Lost David Bowie Toy Album Coming Later This Year | Entertainment
David Bowie’s lost 2001 album “Toy” will be released later this year.
The late music icon has “revisited and re-examined” his old material for the record – which combined new tracks with new versions of lesser-known tracks from 1964 to 1971 – and the collection will be released on November 26, alongside other posthumous releases.
Mark Plati – who co-produced the album – described the record as “a moment captured in an amber of joy, fire and energy”.
He said: “It’s the sound of people happy to play music.
“David revisited and reexamined his work of previous decades through prisms of experience and a new perspective – a parallel that has not been lost to me as I now revisit it 20 years later.
“Every now and then he used to say, ‘Mark, this is our album’ – I think because he knew I was so deep in the trenches with him on this trip. finally being able to say it now is up to all of us. “
The collection – which includes revisited gems like “Liza Jane”, as well as “You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving” and “Silly Boy Blue” – was recorded “old school” in Manhattan in 2000, with musicians performing in direct.
Bowie discussed the unreleased album in 2001.
He explained, “The songs are so vivid and colorful, they jump out of the speakers. It’s really hard to believe they were written so long ago.”
The collection will be released as part of the new set “David Bowie 5: Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001)”, which also includes remasters of “Black Tie White Noise”, “The Buddha of Suburbia”, “Outside”, “Earthling ‘ and ‘Hours’, plus the live album ‘BBC Radio Theater, London, June 27 2000’ and the rarities compilation ‘Re: Call 5’.
There will also be an expanded edition released on January 7, 2022, which ends with a song consisting of a jam at the end of a live version of “I Dig Everythingâ€.
In addition, the package will include never-before-seen shots taken by Frank Ockenfels, as well as alternative mixes and never-before-seen B-sides.