Phish Confirms ‘The Siket Disc’ Vinyl Release

As we reported, Phish will release a vinyl edition of the 1999 album The Siket Disc via JEMP Records on Friday, December 18. Today, the foursome has confirmed the release and announced a pre- order.

In September the band reissued their first four studio albums – Junta, Lawn Boy, A Picture Of Nectar and Rift – on 180g audiophile grade vinyl. The Siket Disc will also be pressed on 180g vinyl from “lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering.” Here’s the description of The Siket Disc vinyl release:

The Siket Disc contains 35 minutes of almost entirely instrumental, live-in-the- studio improvisation recorded by its namesake, engineer John Siket.

The music was culled by Phish keyboardist Page McConnel [sic] from the Story of The Ghost sessions that took place in 1997 at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York. Highlighting the band’s millennial, sometimes-ambient explorations of the time, The Siket Disc yielded a few songs that have since been incorporated into live shows including “What’s The Use?”, “My Left Toe”, “The Happy Whip and dung Song”, and even the vocoder soundscape of “Quadrophonic Toppling”.

The album was recorded and mixed by Siket, compiled/edited by McConnell, and mastered for vinyl from the digital audio tape flat master by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Each LP is pressed onto 180g audiophile grade vinyl and includes a limited time MP3 download of the album transferred from vinyl.

The Phish pre-order also includes t-shirt bundles.

The Siket Disc Vinyl Track List:

Side A:

1. My Left Toe
2. The Name Is Slick
3. What’s The Use

Side B:

1. Fish Bass
2. Quadrophonic Toppling
3. The Happy Whip and Dung Song
4. Insects
5. Title Track
6. Albert

Recorded March 11-15 and September 29 – October 2, 1997 at Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, NY.