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Numbered Limited Edition 180g 45RPM 2LP from Mobile Fidelity!
Mastered from 1/4" / 15 IPS Analog Master to DSD 256!
Multi-Platinum 1976 Record Made With Members of Celebrated Rolling Thunder Revue, as well as Emmylou Harris
Go-for-Broke Sonics: Mastered from 1/4" / 15 IPS Analog Master to DSD 256, Mobile Fidelity Reissue Spotlights Live, Raw Sound of First-Take Arrangements
Effort Balances Epic Storytelling and DylanÂ’s Heartbreak Over Failing Marriage
Includes Timeless and Tireless Songs “Sara,” “Hurricane,” and “One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)”
Bob Dylan cut Desire flanked by more than a dozen musicians, aided by a producer averse to multitracking, and bent on tequila. Reeling from the effects of his disintegrating marriage, the singer penned several of the most heartfelt songs of his career, including “Sara,” the most overtly public broadcasting of his private life and emotions committed to tape. Straddling lines between haphazard and organized, loose and planned, Desire lives up its title, a masterwork that Dylan would not equal in creativity, performance, and lyricism for another two decades.
Mastered from the 1/4" / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 256 on Mobile Fidelity’s world-renowned mastering system and pressed at RTI, this restored 45RPM analog version lays bare the catch-all ambience of the sessions as well as the unguarded emotionalism that fueled them. Largely captured at one unruly New York studio date, many songs are first-take arrangements, experienced on this reissue in a raw, realistic fashion that allows chords to swell, vocals to naturally carry, and percussion to span a seemingly bridge-wide soundstage. Accenting instruments—bouzouki, accordion, mandolin, violin, congas, piano—gain their own space and color the music with intriguing textures.
Surging with a nothing-to-lose disposition, Desire juggles many styles and owns up to no single theme. Disappointment and loss related to DylanÂ’s broken relationship surfaces directly and metaphorically, but the album isnÂ’t mired in depression or sadness. More often than not, it howls, the sprawling canvas needle pointed with complexity and diversity. In pairing with lyricist Jacques Levy, Dylan invites narrative collaboration he never again repeated, as well as an eclecticism that gives the effort its fascinating charm.
Desire finds Dylan at an evocative peak. With the tour de force single “Hurricane,” he composes his first protest song in years, the enraged verses aimed squarely at maintaining the innocence of boxer Ruben Carter, falsely convicted of murder, as a violin melody swirls in the background. He finds similar inspiration in gangster Joey Gallo, turning “Joey” into a beautiful epic outfitted with Emmylou Harris’ transcendent backing vocals. Flashing a sense of humor, “Mozambique” relishes an irreverent quirkiness that balances the more serious fare.
And in the nakedly biographical “Sara,” Mediterranean-flavored “One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below),” fragile “Oh, Sister,” and swirling fable “Isis,” Dylan develops a series of loosely related songs at once flawless, timeless, and tireless. Rarely has the folk-rock icon addressed love, romance, and loss more openly, eloquently, or universally. It’s no wonder they remain amongst the very favorites of many hardcore Dylan enthusiasts. Don’t miss your chance to experience it in the best fidelity it’s ever enjoyed.
Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• 45rpm Speed Edition
• Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the 1/4" / 15 IPS Analog Master to DSD 256
• Pressed at RTI
Selections:
LP 1 - Side 1:
1. Hurricane
2. Isis
LP 1 - Side 2:
1. Mozambique
2. One More Cup of Coffee
3. Oh, Sister
LP 2 - Side 3:
1. Joey
2. Romance in Durango
LP 2 - Side 4:
1. Black Diamond Bay
2. Sara
Numbered Limited Edition 180g 45RPM 2LP from Mobile Fidelity!
Mastered from 1/4" / 15 IPS Analog Master to DSD 256!
Multi-Platinum 1976 Record Made With Members of Celebrated Rolling Thunder Revue, as well as Emmylou Harris
Go-for-Broke Sonics: Mastered from 1/4" / 15 IPS Analog Master to DSD 256, Mobile Fidelity Reissue Spotlights Live, Raw Sound of First-Take Arrangements
Effort Balances Epic Storytelling and DylanÂ’s Heartbreak Over Failing Marriage
Includes Timeless and Tireless Songs “Sara,” “Hurricane,” and “One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)”
Bob Dylan cut Desire flanked by more than a dozen musicians, aided by a producer averse to multitracking, and bent on tequila. Reeling from the effects of his disintegrating marriage, the singer penned several of the most heartfelt songs of his career, including “Sara,” the most overtly public broadcasting of his private life and emotions committed to tape. Straddling lines between haphazard and organized, loose and planned, Desire lives up its title, a masterwork that Dylan would not equal in creativity, performance, and lyricism for another two decades.
Mastered from the 1/4" / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 256 on Mobile Fidelity’s world-renowned mastering system and pressed at RTI, this restored 45RPM analog version lays bare the catch-all ambience of the sessions as well as the unguarded emotionalism that fueled them. Largely captured at one unruly New York studio date, many songs are first-take arrangements, experienced on this reissue in a raw, realistic fashion that allows chords to swell, vocals to naturally carry, and percussion to span a seemingly bridge-wide soundstage. Accenting instruments—bouzouki, accordion, mandolin, violin, congas, piano—gain their own space and color the music with intriguing textures.
Surging with a nothing-to-lose disposition, Desire juggles many styles and owns up to no single theme. Disappointment and loss related to DylanÂ’s broken relationship surfaces directly and metaphorically, but the album isnÂ’t mired in depression or sadness. More often than not, it howls, the sprawling canvas needle pointed with complexity and diversity. In pairing with lyricist Jacques Levy, Dylan invites narrative collaboration he never again repeated, as well as an eclecticism that gives the effort its fascinating charm.
Desire finds Dylan at an evocative peak. With the tour de force single “Hurricane,” he composes his first protest song in years, the enraged verses aimed squarely at maintaining the innocence of boxer Ruben Carter, falsely convicted of murder, as a violin melody swirls in the background. He finds similar inspiration in gangster Joey Gallo, turning “Joey” into a beautiful epic outfitted with Emmylou Harris’ transcendent backing vocals. Flashing a sense of humor, “Mozambique” relishes an irreverent quirkiness that balances the more serious fare.
And in the nakedly biographical “Sara,” Mediterranean-flavored “One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below),” fragile “Oh, Sister,” and swirling fable “Isis,” Dylan develops a series of loosely related songs at once flawless, timeless, and tireless. Rarely has the folk-rock icon addressed love, romance, and loss more openly, eloquently, or universally. It’s no wonder they remain amongst the very favorites of many hardcore Dylan enthusiasts. Don’t miss your chance to experience it in the best fidelity it’s ever enjoyed.
Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• 45rpm Speed Edition
• Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the 1/4" / 15 IPS Analog Master to DSD 256
• Pressed at RTI
Selections:
LP 1 - Side 1:
1. Hurricane
2. Isis
LP 1 - Side 2:
1. Mozambique
2. One More Cup of Coffee
3. Oh, Sister
LP 2 - Side 3:
1. Joey
2. Romance in Durango
LP 2 - Side 4:
1. Black Diamond Bay
2. Sara
