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                  Elton John - Empty Sky (DTS 5.1 Surround CD)
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Type.................: DTS 5.1 Conversion
Platform.............: All
Part Size............: 25
Number of Parts......: 24
Compression Format...: RAR

Artist...............: Elton John 
Album................: Empty Sky
Year.................: 1969
Genre................: Pop

Audio Format.........: DTS WAV


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                                 Release Notes
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Not released in the U.S. until 1975, after he'd achieved superstardom, Elton John's first album is as much a part of late-'60s blues-rock and the burgeoning singer-songwriter movement as it is part of the grandiose pop catalogue that wouldsoon follow. The eight-minute-plus title song includes a long flute-harmonica-piano jam that wouldn't have been out of place on a Traffic album; the closing "Gulliver/It's Hay Chewed/Reprise" connects a waltz-time requiem with an acoustic-jazz instrumental and (rather audiciously for an unknown singer's debut) a reprise of bits from every song on the album.
Elsewhere, one can find a Lennonesque melody on "WesternFord Gateway", a breezy Summer-Of-Love feel on "Hymn 2000",and recurring imagery of a caged bird dreaming of flying away--most notably in the title song and the harsichord-and-organ tune "Skyline Pigeon". It all bursts with pop-rock melodicism, even when John was adding music to some of collaborator Bernie Taupin's most opaque, image-heavy lyrics. John would later call EMPTY SKY a "naive" record, but it contains the seeds of almost everything he would eventually do. 


TRACK 01 "Empty Sky"
TRACK 02 "Val-Hala"
TRACK 03 "Western Ford Gateway"
TRACK 04 "Hymn 2000"
TRACK 05 "Lady What's Tomorrow"
TRACK 06 "Sails"
TRACK 07 "The Scaffold"
TRACK 08 "Skyline Pigeon"
TRACK 09 "Gulliver - It's Hay Chewed - Reprise"

Bonus Tracks.

TRACK 10 "Lady Samantha"
TRACK 11 "All Across The Havens"
TRACK 12 "It's Me That You Need"
TRACK 13 "Just Like Strange Rain"   



Note: These tracks are remixed into surround 5.1 and encoded into DTS. They can be played through a stand alone home theatre decoder capable of decoding a DTS signal provided that the CD or DVD player is
connected digitally to the decoder using either a digital coaxial or digital optical toslink cable. If the player is connected using analogue cables you will only hear white noise and could damage your loudspeakers. These tracks can also be played on computers with player programs like Foobar (with dts plugin), KM Player, VLC Player, etc.

This download contains a DTS encoded WAV file of the entire album and a CUE sheet to enable burning to CD with the correct track pointers.

Ensure both these files are downloaded to the same folder (create a folder if you like) and DO NOT rename the files.

If you have a popular burning program such as Roxio or Nero installed it may recognise the CUE file so just double click it to load and then burn to a CD. 

Alternatively, you can install the enclosed (Free) program "ImgBurn" and use that.


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