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Candid records has announced a major drop of Chick Corea led recordings; The re-release of The Chick Corea Elektric Band’s original five groundbreaking albums - The Elektric Band, Light Years, Eye Of The Beholder, Inside Out, and Beneath The Mask, a previously unreleased live album with the original Elektric Band titled The Future Is Now, and a live recording of Corea performing with Orchestra da Camera della Sardegna in Sardinia, Italy titled Sardinia.
The original five Chick Corea Elektric Band albums are now back and streaming on all platforms. On December 1st The Complete Studio Recordings 1986-1991, a limited edition 5-LP box will be available. The 10 LP disc box set presents the albums in gatefold jackets, with printed inner sleeves, and restored artwork, in a deluxe slipcase. It also includes an envelope of reproduced removable memorabilia from Chick’s private archive. Originally edited and resequenced to fit on single LPs, this limited-edition box set restores all 5 Elektric Band studio albums to their original full running order for the very first time. These albums will also be available as individual CDs.
Also out now is the live Elektric Band album, The Future Is Now. Compiled by Corea before his passing in February of 2021, this incredible and previously unreleased album of live recordings with the reunited original Elektric Band, was captured during tour stops in 2016 and 2017. The 3 disc vinyl LP and 2 disc CD features in depth liner notes from Corea, and all of the Elektric Band members (John Patitucci, Dave Weckl, Eric Marienthal and Frank Gambale).
Additionally, the previously unreleased live Chick Corea album Sardina is out now. Recorded with the Orchestra da Camera della Sardegna in 2018, under the direction of conductor Simone Pittau, the album features Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24, and George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue.” This particular evening’s performance turned out to be one that Corea was extremely proud of, and he was eager to officially release the set as an album. His unique vision of a classical performance and his distinctive approach adds a touch of playfulness to the proceedings, while still upholding the integrity and reverence for the music. With the Mozart piece, Corea takes liberties and inserts flourishes as one might imagine Mozart may have done in his time. With Gershwin, he literally plays, and plays with, Gershwin’s passages, essentially improvising on Gershwin’s improvisations.