Van Der Graaf Generator / The Charisma Years 1970-1978 Box Set (3 Blu-Ray's & Surround)

English prog rock band Van Der Graaf‘s entire recorded work for Charisma Records is being released in a 17CD+3 x blu-ray box set. This package features remastered albums, bonus tracks, BBC sessions, rare video footage, new stereo remixes and 5.1 surround versions.
The studio albums features on The Charisma Years are as follows: The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other (1970), H to He Who Am the Only One (1970), Pawn Hearts (1971), Godbluff (1975), Still Life (1976), World Record (1976) and The Quiet Zone / The Pleasure Dome (1977).

The last four CDs in The Charisma Years (CD14 to CD17) are new stereo mixes of H to he Who Am the Only One, Pawn Hearts, Godbluff and Still Life. These have been remixed from the original multi-track tapes by Stephen W Tayler.
Two blu-rays also include these stereo mixes in hi-res and offer 5.1 surround sound mixes of all four of those albums. These have also been created by Stephen W Tayler.

Finally, this mammoth box concludes with another blu-ray with rare and unreleased video footage. This is apparently “all of the surviving Van Der Graaf Generator television footage and promotional films” and includes the band’s appearance on German TV’s Beat Club in 1970, a filmed appearance at The Bataclan in Paris in 1972 for the French TV show Pop Deux, the 1972 appearance on Pop Shop for RTBF Belgium, the promotional films for ‘Wondering’ and ‘Cat’s Eye’ and a 20 minute documentary with live footage shot by Austrian television at The Kohfidisch Open Air Festival, Austria in June 1978.
The Charisma Years comes packaged with a 68-page book and is released on 3 September 2021, via UMC/Virgin.

• BOTH ALBUMS IN HIGH RESOLUTION 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIX / NEW STEREO MIX / ORIGINAL STEREO MIX
  H to He Who Am the Only One
  1. Killer
  2. House with No Door
  3. The Emperor in His War Room
  4. Lost
  5. Pioneers Over C
• Pawn Hearts
  1. Lemmings (including Cog)
  2. Man Erg
  3. A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers:
     a) Eyewitness b) Pictures / Lighthouse c) Eyewitness d) SHM e) Presence of the Night f) Kosmos Tours g) (Custard’s) Last Stand h) The Clot Thickens i) Land’s End (Sineline) j) We Go now
• Blu-ray #2: ‘Godbluff’ and ‘Still Life’BOTH ALBUMS IN HIGH RESOLUTION 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIX / NEW STEREO MIX / ORIGINAL STEREO MIX
  Godbluff
  1. The Undercover Man
  2. Scorched Earth
  3. Arrow
  4. The Sleepwalkers
• Still Life
  1. Pilgrims
  2. La Rossa
  3. My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)
  4. Childlike Faith in Childhood’s End
• Blu-ray #3: The Video Vaults
  1. Darkness (‘Beat Club’ – German TV 23 June 1970) – previously unreleased
  2. Whatever Would Robert Have Said (‘Beat Club’ – German TV 23 June 1970) – previously unreleased
  3. Lost (‘Pop Deux’ Filmed at The Bataclan Theatre, Paris 18 March 1972 – Previously unreleased)
  4. Killer (‘Pop Deux’ Filmed at The Bataclan Theatre, Paris 18 March 1972 – Previously unreleased)
  5. Octopus (‘Pop Deux’ Filmed at The Bataclan Theatre, Paris 18 March 1972 – Previously unreleased)
  6. Theme One (‘Pop Shop’ Recorded 23 March 1972 for RTBF, Belgium) First official release.
  7. A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers (‘Pop Shop’ Recorded 23 March 1972 for RTBF, Belgium) First official release.
  8. The Undercover Man (Live in Charleroi Palais des Expos – 27 September 1975) First official release.
  9. Arrow (Live in Charleroi Palais des Expos – 27 September 1975) First official release.
  10. Scorched Earth (Live in Charleroi Palais des Expos – 27 September 1975) First official release.
  11. Sleepwalkers (Live in Charleroi Palais des Expos – 27 September 1975) First official release.
  12. Wondering (Charisma promotional film 1976) Previously unreleased
  13. Cat’s Eye (Charisma promotional film) Previously unreleased
  14. Van der Graaf in Concert (The Kohfidisch Open Air Festival, Austria 17 June 1978 recorded by ORF TV). Previously unreleased

You can read about it here: Van Der Graaf Generator / The Charisma Years 1970-1978 – SuperDeluxeEdition