from www.porcupinetree.com

08-08-2007

Porcupine Tree release a new EP in September called "Nil Recurring". It will feature 4 tracks (just under 30 minutes of music) that were written during the Fear of a Blank Planet sessions, including the title track featuring Robert Fripp on guitar, and "Cheating the Polygraph", which was premiered on the 2006 tour, but subsequently left off the Fear of a Blank Planet album.

Full track listing is:

1. Nil Recurring (6.08)
2. Normal (7.07)
3. Cheating the Polygraph (7.06)
4. What Happens Now? (8.23)

Surround sound mixes of the new EP tracks will be included on the definitive Fear of a Blank Planet 5.1 DVDA edition. This DVDA will also include a special Fear of a Blank Planet introduction short film made by Lasse Hoile, and the video for the title track.

Both the Nil Recurring and Fear of a Blank Planet DVDA will be officially released on 25th September, but the PT Store will be taking pre-orders soon.

Time to double dip.

I've been pacing myself on FOABP CD so that I won't get too tired of it prior to the DVD A release...glad it looks like a real winner.

Time to double dip.
Yep.

Since surround releases are so slim [the ones I care for] I think I'll bite to get the DVD-A of FOTBP.

I've already got the DVD-V of FoaBP, but seriously, how can you not get this release? EP in surround, bonus video?

I'll be right there when the pre-order comes online.

sweet.... Between this one and the Blackfield DVD it will make for a nice Fall.

I can't wait for the DVD-A release of FoaBP! I recently got my hands on the surround-sound DVD-V version and it brought out an aural experience that enhanced my listening pleasure for this music, something I was already familiar with as a 2-channel recording.

I want to digress a little about differences in surround sound recordings and my personal views of them. There is the school personified by AIX in which the recording strives to capture the 3-dimensional ambiance of a live concert in very high fidelity for the listener, which is a worthy enterprise. Then there is the school typified by Steve Wilson and Elliot Scheiner and Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads Brick) and Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead releases), to mention a select few, who use the full 3-dimensional space surrounding the listener to open up recordings and to play with the listening psychology with a spatial interplay of sounds and instruments. When done well, this is the aural equivalent of cleaning up an old Master's painting. Something familiar (or not familiar like a new PT release) gets recreated into a greater work that delights the listening senses to a new level of appreciation. This is what great surround sound recordings mean to me. I revel in the greater sonic and spatial pallets that such recordings provide.

I want to digress a little about differences in surround sound recordings and my personal views of them. There is the school personified by AIX in which the recording strives to capture the 3-dimensional ambiance of a live concert in very high fidelity for the listener, which is a worthy enterprise. Then there is the school typified by Steve Wilson and Elliot Scheiner and Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads Brick) and Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead releases), to mention a select few, who use the full 3-dimensional space surrounding the listener to open up recordings and to play with the listening psychology with a spatial interplay of sounds and instruments. When done well, this is the aural equivalent of cleaning up an old Master's painting. Something familiar (or not familiar like a new PT release) gets recreated into a greater work that delights the listening senses to a new level of appreciation. This is what great surround sound recordings mean to me. I revel in the greater sonic and spatial pallets that such recordings provide.

Quoted for truth. You couldn't have said it any better. That's why I got into DVD-A and SACD. The higher resolution is a bonus!