Ocean Rain (Remastered) Echo & The Bunnymen
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Album-Release:
1984
HRA-Release:
25.02.2022
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- 1 Silver 03:19
- 2 Nocturnal Me 04:58
- 3 Crystal Days 02:24
- 4 The Yo Yo Man 03:10
- 5 Thorn of Crowns 04:54
- 6 The Killing Moon 05:46
- 7 Seven Seas 03:19
- 8 My Kingdom 04:06
- 9 Ocean Rain 05:10
Info for Ocean Rain (Remastered)
Originally released in May 1984, Ocean Rain itself, features the original album which includes the singles 'The Killing Moon', 'Silver' and 'Seven Seas'. The second LP contains eight bonus tracks, The band wrote most of the songs for Ocean Rain in 1983. Then in early 1984 they started sessions for the album in Les Studio des Dames and Studio Davout in Paris using a 35 piece orchestra, assisted by Adam Peters for string arrangements and Henri Lonstan at des Dames as engineer. Other sessions took place back in the UK in Bath and Liverpool. McCulloch in fact re-recorded most of his vocals back in Amazon Studio's in Liverpool as he was unhappy with the Paris sessions. Continuing the bands prominent use of strings which were used so successfully on 'Back Of Love' on Porcupine, The album actually received a mixed response on release, but time has proved a great healer and the wider perspective is that the album is indeed the band's unrivalled pinnacle. Martyn Atkins again designed the cover with Brian Griffin the photographer. With the band wanting continue the elemental theme of the previous three albums, the shot used for the front cover is a picture of them in a rowing boat which was taken inside Carnglaze Caverns, Liskeard in Cornwall.
It was marketed as “the greatest album ever made.” It combined the powers of a member of the first wave of post-punk bands with the grandeur of a 35-piece orchestra, a move reminiscent of the evolution of the pioneers of 1950s rock ‘n’ roll. It mixed surreal poetry with Eastern-influenced guitar lines, symphonic majesty with abrasive pop song structures, all while remaining a cohesive, disturbing and beautiful album. It is Ocean Rain, first released by Liverpool rockers Echo & the Bunnymen in 1984, and it remains both the band’s highest peak and breaking point.
"Channeling the lessons of the experimental Porcupine into more conventional and simple structural parameters, Ocean Rain emerges as Echo & the Bunnymen's most beautiful and memorable effort. Ornamenting Ian McCulloch's most consistently strong collection of songs to date with subdued guitar textures, sweeping string arrangements, and hauntingly evocative production, the album is dramatic and majestic; "The Killing Moon," Ocean Rain's emotional centerpiece, remains the group's unrivalled pinnacle." (Jason Ankeny, AMG)
Ian McCulloch, Gesang
Will Sergeant, Gitarre
Les Pattinson, Bass
Pete de Freitas, Schlagzeug
Digitally remastered
Echo & The Bunnymen
eine der einflussreichsten Bands der späten 70er und frühen 80er Jahre, die maßgeblich den Sound der New Wave / Post Punk Zeit mitgeprägt haben, kommen für ein exklusives Konzert am 31. Oktober nach Berlin.
An diesem Abend werden die beiden Urmitglieder, Sänger/Gitarrist Ian McCulloch und Gitarrist Will Sergeant, von einer String Section unterstützt um ihre psychdelischenNew Wave und Pop- Hymnen in ein ganz besonderes Gewand zu hüllen.
Seit nunmehr fast 40 Jahren sind die Liverpooler aktiv und haben sich seit den eher düsteren ersten Jahren mit schrägen Texten über Drogenexzesse und die damit verbundene Reue, gepaart mit schwarzen Klamotten und Turmfrisuren zu einem eher von Burt Bacharach Arrangements beeinflusste Popband gemausert, die auch weiterhin ihren ganz eigen Weg gehen wird.
Die kürzlich beendete UK Tour führte die Band unter anderem in legendäre Konzerthallen wie die Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Birmingham`s Symphony Hall und endete in der legendären Royal Albert Hall in London.
Das neue Album, „The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon“wurde gerade fertiggestellt und erscheint via BMG am 05. Oktober. Es enthält 13 Bunnymen Classic, die mit „Strings and Things“ neu aufgenommen wurden. Zudem bekommt man noch zwei brandneue Songs „The Sonambulist“ und „HowFar?“dargeboten. Aufgenommen wurde im The Dog House Studios mit Co-Produzent Andy Wright. Mac sagt zu den neuen Aufnahmen: „Ich mache das für niemand anderes als für mich. Ich mache das weil es mir wichtig ist die Songs noch besser zu machen. Ich muss das tun.“
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