30 years from in utero, third and final studio album from the american group Nirvanawill be launched at the end of October a special deluxe edition with a remastering of his 12 songs together with two complete concerts performed in Los Angeles and Seattle and a compendium of 53 bonus tracks, recordings and other material hitherto unpublished.
As reported by the specialized site Varietyveteran producer and sound engineer Jack Endino, who was behind the band’s debut, bleach (1989), is in charge of reconstructing the live tapes for the project that commemorates the album that in 1993 would become the unexpected goodbye of the group made up of Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain, who eight months later, at the age of 27, was found dead in his home from a shot to the head.
In addition, the original songs of in utero, as well as the extra cuts and B-sides of the album, will be worked on at the Chicago Mastering Services company by Bob Weston, the only other engineer to be present in the studio during the recording sessions supervised by Steve Albini, whom the trio specially went looking for to get a more complex and less polished sound than the one they had proposed in never mind (1991), the album that brought them to international and definitive fame.
As a result, the anniversary release will be a package of 8 vinyl records which will contain not only the remastered version but also two discs with records from the tour, one with the Los Angeles concert in December 1993 and another with the Seattle in January 1994, as well as an album with bonus tracks obtained in different live and radio presentations in Springfield, New York and Rome; with a total of 72 cuts, 53 of them never before published.
After its arrival at record stores, in uterothat it was recorded in just over two weeks at Pachyderm studios in Minnesota, it became a great commercial and critical success, which highlighted the raw and unconventional sound of its songs and the lyrical composition of Cobain, who at that time was already suffering from a depressive picture and substance abuse such as heroin.
The album was placed for a few weeks at the top of the US Billboard 200 ranking, with singles like «Heart-Shaped Box» and «All Apologies» reaching the top of the alternative music charts, and was certified five times Platinum, with 15 million copies sold worldwide.