Chick Corea: Candid Records Announces Series of Major Releases

August 4, 2023: Candid Records is announcing today a major drop of Chick Corea-led recordings: the re-release of The Chick Corea Elektric Band’s original five groundbreaking albums - The Elektric Band, Light Years, Eye Of The Beholder, Inside Out, and Beneath The Mask, a previously unreleased live album with the original Elektric Band titled The Future Is Now, and a live recording of Corea performing with Orchestra da Camera della Sardegna in Sardinia, Italy titled Sardinia.

The original five Chick Corea Elektric Band albums are now back and streaming on all platforms HERE. On December 1st, The Complete Studio Recordings 1986-1991, a limited edition 5-LP box will be available. The 10 LP disc box set presents the albums in gatefold jackets, with printed inner sleeves and restored artwork, in a deluxe slipcase. It also includes an envelope of reproduced removable memorabilia from Chick’s private archive. Originally edited and resequenced to fit on single LPs, this limited-edition box set restores all 5 Elektric Band studio albums to their original full running order for the very first time. These albums will also be available as individual CDs.

Also announced today is the live Elektric Band album, The Future Is Now. Compiled by Corea before his passing in February of 2021, this incredible and previously unreleased album of live recordings with the reunited original Elektric Band was captured during tour stops in 2016 and 2017. The 3-disc vinyl LP and 2-disc CD feature in-depth liner notes from Corea, and all of the Elektric Band members (John Patitucci, Dave Weckl, Eric Marienthal and Frank Gambale). Coming out November 3, the album is available to Pre-Order now. Streaming today is the track “Charged Particles (Live)”.

Pre-Order: The Future Is Now HERE

Listen to "Charged Particles (Live)" HERE