Lou Reed Berlin (Vinyl) 12" Album

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Country of Origin
USA
Title
Berlin
EAN
0196588772214
Edition
12" Album
Style
Glam Rock
Release Date
08/30/2024
No Of Discs
1
MPN
LMF1555
UPC
0196588772214
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Product Identifiers

Record Label
Mofy, Mobile Fidelity
UPC
0196588772214
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5071197324

Product Key Features

Release Year
2024
Format
Record
Genre
Rock
Artist
Reed, Lou
Release Title
Berlin

Dimensions

Item Height
0.15 in
Item Weight
0.82 lb
Item Length
12.85 in
Item Width
12.81 in

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Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Number of Discs
1
Notes
An Intense Journey into Toxic Relationships Balanced with Gorgeous Arrangements and Dark Humor: Lou Reed's Conceptual Berlin Features A-List Cast and Bob Ezrin Production Sourced from the Original Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity's 180g 33RPM Vinyl 2LP Presents the Singer-Songwriter's Landmark 1973 Album in Audiophile Quality for the First TimeLike the records he made with his first band, Berlin finds Lou Reed decades ahead of the times. Though dismissed upon it's original release in 1973, the former Velvet Underground member's third solo effort ultimately landed on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and remains one of his most lauded works. Addressing mature issues in stark fashion, the rock opera blends autobiographical reality, poetic license, and ambitious arrangements to tell the story of a couple's toxic relationship and it's fallout. Produced by Bob Ezrin and featuring an array of ace musicians, Berlin is an emotionally harrowing and sonically eclectic journey into the many of the worst tendencies of the human condition. Sourced from the original master tapes, housed in a Stoughton jacket, and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g LP of Berlin presents the landmark recording in audiophile quality for the first time. The scope, balance, and reach of Ezrin's explosive production comes to the fore. As does the ample spaciousness and separation that help give the songs breathing room even when the music builds to an orchestral pitch. Reed's distinctive voice - central to every track - sounds direct, immediate, centered. The realism and clarity of his tone make it appear as if he's entered the room. You can trace his breath control, reserved coolness, and commanding phrasing. And sense the implied violence, delusion, and sorrow in the questions and statements he issues in the persona of the protagonist Jim - as well as the empathy, fatigue, confusion, and frustration he projects in his guise as Caroline.Mobile Fidelity's reissue also puts into a new, improved light the brilliant contributions of the standout session players. Steve Winwood (Hammond organ), Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone), Randy Brecker (trumpet), and Procol Harum drummer B.J. Wilson play key roles. The core band assisting Reed and Ezrin on a majority of Berlin - Alice Cooper guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter, drum maven Aynsley Dunbar, Cream bassist Jack Bruce - turn in a collective performance for the ages. None more so than Bruce, whose bass lines resonate on this LP with a roundedness, fatness, tautness, and control that give songs added depth and foundation. Ezrin's restrained piano, full of body and decay, performs a similar function. Expanding on the gritty themes he explored with the Velvet Underground, and arranging them into a conceptual tale, Reed transforms Berlin into a candid report of what was happening behind closed doors everywhere. Deemed by the Chicago Tribune as 'a spare, understated song cycle of nearly suicidal intensity about a crumbling marriage,' it deals head-on with heavyweight topics such as domestic abuse, drug addiction, mental illness, custodial rights, prostitution, and depression. Reed's purple narratives detail issues that would attract mainstream attention many years later - and which continue to spur vital conversations. Akin to a classic film noir or hardboiled novel, Berlin skirts any attempt to varnish it's rough interiors. Functioning as both a contrast and counterweight, the record's beautiful, symphonic-leaning exteriors somehow both heighten and lessen the severity of the vignettes. The theatrical swells of woodwinds, strings, and brass feature the same streaks of black humor that inform Reed's writing. That edginess and eccentricity, and Reed's investment in the album's three characters and situations, function as magnets that draw us in even when the sadness, meanness, and darkness prompt us to look away.Save for the opening romance of the title trac

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