Yusuf / Cat Stevens' Saturnight: Live from Tokyo gets the first publication in the USA after 50 years

Yusuf / Cat Stevens'Little known concert album from 1974, Saturnight: Live from Tokyois published for the first time in several formats in the USA in several formats, more than 50 years after it was originally only published in Japan, due to contractual restrictions. The record was removed from the original production champion of the world -famous Abbey Road Studios and will be available on CD, vinyl and digitally for streaming and download May 2nd above Cat-O-Log Records/Ume.

The CD will contain a digisleeve with a 16-page brochure with texts and new retrospective memories of those who were there, including the bassist Bruce Lynch and the band's tour manager, Carl Miller, as well as additional notes. The vinyl will be available on a black vinyl of 140 grams or a limited edition, which is only available via Catstevens.com, Udiscover music and sound from vinyl to 140-gram-lava-splatter vinyl, both packed for the first time in a gatefoly cover. Saturn was published in a superlimited edition as “RSD First” for the last year Black Friday Event of the Record Store Day from exclusively 180 grams of orange splatter color vinyl.

Pre -order Saturnight: Live from Tokyo: https://ycs.lnk.to/saturnightpr

Cat Stevens' first live album, always Saturnwas recorded on June 22nd^nd1974, in the Sun Plaza Hall in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan on the Japanese leg of Cat's 1974 “Bamboozle World Tour”. The tour comprised 50 shows in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan to support the publication of Buddha and the chocolate box. For a long time, Cat had felt an affinity for the aesthetic elegance and spiritual depth of Japanese culture, in particular on the principles of meditation and reflection on which their traditions of poetry, design and craft are founded.

SaturnWhat progresses with a passionate performance of “King of Trees” today Buddha and the chocolate box With Cat at his climax and an incredible concert of songs from this latest album like “Oh very” and “A Bad Penny”, alongside some of his biggest hits that dominated the charts in the early 1970s, they dominated. This includes the classics “Lady d'Arnville” (Mona Bone Jakon – 1970))); “Wild World”, “Where do the children play?” “Hard Headed Woman”, “Father & Son” (Tea for the Tillerman – 1970))); “Friedenszug”, “Bitterblue” (Teaser and the fire cat – 1971); and “sit” (Catch Bull at four – 1972).

Listen to “King of Trees” from Saturnight now: https://ycs.lnk.to/saterurnight

Also included is a soulful cover of Sam Cookes “Another Saturday Night”. Cat and his band were fresh from the recording of the song in a studio in Tokyo with a Japanese brass department – exactly the same version that would later become a hit single this year. The performance on Saturn Starting for the first time that they played live “Another Saturday Night”.

Although Saturn For contractual reasons between A&M and Iceland Records – Cat, which was donated to Unicef, for contractual reasons. He had recently become a Unicef ​​Goodwill ambassador and had visited Ethiopia and Kenya with her help in early 1974. There he saw first -hand, which was caused by drought and famine, but also the remarkable resilience and the nobility of the human mind. Experience moved deeply and had a really permanent influence on his life and career, so that his humanitarian efforts would soon overtake his personal musical ambitions.

As a cat, more of his individual success, to help the needy, he would finally leave the music industry as a whole. He devoted himself to the charity and interest representation work and would use the status and rewards that music had brought him to the service of equality and a just world. In many ways Saturn is a significant early step on this incredible journey.

Saturnight: Live from Tokyo Track list

VINYL
Page I
1. Wildwelt
2. Oh very young
3. Sit
4. Where do the children play?
5. Lady d'Arnville
6. Another Saturday evening (Sam Cooke)

Page II
1. Hard -headed woman
2. Peace train
3. Father and son
4. King of Brees
5. A bad cent
6. Bitterblue

CD / digital
1. Wildwelt
2. Oh very young
3. Sit
4. Where do the children play?
5. Lady d'Arnville
6. Another Saturday evening (Sam Cooke)
7. Hard -headed woman
8. Peace train
9. Father and son
10. King of the trees
11. A bad penny
12. Bitterblue