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This is really cool. I like this song a lot. I really wish we could get a full english version with out comments over it.
I found a video on youtube with 3 sources of the English version. I found some things in the description interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd4Gwe6EYaU
"The song is heard in three venues complimentary to Return of the Jedi, however: the fictionalized documentary mini-movie “Return of the Ewok”, the behind-the-scenes special “From Star Wars to Jedi”, and in the Return of the Jedi Radio Drama. The latter uses a de-vocalized version of the track, but is also the clearest of the three and points out some slight differences in the instrumentation of “Fancy Man” and “Lapti Nek”.
There is a hard-to-find re-recording of the song done by Joe Williams and his band Urth, which is available in a modified version on the Dylnamic fancut:https://dylnamicmusicincorporated.bandcamp.com/album/max-rebo-band-and-the-band-played-on"
That link doesn’t work though. I have been unable to find it anywhere either.
I was thinking that the highest quality copy is probably from the track Star Wars to Jedi from Laser Disc audio archive. https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-Laser-Disc-Audio-Archive/id/14542
I haven’t been able to find that yet. I was thinking if I started with a high quality source like that and track to process it a bit to see if voice over removal options might be possible. I am not an expert but I am familiar with eliminating vocals from some stereo tracks by inverting the waveform of one channel to cancel the common vocals frequencies. That really all depends on how the channels are mixed though. Maybe combining a few different sources of the English it would be possible to isolate parts for removal. It probably wouldn’t work on the dual mono track used in Star Wars to Jedi.
I saw a copy of the “Lapti Nek Overture from Return Of The Jedi 12” 45 RPM" for $20. It has an instrumental B-Side. I have some nice turntables I could use to record the record. I am not really a audio expect though. Does anyone know how feasible it is to maybe be able to process something like the LD audio and remove the voice over? I wish I could just buy an album with the English version on it.
