NEW BOB DYLAN STUDIO ALBUM ‘SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT’ SET FOR RELEASE ON CD, VINYL AND DIGITAL FRIDAY FEBRUARY 6th, 2015
ALBUM SHOWCASES DYLAN’S SINGULAR INTERPRETIVE ARTISTRY AND MARKS HIS FIRST COLLECTION OF NEW MUSIC IN THREE YEARS
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Sony Music Entertainment Australia is proud to announce that Bob Dylan’s new studio album,SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT, will be released on Friday February 6th, 2015. Featuring ten tracks, the Jack Frost produced album is the 36th studio set from Bob Dylan and marks the first new music from the artist since his 2012’s worldwide hit, TEMPEST.
Bob Dylan commented on the release: “It was a real privilege to make this album. I’ve wanted to do something like this for a long time but was never brave enough to approach 30-piece complicated arrangements and refine them down for a 5-piece band. That’s the key to all these performances. We knew these songs extremely well. It was all done live. Maybe one or two takes. No overdubbing. No vocal booths. No headphones. No separate tracking, and, for the most part, mixed as it was recorded. I don’t see myself as covering these songs in any way. They’ve been covered enough. Buried, as a matter a fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing them into the light of day.”
As Columba Records Chairman Rob Stringer explains: “There are no strings, obvious horns, background vocals or other such devices often found on albums that feature standard ballads. Instead, Bob has managed to find a way to infuse these songs with new life and contemporary relevance. It is a brilliant record and we are extremely excited to be presenting it to the world very soon.”
Bob Dylan’s five 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 ARIA Gold certified TIME OUT OF MIND from 1997 earned multiple Grammy Awards, including Album Of The Year, while LOVE AND THEFT 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, surpassing Platinum sales in Australia and selling more than 2.5 million copies worldwide. The album also went on to earn Dylan two more Grammy Awards. TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE became the artist’s first album to debut at #1 in both the U.S. and the UK and went on to sell over one million copies. TEMPEST received unanimous worldwide critical acclaim upon release, while the artist’s globe-spanning concert tours of the past few years have heavily emphasized that album’s singular repertoire.
These five releases fell within a 15-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.
In recent years, Bob Dylan was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honour. 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 Officier de la Legion d’honneur in 2013, Sweden’s Polar Music Award in 2000, Doctorates from the University of St. Andrews and Princeton University, as well as numerous other honours. Bob Dylan has sold more than 125 million records around the world.
‘SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT’ TRACK LISTING:
1. I’m A Fool To Want You
2. The Night We Called It A Day
3. Stay With Me
4. Autumn Leaves
5. Why Try To Change Me Now
6. Some Enchanted Evening
7. Full Moon And Empty Arms
8. Where Are You?
9. What’ll I Do
10. That Lucky Old Sun
