Disc Union Boxed Sets
Thursday, November 26, 2009Beautiful boxed sets, with unique sketch included...
Two new products which look absolutely amazing and are beautifully produced.These boxed sets of CDs, produced by Disc Union in Japan in an edition of 300 each, have unpublished versions of “Tales From Topographic Oceans” and “Relayer” on the covers. A reproduction of the “Relayer” painting is reproduced on page 65 of Roger's new book Dragons Dream.
The reproduction of the mini gatefolds is the best that Roger has seen of the Yes albums. He did not have the opportunity of reworking them from scratch as he did with the Repertoire releases where his brother Martyn rescanned everything and on several occasions re-photographed the original artwork, they did however achieve one notable success and that was with the packaging of Yessongs.
When he designed this the Yessongs album in 1973 he worked out a method of folding paper that would allow a gatefold of multiple pages to open like a book and for this he took out a joint patent with the then printers Tinsly Robor . The resulting package was, as far as he knows, only produced in the UK and then only for a short time.
Soon after the album's release there was a worldwide shortage of paper that seriously curtailed the number of gatefolds that were produced years before CDs came on the scene. The Victoria and Alpert Museum, in London acquired samples of it for the Print and Drawings department for their permanent collection, this was alongside the drawings and paintings for the original Yes logos, a dozen or so other of Roger's album covers and record labels.
Over the years he has tried to get the package manufactured properly, Atlantic's in house printers had said it was too complicated! It was doubly frustrating when Atlantics Japanese company East West Japan made the first replica gatefolds they copied the US zig-zag version which he felt not only looked unattractive but had the pictures in the wrong order. Finally after 36 years a correct version not only printed beautifully but also opening like a book, as it should.
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