{"id":2448363,"date":"2019-09-05T09:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T15:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=880355"},"modified":"2019-09-05T09:39:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T15:39:35","slug":"david-bowie-box-set-collects-early-home-demos-space-oddity-2019-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/david-bowie-box-set-collects-early-home-demos-space-oddity-2019-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bowie Box Set Collects Early Home Demos, \u2018Space Oddity\u2019 2019 Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The early years of David Bowie<\/a>\u2019s career will be the focus of the upcoming five-disc Conversation Piece<\/em><\/a>. The box set collects the singer\u2019s 1968 and 1969 works, from home recordings to his work with guitarist John \u201cHutch\u201d Hutchinson and the mime group Feathers to Space Oddity<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In addition to recently released Mercury Demos<\/em><\/a>, Conversation Piece<\/em>, due out November 15th, features 12 previously unreleased Bowie recordings, ranging from a handful of unheard home demos (\u201cAnimal Farm,\u201d \u201cApril\u2019s Tooth of Gold\u201d) to early mixes of Space Oddity<\/em> songs. The set also promises higher quality versions of tracks from Bowie\u2019s pre-Space Oddity<\/em> Deram Records career.<\/p>\n

The set\u2019s fifth disc boasts producer Tony Visconti\u2019s new 2019 mix of Space Oddity<\/em> that restores the box set\u2019s title track, \u201cConversation Piece,\u201d on the track list; the song was initially removed from Space Oddity<\/em> due to time constraints. The 2019 version of Space Oddity<\/em> will also be sold separately both digitally and on vinyl.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so much fun to find hidden gems of musicianship with more time to mix the second time around, a guitar twiddle here, a trombone blast there, Marc Bolan\u2019s voice in a group choir and more detail in general that we overlooked all those years ago when the label gave us a week at the most to mix this album,\u201d Visconti said of the 2019 mix. \u201cAnd in the details, you will find 22-year-old David Bowie, who would soon take the world by storm.\u201d<\/p>\n

The box set also features a 120-page hardback book with exclusive memorabilia from the personal collection of Bowie\u2019s former manager Ken Pitt, as well as from the David Bowie Archive, plus sleeve notes from Visconti, Hutchinson and more.<\/p>\n

Conversation Piece<\/em> Track List<\/strong><\/p>\n

CD 1 \u2013 Home Demos
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April\u2019s Tooth Of Gold (2.29) *
The Reverend Raymond Brown (Attends the Garden F\u00eate on Thatchwick Green) (2.15) *
When I\u2019m Five (3.18) *
Mother Grey (3.00)
In The Heat Of The Morning (2.59)
Goodbye 3d (Threepenny) Joe (3.19)
Love All Around (2.49)
London Bye, Ta-Ta (3.31)
Angel Angel Grubby Face (version 1) (2.31)
Angel Angel Grubby Face (version 2) (2.37)
Animal Farm (2.21) *
Space Oddity (solo demo fragment) (2.39)
Space Oddity (version 1) with John \u2018Hutch\u2019 Hutchinson (4.02)
Space Oddity (version 2) with John \u2018Hutch\u2019 Hutchinson (5.00) *
Space Oddity (version 3) with John \u2018Hutch\u2019 Hutchinson (5.10)
Lover To The Dawn with John \u2018Hutch\u2019 Hutchinson (3.50)
Ching-a-Ling with John \u2018Hutch\u2019 Hutchinson (2.58)
An Occasional Dream with John \u2018Hutch\u2019 Hutchinson (2.49)
Let Me Sleep Beside You with John \u2018Hutch\u2019 Hutchinson (2.54)
Life Is A Circus with John \u2018Hutch\u2019 Hutchinson (4.50)
Conversation Piece (3.47) *
Jerusalem (4.19) *
Hole In The Ground with George Underwood (3.29) *<\/p>\n

CD2 \u2013 The \u2018Mercury\u2019 Demos with John \u2018Hutch\u2019 Hutchinson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Space Oddity (5.28)
Janine (3.53)
An Occasional Dream (3.18)
Conversation Piece (3.31)
Ching-a-Ling (3.35)
I\u2019m Not Quite (aka Letter To Hermione) (4.00)
Lover To The Dawn (5.01)
Love Song (4.08)
When I\u2019m Five (3.13)
Life Is A Circus (5.33)<\/p>\n

CD3 \u2013 Conversation Pieces (Mono)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In The Heat Of The Morning (Decca mono version) (2.51)
London Bye, Ta-Ta (Decca alternative version) (2.36)
BBC Top Gear radio session with the Tony Visconti Orchestra, recorded 13th May, 1968
In The Heat Of The Morning (3.01)
London Bye, Ta-Ta (2.39)
Karma Man (3.07)
When I\u2019m Five (3.14)
Silly Boy Blue (4.32)
Ching-a-Ling (2.51)
Space Oddity (Morgan Studios version \u2013 alternative take) (4.22)* with John \u2018Hutch\u2019 Hutchinson
Space Oddity (U.K. single edit) (4.42)
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single B-side \u2013 mono mix) (4.54)
Janine (mono mix) (3.23)
Conversation Piece (3.06)
BBC Dave Lee Travis Show radio session, recorded 20th October, 1969
Let Me Sleep Beside You (3.20)
Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed (4.03)
Janine (3.03)<\/p>\n

CD 4 \u2013 1969 stereo mixes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The original David Bowie<\/em> (aka Space Oddity<\/em>) album
Space Oddity (5.14)
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (inc. Don\u2019t Sit Down) (6.51)
Letter To Hermione (2.32)
Cygnet Committee (9.31)
Janine (3.21)
An Occasional Dream (2.54)
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (4.46)
<\/span>God Knows I\u2019m Good (3.17)
<\/span>Memory Of A Free Festival (7.09)
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single B-side stereo mix) (4.56)
Letter To Hermione (early mix) (2.32) *
Janine (early mix) (3.23) *
An Occasional Dream (early mix) (2.54) *
Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (full length version) (5.14)<\/p>\n

CD 5 \u2013 2019 mixes (all previously unreleased)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Space Oddity<\/em> album
Space Oddity (5.20)
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (6.18)
Letter To Hermione (2.32)
Cygnet Committee (9.28)
<\/span>Janine (3.21)
An Occasional Dream (2.57)
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (4.50)
Conversation Piece (3.11)
God Knows I\u2019m Good (3.16)
Memory Of A Free Festival (7.14)
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single version) (4.59)
Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (5.20)<\/p>\n

* previously unreleased<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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