Guitar maestro Uli Jon Roth is set to release a double-disc collection of 19 re-imagined Scorpions classics called Scorpions Revisited via UDR. Pre-orders for the album will be available soon. Uli Jon Roth was a member of Scorpions and in 2013, he found himself intrigued by the memory of those early days which began 40 years ago, and specifically by the music he helped write, perform and occasionally sing on the albums Fly To The Rainbow, In Trance, Virgin Killer and Taken By Force. It lead to Roth deciding to spend a year re-visiting, exploring, performing and re-recording his favorite Scorpions songs.

The first results of this mystical journey into his own past can be heard on Uli Jon Roth's Scorpions Revisited, a double-disc CD recorded in Hanover, Germany which sees the maestro re-harness all the collective power and poise of those original Scorpions classics, and re-imagine them as he feels today.




Tracklist:
CD1
01. The Sails Of Charon
02. Longing For Fire
03. Crying Days
04. Virgin Killer
05. In Trance
06. Sun In My Hand
07. Yellow Raven
08. Polar Nights
09. Dark Lady

CD2
01. Catch Your Train
02. Evening Wind
03. All Night Long
04. We'll Burn In The Sky
05. Pictured Life
06. Hell Cat
07. Life's Like A River
08. Drifting Sun
09. Rainbow Dream Prelude
10. Fly To The Rainbow

"The material for this double CD was recorded last year in the same hall in Hanover that we used for the Scorpions rehearsals 1973-1978," explains Roth. "Together with an amazing bunch of very talented young musicians, I revisited my personal favourites from the early Scorpions period, some of which were written in that same hall. It was an emotional few days and I am very pleased with the results in more ways than one. The idea was to stay truthful to the original spirit of the music, while also putting a new slant on it whenever it felt like the right thing to do. I feel we really succeeded in this and I'm very excited about this project. It was a intense journey into the past and I think we really managed to bring the songs back to life with a vengeance."

This is the first fruit from a re-engagement with his history that left Uli Jon Roth enjoying a surge of fresh creativity and approach to this classic material. Expect a further announcement for 2015.

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Uli Jon Roth