ELP’s Black Moon and In The Hot Seat set for reissue

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Black Moon and In The Hot Seat albums will be remastered and reissued this summer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Two more albums by Emerson, Lake & Palmer are to be remastered and reissued later this year.

The trio’s back catalogue was signed over to BMG in November 2015 which has seen the label re-release most of the band’s material since.

Now it’s been announced that their final two records, 1992’s Black Moon and 1994’s In The Hot Seat, will also be reissued and released on July 28.

Like the previous re-issues, the two albums have been remastered by studio engineer Andy Pearce and will be available on CD, 140-gram vinyl and HD digital download. The CDs will contain extensive liner notes, rare photographs and band interviews by journalist Chris Welch.

Black Moon will feature all 10 original album tracks along with edited versions of Black Moon, Affairs Of The Heart, Paper Blood and Prokofiev’s Romeo And Juliet. The reissue will also include the Live At The Royal Albert Hall release which first came out in January 1993.

In The Hot Seat will feature all the original album tracks along with live cuts which were first heard on 1998 double album Then & Now including Tiger In The Spotlight, Hoedown and Keith Emerson’s solo piano hit Honky Tonk Train Blues.

Both albums are available for pre-order via a PledgeMusic campaign. Find out more.

Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy will head out on a UK tour later this year. Find a list of live dates below.

Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy 2017 UK tour dates

Nov 17: St Helen’s The Citadel
Nov 18: Pwllheli HRH Prog V
Nov 19: Milton Keynes The Stables
Nov 25: Howden Shire Hall
Nov 29: Wimborne Tivoli Theater
Nov 30: Southampton 1865 Club
Dec 01: Fletching Trading Boundaries
Dec 02: Fletching Trading Boundaries

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