Ones" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
) – (5:20) - "The Demon King" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
/Francis LickerishFrancis LickerishJohn Francis Lickerish, known professionally as Francis Lickerish , is a British composer, guitarist and lutenist, and founder member of British art-rock band The Enid....
/Stephen StewartStephen StewartStephen John Stewart is an Olympic-level rower, who competes for Australia. He is the younger brother of the dual bronze medal winning Olympic rowers James Stewart and Geoffrey Stewart...
) – (4:18)
Side two
- "Pre-Dawn" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
) – (1:12) - "Sunrise" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
) – (3:27) - "The Last Day" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
/Francis LickerishFrancis LickerishJohn Francis Lickerish, known professionally as Francis Lickerish , is a British composer, guitarist and lutenist, and founder member of British art-rock band The Enid....
/Stephen StewartStephen StewartStephen John Stewart is an Olympic-level rower, who competes for Australia. He is the younger brother of the dual bronze medal winning Olympic rowers James Stewart and Geoffrey Stewart...
) – (7:59) - "The Flood" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
/Stephen StewartStephen StewartStephen John Stewart is an Olympic-level rower, who competes for Australia. He is the younger brother of the dual bronze medal winning Olympic rowers James Stewart and Geoffrey Stewart...
) – (1:12) - "Under The Summer Stars" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
/Francis LickerishFrancis LickerishJohn Francis Lickerish, known professionally as Francis Lickerish , is a British composer, guitarist and lutenist, and founder member of British art-rock band The Enid....
/Stephen StewartStephen StewartStephen John Stewart is an Olympic-level rower, who competes for Australia. He is the younger brother of the dual bronze medal winning Olympic rowers James Stewart and Geoffrey Stewart...
/Glen Tollet) – (5:42) - "Adieu" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
) – (3:03)
CD Bonus tracks
- The Enid label, 1988
- "Reverberations" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
) - (18
- "Reverberations" (Robert John Godfrey
- 34) :Godfrey solo piec
- InnerSanctum, 2001; WHD Entertainment, Inc. (Japan), 2006
- "Judgement" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
/Francis LickerishFrancis LickerishJohn Francis Lickerish, known professionally as Francis Lickerish , is a British composer, guitarist and lutenist, and founder member of British art-rock band The Enid....
) - "In the Region of the Summer Stars" (Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
/Francis LickerishFrancis LickerishJohn Francis Lickerish, known professionally as Francis Lickerish , is a British composer, guitarist and lutenist, and founder member of British art-rock band The Enid....
/Glen Tollet)
- "Judgement" (Robert John Godfrey
- Rough mixes from original recording, previously unrelease
1976 version
- Robert John GodfreyRobert John GodfreyRobert John Godfrey is a British composer, pianist and founder member of The Enid.Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of...
: Keyboards - Stephen Stewart: Guitars and Bass
- Francis LickerishFrancis LickerishJohn Francis Lickerish, known professionally as Francis Lickerish , is a British composer, guitarist and lutenist, and founder member of British art-rock band The Enid....
: Guitars - Glen Tollet: Bass
- Dave Storey: Drums and Percussion
- Dave Hancock: Trumpet
- Angus Boucher: Executive producer
- John Sinclair: Producer
- Gary Lyons: Engineer
- Dean Pywell: Sleeve design
- Colin Dunbar: Original concept
2010 reissue
- Christian Curtis (Abbey Road Studios): Digital transfer
- Max Read: CD Mastering
1984 version
All musicians as above except Dave Hancock, and with the addition of:- Chris North: Drums and Percussion (side 2)
- Neil Mitchell: Trumpet
- Robert John Godfrey, Stephen Stewart: Production and mixing
- John Southard (TRAD Electronics): Technical Assistance
- William Arkle: Cover art [except on the 2006 WHD Entertainment (Japan) reissue, which confusingly uses the 1976 artwork]