De todas as reedições de Bowie em 2016, este album em particular é especial porque a EMI decidiu reutilizar a mesma masterização da anterior edição do 40º Aniversário, por isso esta é a única reedição 100% analógica do catálogo de David Bowie em produção actualmente, e tem um som fabuloso. A não perder!

Reedição definitiva em vinil pelo produtor da gravação original Ken Scott e remasterização 100% analógica do engenheiro original Ray Staff a partir das Master Tapes Analógicas Originais nos estúdios AIR Mastering de UK. Esta reedição audiófila dá uma nova vida a Ziggy Stardust com resolução e resposta de transientes impressionantes, vasto palco sonoro e larga extensão de frequências.

Isto é o mais perto que vai estar da Master Tape Analógica Original, há transparência e presença neste remaster que nunca tinha estado disponível anteriormente em qualquer formato. Esta é uma das melhores reedições produzidas nos últimos 10 anos, som fabuloso produzido com mestria de acordo com os mais altos standards audiófilos.

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• LP  Vinil 180 Gramas
• Produtor original Ken Scott responsável por esta reedição
• Remasterizado a partir das Master Tapes Analógicas Originais
• Remasterizado pelo engenheiro original da Tridend Ray Staff na AIR Mastering

David Bowie's The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars erased borders, eliminated stereotypes, broke open cultural possibilities, and spawned a legacy like no other. More than four decades after its release, the record remains one of the most electrifying and brilliant works ever released. Again available on 180g vinyl LP, it is here presented in freshly remastered sound that does justice to Bowie, Mick Ronson, and company's creative genius.

Ziggy Stardust is an album written by an aspirant rock star in the guise of a hugely successful one. This nifty deceit has led to it being dubbed the first post-modern pop record. Its songs obtusely referenced aspects of rock history, whilst at the same time tell a story of a future world of extraterrestrial intervention and space-age androgyny. Ziggy Stardust works so well because it's a concept album with the ‘concept' taken out.

"We certainly didn't go into it thinking that the entire album would be a concept album," says producer Ken Scott. "It was a bunch of songs that worked together. Now yes, there is a story for a few of the tracks that hook them together, but, that's it, a few of the tracks." "I think the best thing I did was to leave him so open-ended," Bowie rightly pointed out. "It wasn't a specific story. There were specific incidences within the story, but it wasn't as roundly written as a usual narrative is. The only trouble about copying someone who is really well known is that you know all the facts about them, so you can't actually be that person. But, because Ziggy was kind of an empty vessel, you could put a lot of yourself into being your own version of him."

"Moonage Daydream" is simply stunning, the end-of-song solo by Mick Ronson, which dissolves into spacey, phased high strings, makes it, even more so than "Space Oddity," the definitive space-rock Bowie anthem. "Star," and, most importantly, "Hang On to Yourself" were precursors of punk rock. "Starman" is such a crafty steal from "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" that it was bound to be huge. The title track’s closing salvo, 'Ziggy played guitar' is so famous now that its three words could be Bowie’s tombstone epitaph.

"Suffragette City" became a Bowie classic: its powerhouse of a riff, booming ARP synthesizer, and "Wham Bam Thank You Ma’m!" are still ludicrously thrilling. "Soul Love" and "Lady Stardust" are beautiful little songs and surely two of Bowie’s most underrated. But it’s the astonishing opener and the killer of a closing number that take you into Bowie’s parallel universe. The scene of anarchy on the streets melded with a simple love story that is "Five Years" is surely one of Bowie’s greatest moments. Everything from the heartbeat drum figure which opens the song to the hysteria of the ending works perfectly. And "Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide" is as impassioned a performance as any on the record.

So much of pop music would have been unthinkable, unimaginable, without this record. In pop, you're always best remembered for your initial breakthrough. Bowie's career trajectory through soul, electronica and avant-garde pop is perhaps, in part, an attempt to free himself from this stereotyping circa 1972.

Lista de Faixas:

LP Lado A:
1. Five Years 4:42
2. Soul Love 3:34
3. Moonage Daydream 4:40
4. Starman 4:14
5. It Ain't Easy 2:58

LP Lado B:
1. Lady Stardust 3:22
2. Star 2:47
3. Hang On To Yourself 2:40
4. Ziggy Stardust 3:13
5. Suffragette City 3:25
6. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide 2:58

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