RUSH Releases ‘Limelight (Live In YYZ 1981)’ From ‘Moving Pictures – 40th Anniversary’

RUSH has merely launched the official audio for “Limelight (Reside In YYZ 1981)” from the upcoming “Transferring Images – Fortieth Anniversary” set. Try it out beneath.

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On April 15, UMe/Mercury and Anthem Knowledge label groups proceed the in depth RUSH Fortieth-anniversary album assortment with new, expanded editions of the band’s groundbreaking 1981 launch “Transferring Images”, embodying its well-deserved conventional album standing. “Transferring Images – Fortieth Anniversary” may be accessible to followers in six distinct configurations, along with the (1) Super Deluxe Model, (2) three-CD Deluxe Model, (3) five-LP Deluxe Model, (4) one-LP Model, (5), Digital Deluxe Model, and (6) Dolby Atmos Digital Model and could possibly be pre-ordered proper right here.

“Transferring Images”, RUSH‘s eighth studio album, was initially launched on February 12, 1981, and its adventurous-yet-accessible music catapulted the forward-thinking Canadian band to even newer heights as a result of it began navigating the requires of a model new decade. The album’s seven songs expertly blended RUSH‘s intrinsic prowess for channeling its progressive roots into radio-friendly preparations, a template the band had mastered to a T all all by means of its earlier album, 1980’s deservedly lauded “Eternal Waves”. “Transferring Images” was moreover the second of many RUSH recording intervals at Le Studio in Morin-Heights, Quebec, which was in the long run nicknamed the trio’s private non-public Abbey Avenue recording studio.

The album’s lead-off observe, “Tom Sawyer”, turned one in every of RUSH‘s most cherished FM favorites together with taking its rightful place as a perpetual stay efficiency staple for a few years to return. Subsequent, the band shifts into the multi-generational dreamscape of “Purple Barchetta”, which chronicles the thrills and chills of a high-stakes backroads automotive race. The instrumental barnburner “YYZ”, lovingly named after the airport identification code for Toronto’s Pearson Worldwide Airport, runs the gamut of the band’s perpetually spectacular progressive chops in beneath 4 minutes flat. Side A closes out with the observational luminescence of “Limelight”, a timeless, if not prescient take a look at how introverted artists grapple with public requires whereas attempting to maintain up a non-public stage of earned privateness.

Side B commences with the expansive palette of “The Digicam Eye”, a multi-layered, ten-minute-long travelogue that takes a fowl’s eye view of the inherent hustle and bustle of New York Metropolis counterbalanced with the acute vitality and deep-rooted historic previous of London. “Witch Hunt” (subtitled as being “Half III of Concern”) offers a grim view of prejudice and mob mentality, whereas the album wraps up with the angular, cutting-edge “Essential Indicators”, a propulsive observe that clearly foreshadows numerous the additional adventurous musical directions RUSH would undertake as a result of the ever-shifting Eighties continued to unfold.

The Super Deluxe Model consists of three CDs, one Blu-ray Audio disc, and 5 high-quality 180-gram black vinyl LPs. The set encompasses the Abbey Avenue Mastering Studios 2015 remastered model of the album for the first time on CD, along with two discs of beforehand unreleased and newly restored bonus keep content material materials newly mixed from the distinctive analog keep multi-tracks by RUSH‘s distinctive producer, Terry Brown, that features the band’s full, unreleased Toronto stay efficiency from Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, on March 25, 1981 (designated proper right here as “Reside In YYZ 1981”). The fourth bonus disc is a Blu-ray Audio disc with the core album newly mixed from the distinctive multi-tracks in Dolby Atmos (a RUSH catalog first!), Dolby TrueHD 5.1, and DTS-HD Grasp Audio 5.1 embody sound as accomplished by well-known producer/engineer Richard Chycki, alongside the beforehand accessible PCM Stereo mix. Moreover included on the Blu-ray are 4 bonus motion pictures: a brand-new video for “YYZ” plus three remastered traditional promo motion pictures for “Tom Sawyer”, “Limelight” and “Essential Indicators”. Furthermore, the whole vinyl inside the Super Deluxe Model has been decrease by means of half-speed Direct to Metallic Mastering (DMM) (one different RUSH catalog first!) on 5 180-gram audiophile LPs.

