Ci saranno dei contenuti inediti nel nuovo box-set dedicato al compianto David Bowie: tutti i dettagli di ‘David Bowie Conversation Piece’ sono stati svelati nella serata di ieri, ed a quanto pare sarà una pubblicazione imperdibile per tutti i fan più affezionati del Duca Bianco.
La raccolta, che uscirà entro la fine dell’anno, ripercorre il percorso dell’artista negli anni 1968 e 1969, riunendo – per la prima volta – delle nuove demo, delle sessioni live registrati alla BBC Radio e delle registrazioni in studio con John “Hutch” Hutchinson.
‘David Bowie Conversation Piece’ conterrà anche 12 tracce e demo mai pubblicate prima, così come un nuovo mix del disco ‘David Bowie (aka Space Oddity)’ a cura del suo amico e collaboratore di sempre Tony Visconti.
A completare il box set anche un libro di ben 120 pagine che raccoglie memorabilia fornite da Ken Pitt, manager di Bowie, e dall’Archivio di Bowie.
Il nuovo mix di ‘Space Oddity’ sarà disponibile anche separatamente dal box set, in formato cd oppure vinile (le pubblicazioni, in questo caso, saranno limitate).
‘David Bowie Conversation Piece’ sarà pubblicato il prossimo 15 Novembre, questa la tracklist (le tracce contrassegnate con * non sono mai state pubblicate):
CD 1 – Home Demos
‘April’s Tooth Of Gold’ *
‘The Reverend Raymond Brown (Attends the Garden Fête on Thatchwick Green)’ *
‘When I’m Five’ *
‘Mother Grey’
‘In The Heat Of The Morning’
‘Goodbye 3d (Threepenny) Joe’
‘Love All Around’
‘London Bye, Ta-Ta’
‘Angel Angel Grubby Face (version 1)’
‘Angel Angel Grubby Face (version 2)’
‘Animal Farm’*
‘Space Oddity (solo demo fragment)’
‘Space Oddity (version 1)’ with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
‘Space Oddity (version 2)’ with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson *
‘Space Oddity (version 3)’ with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
‘Lover To The Dawn’ with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
‘Ching-a-Ling’ with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
‘An Occasional Dream’ with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
‘Let Me Sleep Beside You’ with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
‘Life Is A Circus’ with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
‘Conversation Piece’ *
‘Jerusalem’ *
‘Hole In The Ground’ with George Underwood *
CD2 – The ‘Mercury’ Demos (with John Hutchinson)
‘Space Oddity’
‘Janine’
‘An Occasional Dream’
‘Conversation Piece’
‘Ching-a-Ling’
‘I’m Not Quite (aka Letter To Hermione)’
‘Lover To The Dawn’
‘Love Song’
‘When I’m Five’
‘Life Is A Circus’
CD3 – Conversation Pieces (Mono)
‘In The Heat Of The Morning (Decca mono version)’
‘London Bye, Ta-Ta (Decca alternative version)’
BBC Top Gear radio session with the Tony Visconti Orchestra, recorded 13th May, 1968
‘In The Heat Of The Morning’
‘London Bye, Ta-Ta’
‘Karma Man’
‘When I’m Five’
‘Silly Boy Blue’
‘Ching-a-Ling’
‘Space Oddity (Morgan Studios version – alternative take)’ * with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
‘Space Oddity (U.K. single edit)’
‘Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single B-side – mono mix)’
‘Janine (mono mix)’
‘Conversation Piece’
BBC Dave Lee Travis Show radio session, recorded 20th October, 1969
‘Let Me Sleep Beside You’
‘Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed’
‘Janine’
CD 4 – 1969 stereo mixes
The original David Bowie (aka Space Oddity) album
‘Space Oddity’
‘Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (inc. Don’t Sit Down)’
‘Letter To Hermione’
‘Cygnet Committee’
‘Janine’
‘An Occasional Dream’
‘Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud’
‘God Knows I’m Good’
‘Memory Of A Free Festival’
The Extras
‘Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single B-side stereo mix)’
‘Letter To Hermione (early mix)’ *
‘Janine (early mix)’ *
‘An Occasional Dream (early mix)’ *
‘Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (full length version)’
CD 5 – 2019 mixes (all previously unreleased)
The Space Oddity album
‘Space Oddity’
‘Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed’
‘Letter To Hermione’
‘Cygnet Committee’
‘Janine’
‘An Occasional Dream’
‘Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud’
‘Conversation Piece’
‘God Knows I’m Good’
‘Memory Of A Free Festival’
The Extras
‘Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single version)’
‘Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola’
