Brilliant Adventure (1992 – 2001) [18LP Box Set], David Bowie, Vinyl

Brilliant Adventure (1992 - 2001)

The latest in an award-winning and critically acclaimed series of box sets including DAVID BOWIE 1. FIVE YEARS (1969 - 1973), DAVID BOWIE 2. WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974 - 1976), DAVID BOWIE 3. A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN (1977 - 1982) and DAVID BOWIE 4. LOVING THE ALIEN (1983-1988), DAVID BOWIE 5. BRILLIANT ADVENTURE (1992 - 2001) is an eleven CD box, eighteen-piece vinyl set and standard digital download box set. The collection is named after the Koto led instrumental penultimate track from the `hours...' album

TOY was recorded following David's triumphant Glastonbury 2000 performance. Bowie entered the studio with his band, Mark Plati, Sterling Campbell, Gail Ann Dorsey, Earl Slick, Mike Garson, Holly Palmer and Emm Gryner, to record new interpretations of songs he'd first recorded from 1964-1971. David planned to record the album `old school' with the band playing live, choose the best takes and then release it as soon as humanly possible in a remarkably prescient manner. Unfortunately, in 2001 the concept of th

Now twenty years after its originally planned release, David's co-producer Mark Plati says, "Toy is like a moment in time captured in an amber of joy, fire and energy. It's the sound of people happy to be playing music. David revisited and re-examined his work from decades prior through prisms of experience and fresh perspective - a parallel not lost on me as I now revisit it twenty years later. From time to time, he used to say `Mark, this is our album' - I think because he knew I was so deeply in the tren

Exclusive to DAVID BOWIE 5. BRILLIANT ADVENTURE (1992 - 2001) box set are BBC RADIO THEATRE, LONDON, JUNE 27, 2000 and RE:CALL 5. The former was recorded two days after the famous Glastonbury performance in front of 500 lucky fans at the BBC's art deco theatre in central London. Selections from the show were available as the third CD in a very limited 3CD edition of BOWIE AT THE BEEB in September 2000 but the full concert has never before been available on vinyl. RE:CALL 5 features 39 non-album / alternativ

The physical box set's accompanying book128 in the vinyl set, will feature rarely seen and previously unpublished photos by photographers including Frank W. Ockenfels 3, Nick Knight, John Scarisbrick and Nina Schultz Terner and others, as well as memorabilia, technical notes about the albums from producers/engineers Brian Eno, Nile Rodgers, Reeves Gabrels and Mark Plati as well as a new an interview with THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA collaborator Erdal Kizilc,ay.

The vinyl box set has the same content as the CD set and is pressed on audiophile quality 180g vinyl.

LP Box Set:

• 84 Page hardback book
• Black Tie White Noise (remastered) (2LP)
• The Buddha Of Suburbia (a very limited release on vinyl previously, remastered) (2LP)
• 1.Outside (remastered) (2LP)
• Earthling (remastered) (3 sided - 2LP)
• `hours...' (remastered) (1LP)
• BBC Radio Theatre, London, June 27, 2000 (remastered and expanded 20 track version, previously unreleased on vinyl) (3LP)*
• Toy (previously unreleased) (3 sided - 2LP)
• Re:Call 5 (non-album singles, edits, single versions, b-sides and soundtrack music) (remastered) (4LP)*

BRILLIANT ADVENTURE (1992-2001)