Boomslang (2024 Deluxe Edition - Remastered) Johnny Marr & The Healers

• 1 The Last Ride (2024 Remaster) 04:29
• 2 Caught Up (2024 Remaster) 04:27
• 3 Down on the Corner (2024 Remaster) 04:24
• 4 Need It (2024 Remaster) 05:47
• 5 You Are the Magic (2024 Remaster) 07:09
• 6 InBetweens (Zak Starkey) (2024 Remaster) (Zak Starkey; 2024 Remaster) 03:39
• 7 Another Day (2024 Remaster) 04:58
• 8 Headland (2024 Remaster) 01:34
• 9 Long Gone (2024 Remaster) 04:38
• 10 Something to Shout About (2024 Remaster) 04:21
• 11 Bangin' On (2024 Remaster) 05:09
• 12 The Way That It Was 05:29
• 13 All Out Attack 04:42
• 14 Get Me Wrong 05:24
• 15 Don't Think Twice, It's Alright 04:27
• 16 A Woman Like You 05:08
• 17 You Are the Magic (Union Mix) 08:49
• 18 Get Me Wrong (Instrumental Version) 05:20
• Total Runtime 01:29:54

Info for Boomslang (2024 Deluxe Edition - Remastered)

Boomslang wurde 2003 veröffentlicht und war das erste Solo-Studioalbum von Johnny Marr. Nach seinem Ausstieg bei The Smiths im Jahr 1987 verbrachte Marr einige Jahre mit Bands wie The Pretenders, bevor er im Jahr 2000 mit Zak Starkey (Schlagzeug), Alonza Bevan (Bass) und anderen die Band The Healers gründete. Boomslang wurde in den Clear Studios in Manchester mit James Spencer (New Order, The Charlatans) aufgenommen und besteht aus elf Tracks, die sein typisches Gitarrenspiel mit schweren psychedelischen Rhythmen kombinieren. „Zwanzig Jahre später bin ich froh, dass wir die Musik geschaffen haben, und diese Neuauflage von Boomslang gibt mir die Möglichkeit, sie wieder aufzugreifen und einige Songs zu präsentieren, die wir beim ersten Mal nicht aufnehmen konnten.“ Boomslang wurde noch nie auf Vinyl veröffentlicht.

Das Album wurde in Abbey Road komplett neu gemastert und enthält 7 Raritäten, die von Johnny ausgewählt wurden.

Johnny Marr + The Healers:
Johnny Marr, Gesang, Gitarre; Synthesizer (Tracks 1, 10, 11); Orgel (Track 6); Melodica (Track 10); Produzent
Alonza Bevan, Bass; E-Piano, Blockflöte, Hintergrundgesang (Track 7)
Zak Starkey, Schlagzeug; Percussion (Tracks 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11)
Zusätzliches Personal:
Lee Spencer, Synthesizer (Tracks 1, 4, 5, 11), Effekte (Track 11)
Liz Bonney, Percussion (Tracks 4, 5, 11)
Jonni Musgrave, Klavier (Track 3)
Dave Tolan, Percussion (Track 7)
Damien Foster, Hintergrundgesang (Track 5)
Denise Johnson, Hintergrundgesang (Track 5)

Digital remastered

Zur Info: wir bieten dieses Album in der nativen Abtastrate von 48 kHz, 24-Bit an. Die uns zur Verfügung gestellte 96 kHz-Version wurde hochgerechnet und bietet keinen hörbaren Mehrwert!

Johnny Marr
At the beginning of 2023, Johnny Marr had all sorts of plans, but marking anniversaries hadn’t figured among them. Fresh from a succession of rapturously received shows with The Killers, Johnny had already started to gather songs for his fifth album – a successor to 2022’s acclaimed double LP Fever Dreams Pts 1-4. It was his manager who pointed out that he had now been a solo artist for ten years, a stretch of time comfortably in excess of his tenures in The Smiths, Electronic, The The, The Pretenders, Modest Mouse or The Cribs. And although, Marr’s storied life in music isn’t short of milestones – 2010 Inspiration Award at the Ivor Novellos, an Oscar nomination for his work with Hans Zimmer on Inception; and, lest we forget, an NME Godlike Genius Award in 2013 – he hadn’t stopped to consider that the passing of an entire decade might be significant.

The full measure of this extraordinarily fertile period is captured on Spirit Power: The Best Of Johnny Marr, a major new collection curated by Marr encompassing songs from his four top ten solo albums, a scattering of stand-alone singles and two incendiary new cuts, Somewhere and The Answer. Spirit Power presents a composite portrait of an artist with no less a complete ideology than the celebrated co-travellers who inspired him along the way. It’s a body of work that mirrors Marr’s unquenchable life force, his love of melody and the urge to resist what he calls the “strummy, age-appropriate transition into mid-tempo middle age.” He elaborates: “It’s a conversation I have from time to time with [Pet Shop Boys’] Chris Lowe, about how much harder it is to write songs that you want to listen to in the daytime. It’s easier to do something that’s perceived as cool if it’s a bit moody. But, for me, the mission with these records was to make songs that you could listen to on the way to school, on the way to the gym, on the way back from work – you know, in the way that you had with, say, Blondie.”

The songs that comprise Spirit Power – sequenced non-chronologically, thus giving a flavour of what you might expect if you were at one of his live shows – are an emphatic fulfilment of that pledge. Among the earliest songs included on this collection is sonorous yet yearning uplift of European Me, a song which saw Marr turn the anglepoise on the space that would over time be filled by several more songs, each explaining to their creator something about where he came from and who he had become. “Left home a mystery, leave school for poetry,” he sings on New Town Velocity, “I say goodbye to them and me, mission velocity.

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