Reprise (Deluxe Edition) ［CD+Blu-ray Audio］

アメリカのスーパースターと豪華ゲストのヒット・アルバムにBDをセット
《モービー～リプライズ(BD付きデラックス・エディション)》

モービーはアメリカ・コネチカット州出身のミュージシャン。作詞、作曲、演奏、編集などマルチに活躍しています。今作は彼の代表作に、ブルーレイ・ディスクを加えたデラックス・エディションです。ブルーレイには、CD収録曲の「サラウンド・サウンド」と「ドルビー・アトモス」による録音、ドキュメンタリーの「Mody Doc」の他、メイキング映像も収められています。

Looking back on 30 years as one of Americas most prominent electronic musicians, Moby made a surprise move to reimagine classics from his lengthy catalog as orchestral and acoustic reworkings. Inspired by a 2018 performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, he delivered Reprise, a triumphant career retrospective that breathes new life into familiar hits and deep cuts. Reaching all the way back to his 1992 debut, Moby amplifies his percussion-heavy breakthrough single Go into a dramatic tribal raver, while Everything Is Wrongs cosmic God Moving Over the Face of the Water expands even further with the grandiose backing of Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson. The best of the instrumentals on Reprise, however, is the de facto overture Everloving, whose cinematic sweep is absolutely breathtaking. In fact, this and the other tracks selected from his 1999 magnum opus Play are the most effective transformations here, allowing that albums soul- and gospel-heavy sampling to organically draw out the emotion and humanity on this project. The mournful Natural Blues is a showstopper, elevating the originals melancholy to stirring effect as Gregory Porter and Amythyst Kiah lament, Oh Lordy, my troubles so hard. The plaintive reflections on Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad benefit from the soulful vocals of Apollo Jane, Deitrick Haddon, and gospel choir the Samples, descending into pain before hope shines a light with the inspirational chorus. And while the ethereal Porcelain merges a wounded duet between Moby and My Morning Jackets Jim James, the true heft is found in the expansive orchestral arrangement, which pulls aside the veil to reveal a grandeur at which the original only hinted. These varying degrees of pain and catharsis are at the heart of Reprise, manifesting in a vulnerable reworking of David Bowies Heroes, a version that Moby notes he played with his late friend in 2001, and 18s dirge-like Extreme Ways. Emotional rock bottom is reached on the Innocents cut The Lonely Night, wherein a worn-out Mark Lanegan and Kris Kristofferson face mortality in a way that echoes Johnny Cashs twilight take on Nine Inch Nails Hurt. Through the tears and heartache, Moby offers a few uplifting reworkings, namely the epic We Are All Made of Stars -- which he styled as a classic rock opera in scope and progression -- and Lift Me Up, which transforms the transcendent original with a cacophonous chorus of voices, horn blasts, and galloping percussion. By toning down the euphoric dancefloor bliss of these often-repetitive techno anthems, the songs breathe and move in ways like never before. Reprise is a bold late-career gem that legitimizes Mobys brand of electronic music by extracting the existing emotions that always dwelled beneath the digital soundscapes, revealing a heart that was always there but is now on full glorious display. ~ Neil Z. Yeung

何とドイツ・グラモフォンからのオーケストラルなリアレンジ作品が登場。トライバルな生音ハウス調になった"Go"をはじめ、"Porcelain"We Are All Made Of Stars"など各時代の人気曲たちがアコースティックな意匠とグレゴリー・ポーターやデイトリック・ハッドン、ヴィキングル・オラフソン、ノーヴォ・アモールら幅広いゲストによって凛々しさを増している。ミンディ・ジョーンズの歌うデヴィッド・ボウイ"Heroes"のカヴァーも聴きものだ。
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