Fish - Rain Gods With Zippos (The Remasters) (2015)

‘Raingods with Zippos’ was the first album released under licence on Roadrunner Records in April 1999. It was the first of 3 albums to be produced by Elliot Ness at the now renamed ‘Millennium Studios’ and contained a number of songs cowritten with various well-known musicians during a retreat at The Chateau Marouatte in France. These included ‘Incomplete’ with Doug Millet and Elisabeth Troy, who would also sing on the ‘Raingods’ album and perform a duet on the song with Fish. ‘Raingods’ featured the Fish classic ‘Plague of Ghosts’ written with keyboard player Tony Turrell and Mark Daghorn. At nearly 25 minutes long it takes up nearly half of the original album which has now been remastered by Calum Malcolm. The 8000 words of sleeve notes written by Fish contained within the 90 pages of the hardback book, which holds 3 CD’s of music, photos, and Mark Wilkinson artwork, cover the writing and recording sessions in detail. 2 songs co-written and performed with old friend and collaborator Mickey Simmonds and guitar contributions from Steven Wilson make this a unique album.
CD1 is the remastered original album with CD2 containing live, instrumental and demo versions of ‘Plague of Ghosts’. CD3 features live and acoustic versions of songs from the album again all remastered by Calum Malcolm.