Seattle supergroup Mad Season will re-reissue an expanded edition of their sole album ‘Above’.
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Mad Season featured Layne Staley (Alice In Chains), Mike McCreedy (Pearl Jam), Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees) and John Baker Saunders (Lamont Cranston Band). Saunders died in 1999. Staley died in 2002.
‘Above’ was their one and only album released in 1995.
The expanded edition of ‘Above’ is scheduled for April 2, 2013.
Details are:
Above (Deluxe Edition) is a three-disc set comprised of two CDs and one DVD.
CD 1 features the original album + an unreleased acoustic instrumental titled “Interlude,” 3 new songs from the band’s unfinished second album with newly recorded vocals and lyrics by Mark Lanegan and a remixed version of the band’s John Lennon cover “I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier”
CD 2 features the full audio set from the bands historical performance at the Moore Theater in Seattle on April 29, 1995, remastered in stereo sound.
The DVD features the first official DVD release of Live at The Moore, remixed and remastered and newly edited by director Duncan Sharp. Also featured is a full concert of the bands performance from New Years Eve 1995 at RKCNDY in Seattle and both performances from Self-Pollution Radio, one newly edited.
A full-color collector’s booklet features previously unseen performance photographs and an essay by Barret Martin reflecting on the lives of Staley and Saunders and the history of the band.
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