Bob Dylan: Tempest (180g) auf 2 LPs und 1 CD

Die neue LP von Bob Dylan soll im September erscheinen. 50 Jahre nach seinem Debüt-Album "Bob Dylan" wird „Tempest“ mit 10 neuen Songs das 35. Studioalbum des Meisters sein.

Dylans vorherige vier Alben gelten allgemein als vier der besten seiner Karriere. „Time Out Of Mind” (1997), “Love And Theft” (2001), “Modern Times” (2006) und “Together Through Life” (2009) waren Lieblinge der Kritik und gehören zu den Bestsellern in der an Höhepunkten reichen Karriere des Künstlers.

Unter dem Pseudonym Jack Frost hat Dylan die Platte selbst produziert. Das Titelstück „Tempest“ soll laut „Rolling Stone“ ein 14-minütiger Song über den Untergang der Titanic sein, der Song „Roll On John“ ist John Lennon gewidmet.

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Columbia Records announced today that Bob Dylan’s new studio album, Tempest, will be released in September. Featuring ten new and original Bob Dylan songs, the release of Tempest coincides with the 50th Anniversary of the artist’s eponymous debut album, which was released by Columbia in 1962.

Tempest is available for pre-order now on iTunes and Amazon. The new album, produced by Jack Frost, is the 35thth studio set from Bob Dylan, and follows 2009’s worldwide best-seller, Together Through Life.

Bob Dylan’s four previous studio albums have been universally hailed as among the best of his storied career, achieving new levels of commercial success and critical acclaim for the artist. The Platinum-selling Time Out Of Mind from 1997 earned multiple Grammy Awards, including Album Of The Year, while “Love and Theft” continued Dylan’s Platinum streak and earned several Grammy nominations and a statue for Best Contemporary Folk album.

Modern Times, released in 2006, became one of the artist’s most popular albums, selling more than 2.5 million copies worldwide and earning Dylan two more Grammys. Together Through Life became the artist’s first album to debut at #1 in both the U. S. and the UK, as well as in five other countries, on its way to surpassing sales of one million copies.

Those four releases fell within a 12-year creative span that also included the recording of an Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning composition, “Things Have Changed,” from the film Wonder Boys, in 2001; a worldwide best-selling memoir, Chronicles Vol. 1, which spent 19 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List, in 2004, and a Martin Scorsese-directed documentary, No Direction Home, in 2005. Bob Dylan also released his first collection of holiday standards, Christmas In The Heart, in 2009, with all of the artist’s royalties from that album being donated to hunger charities around the world.

This year, Bob Dylan was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. He was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” He was also the recipient of the French Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1990, Sweden’s Polar Music Award in 2000 and several Doctorates including the University of St. Andrews and Princeton University as well as numerous other honors.

(bobdylan. com)

Rezensionen

,,Unheilschwangere Visionen, teils ungestüme Musik: Bob Dylan bleibt auch im sechsten Jahrzehnt seines Schaffens schwer berechenbar." (Stereo, Oktober 2012)

,,Seine musikalische Zeitreise tendiert auf ,,Tempest" mehr zu Bluegrass, Folk, Jazz und wildert im Revier der Mexicana. (...) Ein wahrhaftig magischer Sog." (Audio, November 2012)

,,Der Altmeister kann es einfach: gespenstisch gut!" (stereoplay, November 2012)

,,Country, Folk, Blues und Gospel aus dem Herzen des alten, unheimlichen Amerika: Dylans 35. Studioalbum ist ein Meisterwerk." (musikexpress, November 2012)