A man from the future2026/New album 2028

[y3potential]

On the blu ray there is No Narration versions of the tracks.

What makes these different from the standard versions and the instrumental?
I have absolutely no idea and I think if we all knew, we would better decide which version of this album we Walt to get.

Thank you.

The "no narration" version on the Blu-ray will still have Neil's vocals, whereas the instrumental version will be without both his vocals AND the narration.

[leesmapman]

Someone on Reddit said to rip the disc with MakeMKV and then use DVD Audio Extractor to rip the individual audio tracks from the .MKV

Does that sound about right?

Correct. I use MakeMKV too. From there you can use a lot of different tools to convert the audio to any format you want. DVD Audio Extractor works perfectly fine.

[oakey]

Has it actually been confirmed anywhere if the Blu-ray contains just stereo audio, or surround sound versions. I don't have a surround system, so not massively worried, but am wondering if I'll need to buy the Blu-ray and the CD if I want to get a stereo versions?

Yes, on the SDE it is stated that it is a Dolby Atmos bluray, which not only means surround but also height channels.

[leesmapman]

The bluray also has stereo (as per the SDE article):

There are three versions of A man from the future:

1 Full version, with Neil singing and Juliet Stevenson’s narration
2 An instrumental version (i.e. no singing or narration)
3 A version without the narration (includes the singing)

The vinyl edition has #1, the 2CD edition has 1 and 2 but only the blu-ray has 1,2 & 3 in Dolby Atmos and 96/24 hi-res stereo.
[edit] oh, I see you quoted that article already I'll leave my post for others to read though

[leesmapman]

8 tracks confirmed, just like the 2014 performance:

1. Natural wonders every child should
2. He dreamed of
3. The Enigma
4. Other ranks
5. The memory and the control
6. The trial
7. Only in his death
8. A man from the future

So no new additional track, or maybe track 8 has been expanded?

[Fantaroux]

It should be quite similar...

[before]

It should be quite similar...

There'll be different orchestrations and updated narration. We've only ever experienced a live recording so I'm hoping this studio version will sound much better overall.

[Fantaroux]

I hope too.

[Rorie]

It should be quite similar...

There'll be different orchestrations and updated narration. We've only ever experienced a live recording so I'm hoping this studio version will sound much better overall.

Yes, even in the 32 second promo you can hear that at least in that snippet the orchestra seems a little more up tempo, busy.

I for one am happy to see this getting a proper release, so that anyone that likes this project can go true instrumental, no narrative PSB album, or the narrative. I was really hoping for the instrumental to be released as some of the tracks are gorgeous.

[Rorie]

I ended up ordering from the Warner site in Canada. And I had not bought Disco 5 yet so ordered that finally, as well as the 2 X CD, and the Bluray.

I am at a stage in life where I have too much stuff. So slowing down on needing to have everything, every format.

[Sandy Shaw]

At some point after the release - maybe next spring now I shall lay in the same fields as Turing did and listen to this...

[Xakrij]

At some point after the release - maybe next spring now I shall lay in the same fields as Turing did and listen to this...

This is so lovely!
I am literally crying over how moving this will be for you!

Thank you for posting!