Los Angeles - Celebrating the 40th anniversary of UK's critically acclaimed   
   self-titled debut record released on Polydor in 1978, Eddie Jobson is making   
   this seminal album available on vinyl for the first time since its original   
   release. It will be    
   released on April 21st, and available exclusively to Record Store Day   
   participating retailers worldwide. The record is pressed on 180 gram vinyl,   
   and includes an 8 page full color booklet designed exclusively for this   
   release. The album is remastered    
   from the original tapes located at Abbey Road Studios in London, which is the   
   same master that was used in the now out of print “Ultimate Collector's   
   Edition” box set that compiled all the works of UK's 3 albums, along with   
   rarities, live material    
   and 5.1 versions across 18 discs.   
      
   “I'm pleased to recognize the 40th Anniversary of this seminal album with   
   this carefully remastered vinyl release. This is now a legacy recording, made   
   even more significant with the recent passing of both Wetton and Holdsworth,   
   that I hope will    
   represent a benchmark for future musicians.” - Eddie Jobson   
      
   The Music   
   In October 1977 the new supergroup featuring Eddie Jobson, Bill Bruford, John   
   Wetton and Allan Holdsworth entered the rehearsal room, each armed with a   
   panoply of musical ideas. Each song, theme, part or riff was logged in, like a   
   jigsaw piece, and so    
   the organizing and arranging of the individual pieces began. External   
   expectations were high, not just for what these four individual innovators   
   might create together, but because Trident Studios in Soho was already booked   
   to record the results of their    
   highly anticipated collaboration.   
      
   The music of UK would be developed over several weeks. Wetton would   
   reintroduce “Thirty Years,” a song first tried out with the Wakeman trio;   
   Bruford brought in some harmonic, but mostly rhythmic ideas. Holdsworth's   
   contributions revolved around his    
   distinctive chord voicings, forming the foundation of such tracks as   
   “Nevermore” and “Mental Medication.” Meanwhile, Jobson - the more   
   formal composer of the group - brought in pages of musical notation that   
   included the entire “In The Dead of    
   Night” suite, minus vocal melody lines, but including “By The Light of   
   Day” and the Zappa-influenced “Presto Vivace,” along with a complete   
   version of “Alaska,” the verse of “Time To Kill” and half of   
   “Nevermore.” The myriad musical    
   ideas were painstakingly stitched together, mainly by Bruford and Jobson, but   
   it would be Wetton's melodic and lyrical sense that would ultimately glue the   
   disparate stylings into something resembling cohesive songs. Notwithstanding   
   the considerable    
   stylistic contributions of Holdsworth and Bruford, with a full sixty percent   
   of the new album material emanating from Jobson's compositions, and with the   
   addition of Wetton's vocal melodies and lyrics, the first UK album truly   
   marked an auspicious    
   beginning to the highly symbiotic Jobson-Wetton writing partnership.   
      
   Trident Studios, December 1977   
   The “U.K.” album was recorded over a six-week period. Holdsworth's classic   
   guitar solo on “In The Dead of Night” was created on the fly. Wetton's   
   dense harmonies were carefully overdubbed over the course of many hours.   
   Jobson created the entire    
   electronic section of “Nevermore” on the studio's massive ARP 2500 modular   
   synthesizer. An amalgam of classical, jazz, rock and electronic, the first UK   
   album was considered truly groundbreaking; Rolling Stone magazine called it   
   “The great white    
   hope of progressive music.”   
      
   In 2016 Rolling Stone selected the “U.K.” album as one of the Top 30   
   “best progressive-rock albums of all time.” Though, in a burst of   
   collaborative brilliance, this towering lineup recorded only one album   
   together, the pioneering musicians known    
   as UK have still carved their place in rock history as one of the greatest   
   progressive-rock bands of all time, and have left this classic recording as an   
   exemplary standard for future musicians.   
      
   For more information   
   www.recordstoreday.com   
   #RSD18   
   @recordstoreday Twitter   
   @recordstoreday Facebook   
   @recordstoredayus Instagram    
      
   Eddie Jobson   
   http://www.zealotslounge.com ;     
   https://www.facebook.com/EJ.UK.fanpage/   
      
   Amped 2-Color-72.jpg   
   The album is available exclusively from Amped Distribution/Alliance   
   Entertainment. For more information contact alex@ampeddistribution.com and   
   phone 954 255 4505.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)