A super-excellent live album that will be the masterpiece of the European edition "US + THEM" has appeared. This masterpiece was born "July 11, 2018 Lucca performance". It is an audience recording from the appearance at the Italian music festival "LUCCA SUMMER FESTIVAL 2018". This event is a huge outdoor festival with a history of 20 years this year. This year, it was held for a total of 14 days for about one month from June 23 to July 26, and a number of distinguished artists participated, including QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES, Ringo Starr, Nick Cave, KING CRIMSON, etc. Among them, Roger Waters appeared as the main act on the 6th day. We have always reported the latest situation of "US + THEM" with live albums, but let's check the position of the show in the 2018 tour schedule.・January 24th-February 20th: Oceania (12 performances) ・April 13th-June 23rd: Europe #1 (36 performances) ・June 26th-July 7th: UK (8 performances) ・July 11th-August 31st: Europe #2 (15 performances) ←★Here★ ・October 9th-November 24th: South America (15 performances) ・November 28th-December 9th: Mexico (7 performances) This is the schedule that has been announced so far. In 2017, they toured North America, but this year they toured other regions carefully. In Europe, they had their home country of England in between, and this Lucca performance was the first day of "Europe #2" when they returned to the continent. This work, which records such a show, is truly the best recording of the European edition. Of course, it cannot be said that it is the peak until the end of August, but it is probably impossible to surpass this work... It is an abnormally high-quality recording of such a level. The sound is fiercely on and the details are super detailed. To put it simply, it's a type that goes "like a soundboard", but that alone doesn't explain the beautiful sound of this work. To be honest, "US + THEM" has such a high level of customer recording that it can be said to be the best in the rock world, and there are many soundboard-like recordings. Even with that high standard, the sound of this work is outstanding. What's great above all is the clarity and closeness. As mentioned above, "LUCCA SUMMER FESTIVAL" is an outdoor venue, so there are no walls or ceilings that bounce the sound back, and the output sound of the PA is picked up directly. It is a direct recording that can be said to be of official class, but that's not all. Although there is no echo, the feeling of "stretching" towards the void outside is captured, and it is amazing because it is a natural effect and produces a spectacle. Of course, if it becomes a boneless sense of distance, there is no point, but this work is different. Although I don't know how far the actual position is from the stage, there is no doubt that it is right next to the PA. The deep bass is earth-shaking yet lustrous, without even a moment of trembling, and the roar of the synth is a huge spectacle that stretches into space. Even the numerous SEs are super clear, for example, in "Welcome to the Machine," the red sea becomes a crowd, and the murmuring SE is so delicate that it seems as if each person is really there. If this was an official live album, the sound board's multi-track production would be added, polished, and finished into a beautiful sound, but this work is amazing because it is a one-take audience recording. While it is an official-class sound, it also has the rawness of the vibration of the air at the scene without any artificiality. It is a live album of elegance that goes beyond even the official class. The show depicted with that sound can be said to be the polished finished form of "US + THEM". Until the "Europe # 1" on the above schedule, there was trial and error such as replacement, but that was gradually fixed. Since July this year, the ironclad set has not been shaken. I have reported on the final version of this work on live albums such as "DEFINITIVE BERLIN 2018 2ND NIGHT", "MANCHESTER 2018" and "HYDE PARK 2018", but listening to it with the ultimate beautiful sound is different. It makes you realize the true value of "US + THEM", which is heavy, magnificent and vast. Following last year, "US + THEM" is spreading the biggest spectacle in the rock world to the world. This is a masterpiece that contains the ultimate European version with an extraordinary high quality sound. It is a masterpiece of beautiful sound that will probably continue to reign as a representative work of 2018 in the future. Live at Ex Campo Balilla, Mura di Lucca, Lucca, Italy 11th July 2018 ULTIMATE SOUND Disc 1 (79:56) 1. Soundscape 2. Speak to Me 3. Breathe 4. One of These Days 5. Time 6. Breathe (Reprise) 7. The Great Gig in the Sky 8. Welcome to the Machine 9. Deja Vu 10. The Last Refugee 11. Picture That 12. Wish You Were Here 13. The Happiest Days of Our Lives 14. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 15. Another Brick in the Wall Part 3 16. Intermission Disc 2 (79:49) 1. Intermission 2. Battersea Power Station Rising 3. Dogs 4. Pigs (Three Different Ones) 5. Money 6. Us and Them 7. Smell the Roses 8. Brain Damage 9. Eclipse 10. Roger's Speech / Band Introductions 11. Comfortably Numb
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