Tom Waits – The Black Rider (2023 Remaster) (1993/2023) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Tom Waits – The Black Rider (2023 Remaster) (1993/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:31 minutes | 2,17 GB | Genre: Blues Rock, Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music)

The Black Rider is the twelfth studio album by Tom Waits, released in 1993 on Island Records, featuring studio versions of songs Waits wrote for the play The Black Rider, directed by Robert Wilson and co-written by William S. Burroughs. The play is based on the German folktale Der Freischütz by Johann August Apel, which had previously been made into an opera by Carl Maria von Weber. The play premiered on March 31, 1990, at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Germany. Its world English-language premiere occurred in 1998 at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival.

Waits would later collaborate with Wilson on the plays Alice (1992) and Woyzeck (2000), the music to which were released on the albums Alice and Blood Money, respectively.Tom Waits collaborated with director Robert Wilson and librettist William Burroughs on the musical stage work The Black Rider in 1990. A variation on the Faust legend, the 19th century German story allowed Waits to indulge his affection for the music of Kurt Weill and address one of his favorite topics of recent years, the devil. Waits had proven an excellent collaborator when he worked with director Francis Ford Coppola on One from the Heart, making that score an integral part of the film. Here, the collaboration and the established story line served to focus Waits’ often fragmented attention, lending coherence and consistency. He then had three years to adapt the score into a record album in which he did most of the singing and writing (though Burroughs contributed, singing one song and writing lyrics to three), and he used the time to come up with his best recording in a decade, a varied set of songs that work whether or not you know the show. (Seven of the 20 tracks were instrumentals.) Waits used the word “crude” to describe his working method several times in the liner notes, and a crude performing and recording style continued to appeal to him. But the kind of chaos that can sometimes result from that style was reined in by the bands he assembled in Germany and Los Angeles to record the score, so that the recordings were lively without being off-puttingly primitive. – William Ruhlmann

Tracklist:

1-1. Tom Waits – Lucky Day Overture (2023 Remaster) (02:26)
1-2. Tom Waits – The Black Rider (2023 Remaster) (03:20)
1-3. Tom Waits – November (2023 Remaster) (02:53)
1-4. Tom Waits – Just The Right Bullets (2023 Remaster) (03:35)
1-5. Tom Waits – Black Box Theme (2023 Remaster) (02:41)
1-6. Tom Waits – ‘Tain’t No Sin (2023 Remaster) (02:25)
1-7. Tom Waits – Flash Pan Hunter/Intro (2023 Remaster) (01:09)
1-8. Tom Waits – That’s The Way (2023 Remaster) (01:07)
1-9. Tom Waits – The Briar And The Rose (2023 Remaster) (03:50)
1-10. Tom Waits – Russian Dance (2023 Remaster) (03:11)
1-11. Tom Waits – Gospel Train/Orchestra (2023 Remaster) (02:33)
1-12. Tom Waits – I’ll Shoot The Moon (2023 Remaster) (03:51)
1-13. Tom Waits – Flash Pan Hunter (2023 Remaster) (03:10)
1-14. Tom Waits – Crossroads (2023 Remaster) (02:42)
1-15. Tom Waits – Gospel Train (2023 Remaster) (04:42)
1-16. Tom Waits – Interlude (2023 Remaster) (00:18)
1-17. Tom Waits – Oily Night (2023 Remaster) (04:23)
1-18. Tom Waits – Lucky Day (2023 Remaster) (03:42)
1-19. Tom Waits – The Last Rose Of The Summer (2023 Remaster) (02:06)
1-20. Tom Waits – Carnival (2023 Remaster) (01:17)

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