David Bowie: a new box on the period 2002-2016 is coming
Parlophone Records has announced “David Bowie 6. I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016)”, out of September 12, the sixth of a series of boxes that have retrace Bowie’s career since 1969. The new box is the last chapter of the award -winning and acclaimed series. It is a box of twelve CDs, eighteen vinyls and available for standard digital download/streaming, which takes its name from the closing track of “Blackstar”Bowie’s latest studio album. The boxes include new remastered versions (with the exception of “No Plan”), with the contribution of the Bowie co-producer, Tony Visconti.
“Heathen” of 2002 was the first album on which Bowie and Visconti worked together in twenty -two years. Recorded in a residential study in the state of New York, he reminded Visconti on A period spent with David in Berlin in the 70s: “There was no control room. The console was at one end of the study and the band was positioned at the other end. Lacoustics was quite live and, thanks to my experience of recording of ‘Heroes’ to the Hansa Studios of Berlin, in the enormous Grand Hall (known as Meisversaal recording room), I wanted that acoustics to work for us. ” ‘Reality’, published in 2003Visconti recalls: “David said he wanted to write for his new band on tour, which he would also record the album”, theall giving the disc a more ‘vigorous’ sound, as Bowie called it at the time. The band then put himself on tour for ‘A reality Tour’, one of the most loved tours of David’s career, who is presented here for the first time in a laughed order to better reflect the ladders of the Dublin concerts. The album vinyl version is printed in transparent blue, to remember its initial exit.
After a decade away from the study, the sessions for “The Next Day” took secret; Visconti tells of that period: “We promised ourselves not to tell anyone that David and we were working on a new albumeven involving our partners. His dual purpose was to write and create without external pressure, and also wanted the exit to be a total surprise. Everything went great, except when It was seen a couple of times as he came and came from The Magic Shop study in Noho, Manhattan Once I was stopped by a fan who recognized me and asked me: ‘David Bowie is working on a new album’. I replied: “Absolutely not!”. Later, when we had the raw mixes of our works, I walked for Manhattan with a great smile printed in the face. Nobody could know that I was listening to new Bowie songs with earphones. ” Those sessions produced so many songs that those additional tracks, together with two remixes, were included in “The Next Day Extra”.
“Blackstar”, David’s latest studio album, was released on January 8, 2016. Bowie and Visconti went to the Jazz quartet of Donny McCaslin who played live in New York after working with him on the song “His (or in a Season of Crime)”. Tony Visconti: “Donny’s quartet was not a normal jazz band, they were super musicians At the same level as classic musicians in the best symphonic orchestras. David told me that this band, with Mark Guiliana – drums, Tim Lefebvre – Basso and Jason Lindner – keyboards, will be the band for recording “. Each of the traces of the disc was recorded in one day. The book that accompanies the physical boxes, of 128 pages for the CD and 84 for vinyl, presents unpublished notes, drawings and manuscript texts of Bowie And photo of Sukita (who took the cover photo of the box), Jimmy King, Frank W. Ocenfels 3, Markus Klinko, Mark “Blamo” Adams and others, as well as memorabilia, technical notes on the co -producer albums Tony Visconti and design notes by Jonathan Barnbrook.
