Wind & Wuthering re-released

Genesis' 1976 Wind & Wuthering album gets a re-release this month:

With the May 15 release of 'Genesis: 1976-1982,' Rhino Records debuts the first in a series of three box sets spotlighting 13 studio albums by one of the top-selling recording artists of all time. This 6-CD/6-DVD boxed set encompasses five studio albums recorded between 1976 and 1982, plus a bonus disc offered exclusively with this collection that gathers essential rare tracks scattered among the band's EPs and b-sides. (...)

Inspired by Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Genesis titled their next album Wind & Wuthering (1976). The album veers from the progressive complexities of "One For The Vine" and "Eleventh Earl of Mar" to the accessibility of the Rutherford-penned single, "Your Own Special Way." The DVD features video "bootlegs" of the band's 1977 U.S. and Japanese television appearances. (Starpulse)

The wikipedia article gives more information on the Wuthering Heights inspiration behind the title of the album and some of the tracks:

The album's title derives itself from two pieces: The "Wind" comes from "The House of the Four Winds", the title given by Hackett to a piece that later became the quiet bridge for "Eleventh Earl of Mar"; the "Wuthering" alludes to the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The titles of tracks 7 and 8 are derived from the novel's closing sentence: "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

7."Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." (Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford) – 2:23
8. "...In That Quiet Earth" (Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford) – 4:50

About these tracks we read on Ground and Sky:

The centerpiece of the album, though, is a two-part instrumental, with titles drawn from the last words of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, appropriately enough. The darkened "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers...," written by Hackett and Rutherford, sounds fully orchestral in scope, and explodes into the seraphic, group-composed "...In That Quiet Earth," an intense instrumental that proves to be one of the band's most resplendent moments. (Joe McGlinchey)

Categories: Music, Wuthering Heights