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⚡New/Sealed Phish Rift 2xLP Bitter Blue Colored Vinyl Limited Edition Gatefold ⚡
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Description:
Rift, the band's fourth full-length studio album, is now
available in a new ThinkIndie Exclusive "Bitter Blue" 2-LP vinyl
pressing.
Rift is a concept album based
on one night in a man’s sleep cycle as he dreams about the rift in his
relationship. The album was recorded in September and October 1992 at
White Crow Studios in Burlington, Vermont on 24-track 2" tape by
Engineer Kevin Halpin assisted by Jon Altschiller. It was there that
Gordon Stone added haunting pedal steel guitar to “Fast Enough For You.”
Muscle Shoals Producer Barry Beckett and a team of several Nashville
engineers were brought in for additional sessions and mixing at
Franklin, Tennessee’s historic Castle Recording Studios in late October
and November.
Rift introduced a cohesive
set of complex compositions sequenced to deliver the narrative and
imagery of a fractured romance. Trey Anastasio and Tom Marshall wrote
eleven songs on the album, Mike Gordon contributed two more - “Mound”
and “Weigh”, and Jon Fishman’s “Lengthwise” appeared on the album twice.
Almost all the material was developed live before the album was
recorded – much of it debuted in a few big chunks in 1991 and 1992. The
title track, created in sections between 1987 to 1992, has more
history. The melody grew out of the instrumental “With” section of The
Curtain With, which was performed live from Summer 1987 to Summer 1988.
The nascent lyrics were incorporated almost two years later in 1990 and
“Rift” was played basically in its entirety a half dozen times that
year. “Rift” was then shelved and re-introduced in 1992 (as heard on
the album) with a faster tempo and slightly reworked lyrics. The cover
art was created from an oil on canvas painting by David Welker, who
worked with the band during winter 1992 to depict all but one of the
album's tracks on the cover.
Rift was
mastered by Bob Ludwig and released by Elektra February 2, 1993 on CD
and cassette. The album went on to be certified Gold. In late 2014,
Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering cut the lacquers from the
Digital Audio Tape flat master for the vinyl edition.