The second wave of Devin Townsend‘s ‘Eras‘ vinyl collection re-releases will arrive on August 31st with a 2-piece set featuring his albums “Ocean Machine“, “Physicist“, “Terria“, “Synchestra” and “Infinity” planned for a release on that date. Townsend himself has offered up new liner notes and thoughts on the releases with this second wave and each of the albums have been remastered for vinyl. Townsend himself commented alongside the reveal of this second piece of the set:
“It has been over 25 years since I started this professional trip of mine with music as the anchor. In that time, I have spent a fair amount of energy describing the albums, rationalizing the albums, or just trying to basically explain the motivation behind them all. This ERAS box set series is a kind of monumental way for me to do it at one time, in one place.
The intent of these albums from the beginning, has not changed. Music has been the outlet to describe my experience with life, and obviously my experience is far from ‘unique’. I like to think all this music describes my point of view on things we all participate in. Life is crazy, and each step of the way offers new things, births, deaths, failures, successes, heartache, confusion, anger etc etc etc… I don’t have it figured out, but the music has helped me deal with it in my own way.
The albums were just snapshots of different periods in my life, and although it’s just music, they mean a lot to me. The process that drew them out has helped me move on to each consecutive project and my hope is that with these boxsets, it makes what I do in the future make a little more sense.
I really appreciate having the opportunity to present them in one place with such attention to detail. It’s such an honour to be able to do this and I thank everyone involved for the support and passion in making these box sets happen.
Cheers,
Devin.”
The series itself began back in early June with similar vinyl re-releases of the Devin Townsend Project albums “KI“, “Addicted“, “Deconstruction” and “Ghost“. Pre-orders for the collection can be found at this location. Townsend also just released a special orchestral live performance of “Ocean Machine” titled “Ocean Machine – Live at the Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv” earlier this month.
Meanwhile, in addition to other new releases Townsend has up his sleeve—including his new effort “Empath” that is expected out in March—he is also apparently working on a new release from his Casualties Of Cool side project. His partner in that undertaking, Ché Aimee Dorval, shared the below tweet about that this past weekend:
Started working on the next Casualties of Cool record today…. I missed this…. #casualtiesofcool #motivation #newmusic #inspiration @dvntownsend @MicEhrlund @WarwickFramus @jimdunlopusa @SuproUSA pic.twitter.com/9X730WPRKf
— Ché Aimee Dorval (@CheAimee) July 30, 2018
