release: March 27, 2020
A new comprehensive 33CD box set,
Encore, will bring together remastered versions all of
Donna Summer's 17 studio albums and offer eight bonus discs of rarities and non-album material.
Encore starts at the beginning with
Lady of the Night from 1974 and works its way through the Casablanca era to the eighties, when Donna had spells on Geffen, Mercury and Atlantic. The last album is 2008’s
Crayons. Also included are 1978’s
Live And More, the 1979 compilation
On The Radio and
Live & More Encore! from 1999.
That totals 25 CDs and a further eight discs offer a massive
109 bonus tracks (there are 329 tracks in total). These include seven-inch mixes, 12-inch mixes, non-album rarities and other one-off recordings.
All the music is remastered and the albums are presented in mini-replica CD sleeves with inner wallets (the latter is welcome). These are all housed in a large format lift-off lid box set which comes with a 40-page 12” x 12” hardcover book which features a newly commissioned 25,000 words of sleeve notes by Christian John Wikane. The notes incorporate new interviews with many of Donna’s collaborators, including Giorgio Moroder’s production partner Pete Bellotte (Moroder himself provides a foreword).
Encore is limited to 1500 copies.
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