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Warner Music will release a limited edition box set of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason‘s previously-released solo work on Aug. 31.

Titled “Unattended Luggage,” it’ll include three discs:

• “Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports” (1981);
• “Profiles” (1985); and
• “White of the Eye” (1987)

The box set will be available in CD and LP formats. Each individual album in the box will also be made available as a digital download and through streaming platforms.

This will be the first time in more than 20 years the titles will be available in CD and LP format.

“White of the Eye,” a film soundtrack Mason recorded with Rick Fenn, who also collaborated on “Profiles,” has never been available on CD.

“These recordings hold a very special place for me in my musical life,” Mason says. “‘Fictitious Sports’ developed initially from working with Mike Mantler, Carla Bley, and Robert Wyatt on a couple of their projects, and benefited enormously from a whole crew of great musicians that I was introduced to by them at Grog Kill Studios in Woodstock.

“‘Profiles’ and ‘White of the Eye’ were an extension of working with Rick Fenn on some advertising and short documentary film soundtracks, which then developed into something more,” he adds.

“Listening back after 30 odd years, I’m delighted they are getting the reissue treatment. I’m rather hoping that sales will be sufficient to damage the market in the original rare vinyl versions!”

Mason is a founding member of Pink Floyd and the only member to appear on every Floyd album and at every Floyd show.

Mason on tour

The release of “Unattended Luggage” is timed to coincide with Mason’s tour with Saucerful of Secrets, a band he assembled to perform early Floyd music.

The 5-person group debuted at four small shows in London May 20-24, and will launch a tour of Scandinavia and Europe starting Sept. 2.

Michael Hann (Financial Times) wrote of the May 20 performance, “This was the most extraordinary and joyous show — a reminder of what a peculiar and brilliant band Pink Floyd were.”

Tickets are on sale now at www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com.

Tour schedule

1. Sunday, Sept. 2 – Stockholm, Sweden, Circus
2. Monday, Sept. 3– Copenhagen, Denmark, Forum Black Box
3. Tuesday, Sept. 4 – Rostock, Germany, Moya
4. Thursday, Sept. 6 – Amsterdam, Holland, Carre
5. Saturday, Sept. 8 – Antwerp, Belgium, Stadsschouwburg
6. Sunday, Sept. 9 – Luxembourg, Den Atelier
7. Monday, Sept. 10 – Paris, France, Olympia (On sale at a later date)
8. Tuesday, Sept. 11 – Dusseldorf, Germany, Mitsubishi Elektrikhalle
9. Thursday, Sept. 13 – Hamburg, Germany, Laeiszhalle
10. Saturday, Sept. 15 – Stuttgart, Germany, Beethovensaal
11. Sunday, Sept. 16 – Berlin, Germany, Tempodrom
12. Monday, Sept. 17 – Lepzeig, Germany, Haus Auensee
13. Wednesday, Sept. 19 – Vienna, Austria, Stadhalle F
14. Thursday, Sept. 20 – Milan, Italy, Tetro Arcimboldi
15. Friday, Sept. 21 – Zurich, Switzerland, Samsung Hall
16. Sunday, Sept. 23 – Portsmouth, UK, Guildhall
17. Monday, Sept. 24 – London, UK, Roundhouse
18. Tuesday, Sept. 25 – Birmingham, UK, Symphony Hall
19. Thursday, Sept. 27 – Manchester, UK, O2 Apollo
20. Friday, Sept. 28 – Glasgow, UK, SEC Armadillo
21. Saturday, Sept. 29 – Nottingham, UK, Royal Concert Hall

(Photo of Nick Mason by Jill Furmanovsky)