Record Store Day 2022 isn't until April 23, but Parlophone is getting a head start with today's announcement of two releases from David Bowie scheduled for release part of the annual event. Parlophone and ISO Records will offer two limited edition titles from the late superstar, both of which are de facto bonus discs to titles issued in 2021. The Brilliant Adventure EP and Toy EP (You've Got It Made with All the Toys) will both be released on vinyl and CD and premiere previously unreleased versions, live tracks, and mixes from the era covered in the recent Brilliant Adventure and Toy: Box collections.
The Brilliant Adventure EP, building off the 1992-2001 Era box set of the same name, offers four previously unreleased cuts: an early version of "I'm Afraid of Americans" called "Johnny Downloader" recorded during the 1. Outside sessions with Brian Eno and mixed in November 1994; an alternative single mix of the album's "I Have Not Been to Oxford Town;" a live version of another Outside track, "A Small Plot of Land;" and a cover of Jacques Brel's "My Death." The latter two tracks were performed by Bowie accompanied by his longtime collaborator/pianist Mike Garson at a fundraiser for the Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival in New York City on September 18, 1995. The EP will be issued on 12-inch vinyl and CD.
The Toy EP (You've Got It Made with All the Toys) offers six tracks related to the once-lost album which found Bowie revisiting his earliest compositions in fresh, new arrangements. These include the previously unreleased Vocal and Piano Mix of "Shadow Man;" live versions of "I Dig Everything" and "The London Boys" recorded on June 19, 2000 at New York's Roseland Ballroom; and three streaming singles making their physical debuts, "You've Got a Habit of Leaving (Radio Edit)," "Silly Boy Blue (Alternative Ending Mix)," and "Can't Help Thinking About Me (Live on the Mark Radcliffe Show, BBC Radio 1)." The Toy EP will be released on 10-inch vinyl and CD.
Look for these David Bowie EPs on Record Store Day, April 23, 2022, and watch this space for more RSD news in the near future.
David Bowie, Brilliant Adventure EP (Parlophone/ISO, 2022) (12-inch vinyl or CD)
- JOHNNY DOWNLOADER (AKA I'M AFRAID OF AMERICANS EARLY VERSION) (David Bowie/Brian Eno)
Produced by David Bowie and Brian Eno/Engineered and mixed by David Richards/Mixed at Westside Studio
David Bowie - vocals, saxophone, guitars and keyboards/Brian Eno - synthesizers, treatments and strategies/David Richards -- samples, drum and keyboard programming
- I HAVE NOT BEEN TO OXFORD TOWN (ALTERNATIVE SINGLE MIX)
Produced by David Bowie and Brian Eno/Co-produced and engineered by David Richards/Recorded at Mountain Studios, Switzerland/Mixed and additional treatments by David Richards, assisted by David Bowie
David Bowie - vocals, saxophone, guitars and keyboards/Brian Eno - synthesizers, treatments and strategies/Reeves Gabrels - lead guitar and vocals/Erdal Kizilcay - bass & keyboards/Mike Garson - grand piano/Sterling Campbell - drums/Carlos Alomar - rhythm guitar and vocals/Joey Barron - drums/Yossi Fine - bass
- A SMALL PLOT OF LAND (LIVE AT THE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 18, 1995)
(David Bowie/Brian Eno/Michael Garson/Sterling Campbell/Erdal Kizilcay/Reeves Gabrels)
Produced by David Bowie/Engineered by Roy Clark and assisted by Tom Miho/Recorded live at the Shakespeare Festival, The Grand Ballroom, The Manhattan Center, New York, 18th September, 1995
David Bowie - vocals/Mike Garson - grand piano
- MY DEATH (LIVE AT THE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 18, 1995)
(Jacques Brel/Eric Blau/Mort Shuman)
Produced by David Bowie/Engineered by Roy Clark and assisted by Tom Miho/Recorded live at the Shakespeare Festival, The Grand Ballroom, The Manhattan Center, New York, 18th September, 1995
David Bowie - vocals/Mike Garson - grand piano
All tracks previously unreleased
David Bowie, Toy EP (You've Got It Made with All the Toys) (Parlophone/ISO, 2022) (10-inch vinyl or CD)
- YOU'VE GOT A HABIT OF LEAVING (RADIO EDIT)
Produced by David Bowie and Mark Plati/Engineered by Pete Keppler/Mixed by Mark Plati/Assisted by Hector Castillo, Steve Mazur, and Todd Parker/Recorded at Sear Sound, The Looking Glass & Alice's Restaurant in New York City, Summer 2000/Mixed at The Looking Glass
David Bowie - lead and backing vocals/Sterling Campbell - drums/Gail Ann Dorsey - bass/Mike Garson - piano and keyboards/Lisa Germano - violin and backing vocals/Emm Gryner - backing vocals/Holly Palmer - backing vocals and percussion/Mark Plati - acoustic and electric guitars/Earl Slick - acoustic and electric guitars
- SHADOW MAN (VOCAL AND PIANO MIX)
Produced by David Bowie and Mark Plati/Engineered by Pete Keppler/Mixed by Mark Plati/Assisted by Hector Castillo, Steve Mazur, and Todd Parker/Recorded at Sear Sound, The Looking Glass and Alice's Restaurant in New York City, Summer 2000/Mixed at Alice's Restaurant
David Bowie - vocal/Mike Garson - piano
- SILLY BOY BLUE (ALTERNATIVE ENDING MIX)
Produced by David Bowie and Mark Plati/Engineered by Pete Keppler/Mixed by Mark Plati/Assisted by Hector Castillo, Steve Mazur, and Todd Parker/Recorded at Sear Sound, The Looking Glass & Alice's Restaurant in New York City, Summer 2000/Mixed at Alice's Restaurant
David Bowie - lead and backing vocals, keyboards and finger cymbals/Sterling Campbell - drums/Gail Ann Dorsey - bass/Mike Garson - piano/Lisa Germano - violin drone and recorder/Emm Gryner - backing vocals/Holly Palmer - backing vocals and finger Cymbals/Mark Plati - acoustic guitars/Earl Slick - electric guitars/Tony Visconti - string arrangement
- CAN'T HELP THINKING ABOUT ME (LIVE RADIO SESSION)
Recorded and broadcast on 25th October, 1999 for the Mark Radcliffe Show at Maida Vale Studio 4/Produced by Will Saunders
David Bowie - vocals/Gail Ann Dorsey - bass and backing vocals/Mark Plati - acoustic & electric guitar/Page Hamilton - electric guitar/Sterling Campbell - drums/Mike Garson - piano and keyboards/Emm Gryner - backing vocals/Holly Palmer - backing vocals
- I DIG EVERYTHING LIVE (LIVE)
- THE LONDON BOYS (LIVE)
Produced by David Bowie/Mixed by Pete Keppler at The Looking Glass/Recorded live at Roseland Ballroom, New York on 19th June, 2000
David Bowie - vocals/Gail Ann Dorsey - bass on 'I Dig Everything', clarinet on 'The London Boys' and backing vocals/Mark Plati - guitars and backing vocals on 'I Dig Everything' and bass on 'The London Boys'/Earl Slick - guitar/Sterling Campbell - drums/Mike Garson - piano and keyboards/Emm Gryner - backing vocals, keyboard and clarinet on 'The London Boys'/Holly Palmer - backing vocals and percussion
Tracks 1, 3, 4 previously unreleased on CD
Tracks 2, 5-6 previously unreleased
A. Vogt says
Finally some respect to the CD format on Record Store Day. Keep 'em coming!