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Multi-platinum selling prog supergroup Asia will release a triple vinyl set of the band’s 2007 live album Fantasia: Live in Tokyo 2007 through BMG Records on February 24. it’s the first time the set, which was originally released through Eagle Records in June 2007, has been made available on vinyl.
Fantasia: Live in Tokyo 2007 was recorded on the band’s original line-up reunion tour to celebrate Asia’s 25th anniversary. The original line-up of Geoff Downes, Steve Howe, Carl Palmer and John Wetton reunited in 2006, after Downes severed ties with John Payne, which whom he’d been running Asia with since 1992’s Aqua.
The original line-up announced their reunion and headed out on tour in America in late 2006, reaching Japan in 2007, where they recorded their show at Tokyo’s Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan venue on March 8.
The setlist focuses on their globally successful 1982 debut album Asia and second LP Alpha, and includes one song each of the members’ previous bands – Buggles’ Video Killed The Radio Star, Yes’s Roundabout, ELP’s Fanfare For The Common Man and King Crimson’s The Court Of The Crimson King.
The reformed line-up went on to record three studio albums together, Phoenix (2008), Omega (2010) and XXX (2012) before Howe quit once more. He was replaced by young UK guitarist Sam Coulson on 2014’s Gravitas.
Wetton sadly succumbed to cancer in 2017. The band toured in 2018 with Yes bassist Billy Sherwood in the Wetton role and Sons Of Apollo‘s Ron ‘Bumbelfoot’ Thal on guitar. He has since been replaced by former Keith Emerson guitarist Marc Bonilla.
Pre-order Fantasia: Live in Tokyo 2007.
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- Asia - Astra - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £8.00, $9.60, €8.96 (New Item) (arrived 24-Jan-2023 13:03)on February 8, 2023 at 7:18 pm
ASIA Astra (1985 UK 10-track LP, glossy picture sleeve with lyric insert. The sleeve has a slight sticker mark in the top right corner with light scuffing to edges and the vinyl shows only a few signs of play GEF26413)
- Asia - Heat Of The Moment - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $9.60, €8.96 (New Item) (arrived 27-Sep-2022 09:09)on February 8, 2023 at 7:18 pm
ASIA Heat Of The Moment (1982 UK 7" vinyl single, also including Time Again, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some light ringwear, whilst the vinyl looks barely played GEFA2494)
- Asia - Omega - 1st - Italian - CD album - £14.99, $17.99, €16.79 (New Item) (arrived 24-May-2022 14:44)on February 8, 2023 at 7:18 pm
ASIA Omega (Original 2010 Italian first pressing 12-track CD album, the eleventh studio release by British rock supergroup including the bonus recording 'Emily'. The disc comes issued in the glossy hype-stickered digipak picture sleeve complete with the picture / lyric booklet)
- Asia - Asia - Band Member Sticker - Dutch - vinyl LP - £20.00, $24.00, €22.40 (New Item) (arrived 17-Jun-2022 11:37)on February 8, 2023 at 7:18 pm
ASIA Asia (1982 Dutch 9-track vinyl LP, the band's eponymous debut, which hit the top of the US Billboard Chart upon its release & was the best-selling album in the US for the year, picture sleeve with band member names sticker on the front plus credits inner. The sleeve has some minor edgewear whilst the vinyl remains in excellent condition with only light play evident GEF85577)
- Asia - Don't Cry - A Label - UK - 7" vinyl - Promo - £15.00, $18.00, €16.80 (New Item) (arrived 18-Jul-2022 14:30)on February 8, 2023 at 7:18 pm
ASIA Don't Cry (1983 UK 'A' label promotional solid centre vinyl 7" for the single release, also including True Colours, within a commercial release paper picture sleeve. The sleeve displays some light wear and the vinyl has only light signs of play A3580)
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