Out now through Escape Music, The Deccan Traps' debut album has finally been released on vinyl.

Limited to just 300 copies on double gatefold 'Solid Blue' and 'Snowy White' vinyl , this new version also now features the following bonus tracks on Side 4:

1. All You Need 4:45

2. Beautiful (The Salford Session Live) 3:25

3. Live It Up (The Salford Session Live) 6:44 (Bonus Track LP Only)

4. Spellbound (The Salford Session Live) 4:49

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The connection is that Neil Fairclough, the Decan Trapps bassist, plays in the Queen + Adam Lambert band, and it deepens as Brian also plays on their self-titled debut album, appearing on the epic 10-minute closing track ‘Dream Of A Thousand Nights’.

On the collaboration, Neil said:

"Brian plays on Dream of a Thousand Nights. We’d written a track with the working title Nothing Can Stop Me, which was the centrepiece of the whole album. It’s a bit of an epic, just over 10 minutes long. At the peak of the track, there is a fanfare which we had planned to play with layered guitars. We could have gone ahead, but to be honest, it would’ve ended up sounding like we were doing a weak Brian May impersonation. There really is only one person who can pull off that type of stuff and that’s Brian. I am massively fortunate to be in a position to be able to ask him".

"At the end of the UK/European Tour 2022, I asked Brian if he would play on the track. He said yes, and a few months later we sent the stems down to his studio where he recorded his parts. When the guitar tracks were sent back, we were utterly, utterly blown away by what he’d done...it had completely transformed the fanfare section into this massive, epic...well, you know what I’m talking about, he’d absolutely Brian-ed it."

"After the track had its initial mix, Brian was coming back to me with little arrangement ideas and production suggestions...by this point, we’re in dreamland because it just made the song better every time. It was Brian’s suggestion that changed the song title to Dream of a Thousand Nights, which is one of the song’s lyrics."