The Super Deluxe Model of “Transferring Images – Fortieth Anniversary” could even embrace quite a few distinctive objects, along with a 44-page hardcover information with unreleased photographs and new work by distinctive album designer Hugh Syme, along with new illustrations for each tune; in depth liner notes by Kim Thayil (guitarist, SOUNDGARDEN), Les Claypool (bassist/vocalist, PRIMUS), Taylor Hawkins (drummer, FOO FIGHTERS), Bill Kelliher (guitarist, MASTODON), and Neil Sanderson (drummer, THREE DAYS GRACE); a Purple Barchetta model automotive mounted on a black perch with an MP40 nameplate; two Neil Peart signature MP40 branded drumsticks; two metal-embossed guitar picks, one each with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson‘s respective signatures engraved on them; a replica of the “Transferring Images” 1981 official tour program; an MP40 model enamel pin; a 3D lenticular “Transferring Images in motion” lithograph; an 18×24-inch Toronto 1981 stay efficiency poster; a replica stay efficiency ticket from the 1981 Maple Leaf Gardens current; a 12×36-inch Rush By the use of The Years 1973-1981 poster; a YYZ baggage tag; and a All Entry World Tour ’81 insert. All contents are housed in a premium lift-top discipline, which choices movingly reimagined cowl work by Hugh Syme.

The second configuration of “Transferring Images – Fortieth Anniversary” may be launched in a three-CD Deluxe Model digipak that options the newly remastered distinctive album on CD 1 and your total, unreleased 1981 Toronto stay efficiency on CDs 2 and three. Extras embrace a 24-page booklet with unreleased photographs and reimagined work by Syme, along with the aforementioned liner notes by Thayil, Claypool, Hawkins, Kelliher and Sanderson.

The third “Transferring Images” configuration may be equipped as a five-LP Deluxe Model, all of it housed in a slipcase along with a single-pocket jacket for the remastered distinctive “Transferring Images” on LP 1, and two gatefold jackets for LPs 2-5 that comprise all 19 tracks from the whole, unreleased “Reside In YYZ” 1981 stay efficiency. As well-known above, all vinyl has been decrease for the first time ever by means of half-speed Direct to Metallic Mastering (DMM) on 180-gram black audiophile vinyl. Extras embrace a 24-page booklet with unreleased photographs, Syme‘s reimagined work and new illustrations, and the whole liner notes.

The fourth configuration is a one-LP eCommerce distinctive model, that features the first-ever half-speed DMM vinyl pressing. It comes newly wrapped in a limited-edition premium tip-on mannequin gatefold jacket with printed sleeve, and each pressing comes with one in every of six randomly inserted Neil Peart hand-drawn lyrics sheets.

The fifth configuration, the Deluxe Digital Model, choices the distinctive album and all 19 bonus keep performances from Toronto, and is the digital equal to the three-CD Deluxe Model.

Lastly, the sixth configuration, the Dolby Atmos Digital Model, is the digital equal of Richard Chycki‘s masterful Atmos combination of all seven tracks from the distinctive album.

RUSH — bassist/keyboardist/vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist/vocalist Alex Lifeson, and drummer/lyricist Neil Peart — maintains an enormous and uniquely passionate worldwide fanbase that acknowledges and respects the band’s singular, daring, and perpetually exploratory songcraft that mixes sterling musicianship, difficult compositions, and distinctive lyrical aptitude. RUSH has supplied higher than 25 million albums inside the U.S. alone, with worldwide product sales estimated at 45 million (and counting), and has been awarded 24 gold, 14 platinum, and three multi-platinum album distinctions. RUSH has obtained seven Grammy nominations, and the band was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame in 1994 and the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013.