In 2024, Costello will be coming to Japan for the first time in eight years to perform a Japan tour with Steve Nieve, and the live performance at Asakusa Public Hall on April 12th, which was an additional performance in Tokyo, will be fully recorded from a high-quality digital audience master, and will also be released with a Blu-ray containing live footage from that day. First of all, the sound was recorded using the latest equipment from the front row of the arena, and since it was a simple live performance with just Costello playing the guitar, there was no sense of distance to Costello's vocals, and the digital remastering gave the illusion of him singing right in front of you. The footage taken with a digital camera realistically reproduces the scene of the day with stable HD quality, and the audio part is synchronized with the CD source. And above all, taking advantage of the large capacity of Blu-ray, the original HD quality video material is recorded without compression, and the quality, including the audio part, is a world apart from fragmented videos on YouTube and other sites. Another big topic of conversation this time was that the setlists for each day were completely different, and since there had already been two shows in Tokyo, the arrangements were completely different from those two days. The arrangements for each song were quite different, from songs close to the original to songs simplified for the duo, which were fresh and appealing, and also "She" was not played at all on the Australian tour with Imposters just before the Japan show, and "Alison" was a gentle closing song, so everything was worth listening to. In any case, since the setlists for each day of this Japan show were completely different, this is a must-have Japan commemorative item for fans to have at all shows.
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