{"product_id":"enchanted","title":"Enchanted","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in August 1990, \u003cstrong\u003eMarc Almond’s\u003c\/strong\u003e opulent sixth studio album, \u003cem\u003eEnchanted\u003c\/em\u003e, is saturated in his signature poetic romanticism and contains some of his finest lyric writing in songs as various as the epic ‘\u003cem\u003eMadame De La Luna\u003c\/em\u003e’, ‘\u003cem\u003eDeath’s Diary\u003c\/em\u003e’ and ‘\u003cem\u003eOrpheus In Red Velvet\u003c\/em\u003e’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album’s lush lead single, ‘\u003cem\u003eA Lover Spurned\u003c\/em\u003e’, is a classic Almond power ballad of unrequited love with an equally thrilling production by Stephen Hague, employing a melodramatically thunderous 48-piece orchestra.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album, additional to its pronounced electronic pop production, is very much a journey through the world music influences that Marc was listening to at the time; he explains, “There are Indian bhangra influences on the track ‘\u003cem\u003eDeath’s Diary\u003c\/em\u003e’, Middle Eastern influences on ‘\u003cem\u003eOrpheus In Red Velvet\u003c\/em\u003e’, Brazilian lambada on ‘\u003cem\u003eCarnival of Life\u003c\/em\u003e’, Celtic flavourings on ‘\u003cem\u003eThe Sea Still Sings\u003c\/em\u003e’ and Latin drama on ‘\u003cem\u003eA Lover Spurned\u003c\/em\u003e’.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e3CD\/DVD Set - The original album is replicated on the first disc of this deluxe 3-disc set alongside all six B-Sides that originally featured across the various formats of the album’s three singles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second CD presents a selection of the original album demos evidencing a more acoustic intimacy that frames Almond’s superior song-writing craft in a counterpoint tradition of the deft and immediate story-telling thrust of the very best of European chanson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis disc also showcases the various commercially released spin-off extended versions and dance remixes of the album’s singles; ‘\u003cem\u003eA Lover Spurned\u003c\/em\u003e’, ‘\u003cem\u003eThe Desperate Hours\u003c\/em\u003e’ and ‘\u003cem\u003eWaifs and Strays\u003c\/em\u003e’, the last of which was remixed by Soft Cell partner Dave Ball in his guise as one half of electronic dance act The Grid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe three more instrumental leaning remixes, very much products of their time, have been placed at the end of the second disc as an interesting coda to this most definitive of expanded editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e2LP - The original album is replicated on the first record of this deluxe 2xLP set and the second record evidences, in both the B-Sides and the selection of original album demos that it contains, a more acoustic intimacy that frames Almond’s superior song-writing craft in a counterpoint tradition of the deft and immediate story-telling thrust of the very best of European chanson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SFE","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50460765618507,"sku":"1117466","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD | x3","offer_id":50460762505547,"sku":"1117465","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e2525286-7595-4c3f-a699-9b1b1cd3b1a1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727237822","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/enchanted","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}