PAUL ROLAND REISSUES GASLIGHT teamed up with German label Syborg for reissuing most of PAUL ROLAND´s backcatalogue. The first PR release will be a slightly different edition of ‘Re-Animator’ with a few bonus tracks (alternative mixes of ‘Abdul Alhazred’ and ‘Swamp Girl’), a very slightly different mix of ‘Assassins’ and it will kick off with the title track instead of ‘Charles Dexter Ward’ which now appears later in the running order. The first 500 copies will also include a bonus sampler CD featuring one track from each of the reissues that are planned to appear over the next two years at the rate of one every three months or so. These definitive reissues will have new cover artwork and booklets with photos from the period featuring sleeve notes by yours truly. I plan to make subtle but significant improvements to some of the tracks on these early albums as I did for ‘Duel’, ‘Gaslight Tales’ and ‘Strychnine…and Other Potent Poisons’. But those who would like to have only the retouched tracks or the rarer tracks will be able to download these separately from Apple-iTunes and other digital providers without having to buy the whole CD again. The first reissue will appear in January and the albums will reappear in chronological order. BURNT ORCHIDS/DANSE MACABRE (74:00 mins) + Death or Glory (original LP version) + Berlin + Dr Strange + Requiem (double vocal mix) A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES/HAPPY FAMILIES (58:18) + Alice’s House EP + Acoustic Radio Sessions DUEL (73 mins) A re-pressing of the ‘improved’ version released by the Greek label Haunted Forest in 2003 + Rock Radio Sessions (7 TRACKS) + Knights (original LP version) + King Is Dead (demo) + Crimes of Dr Cream (demo) MASQUE (74 mins) New running order with ‘The Ratcatcher’s Daughter’ and ‘The Sea Captain’ in the main album replacing ‘Matty Groves’ and ‘Grantchester Fields’ which will appear as bonus tracks. + 4 acoustic radio session tracks (from the same period with Valerie Franco – originally issued as bonus tracks on the ‘Strychnine’ album) ROARING BOYS/SARABANDE* (74mins) + Down To The Bone (*excluding the cover versions ‘Me & Devil Blues’, I’m Not Like Everybody Else’ + ‘Meadows of the Sea’ which have been re-recorded and will appear on the ‘Strychnine’ CD which collects all the cover versions on one album) GARGOYLES/PAVANE (80 mins) STRYCHNINE…And Other Potent Poisons (56 mins + extras) Re-pressing of the Italian CD + I’m Not Like Everybody Else (re-recording) + Meadows Of The Sea (re-recording) + Death Of A Clown + Dazed and Confused