ALPHAVILLE - Salvation - (2023 Remaster w/ Booklet) - 2LP - Gatefold 180g Vinyl [TBC]

2LP - 180g Black Vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve (2023 Remaster). Overseen by Alphaville 's founding members Marian Gold and Bernhard Lloyd, this marks the first-ever remastering of the album and it's first time on vinyl. Side D features 4 Bonus tracks. It comes in a gatefold sleeve with an extensive 20-page booklet which features many new, partly unpublished photos.

Iconic German pop group Alphaville is happy to announce the next reissue from their classic catalogue. Building on the success of their previous album reissues, the band is now set to release Deluxe Editions of "Prostitute," originally released in 1994, and its successor "Salvation," from 1997. Overseen by Alphaville 's founding members Marian Gold and Bernhard Lloyd, this marks the first-ever remastering of these albums.

Both albums are also being released on vinyl for the very first time. The vinyl comes as a limited edition featuring extensive booklets with essays/liner notes by Marian Gold and Bernhard Lloyd. Additionally, the booklet of “Salvation” offers many new, partly unpublished photos.

"Salvation," released on September 1, 1997, marked ALPHAVILLE's fifth studio album and signaled a new phase in their musical journey. The album spawned the singles "Wishful Thinking" and "Flame." It was produced by Andy Richards and, unlike its predecessors, was recorded mainly in London, at Eden Studios, with further recordings taking place at Metropolis Studios and Stone Room Studios. The mixing also took place at these three studios, plus at Nucleus recording studio.

The 2 LP Black Vinyl contains the original album (remastered) on Sides A-C and Side D features 4 remixes. It comes in a gatefold sleeve with a 20-page booklet.

Speaking about “Salvation”, Marian Gold muses: “To me, ‘Salvation’ seems like a rather complicated idea that is supposed to somehow overcome nothingness, this dreadful, unacceptable thing. Which is exactly why it’s so appealing. Where there is darkness, ignorance, distance or death, our desire for salvation ignites. I think it is silly to say that our tiny, limited life is only a moment in the eternal. It's the other way round, the eternal is in our tiny, limited life! As for how it fits in there? I have no idea, really.”

Adds Bernhard Lloyd: "‘Salvation’, I love this album, could have well been the second Alphaville album, if you ask me. It seems to me today, as it did then, as if made from one piece. 12 songs that fit together, that have their own style, their own sound aesthetic. Without major external influences, created in the seclusion of a perceived enclave and then produced with Andy Richards in the Mecca of pop music, in London. Since the 90s were truly not the decade of vinyl, but of the CD, ‘Salvation’ is now finally released for the first time on vinyl with this remastered reissue.”

Alphaville 's "Prostitute" and "Salvation" Deluxe Editions offer another impressive showcase of the group’s enduring musical work. The upcoming Deluxe Editions follow the previous reissues of "Forever Young" (2019) and the double release of "The Breathtaking Blue" and "Afternoons in Utopia" (2021).

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Inside Out (2023 Remaster)
2. Monkey in the Moon (2023 Remaster)
3. Guardian Angel (2023 Remaster)
4. Wishful Thinking (2023 Remaster)

Side B
1. Flame (2023 Remaster)
2. Point of Know Return (2023 Remaster)
3. Control (2023 Remaster)
4. Dangerous Places (2023 Remaster)

Side C
1. Spirit of the Age (2023 Remaster)
2. Soul Messiah (2023 Remaster)
3. New Horizons (2023 Remaster)
4. Pandora's Lullaby (2023 Remaster)

Side D (Bonus Tracks):
1. Wishful Thinking (Radiomix Turbobeat) (2023 Remaster)
2. Life Is King (2023 Remaster)
3. Wishful Thinking (Physical 12“ Mix) (2023 Remaster)
4. Flame (Radiomix Turbobeat) (2023 Remaster)