Queen have shared a brand new tackle their debut album, Queen I, with a Dolby Atmos version launched on Audiophile Blu-ray.
“This is not just a remaster, this is a brand new 2024 rebuild of the entire Queen debut album,” defined Brian Might when saying the discharge of the band’s revisit of their eponymous debut album late final yr. Might additional elaborated: “Every instrument has been revisited to produce the ‘live’ ambient sound we would have liked to use originally.”
With Brian Might and Roger Taylor performing as government producers, and overseen by Queen’s long-standing audio-production workforce of Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson, this enhanced spatial encompass sound format launch breathes gorgeous new life into the band’s epic and distinctive multi-layered sound.
Says Justin Shirley-Smith: “It always feels like Queen’s music was designed for immersive formats. It’s dramatic and powerful and has a lot of dynamics. The original album was recorded more than 50 years ago, but it was so ambitious musically, rhythmically and lyrically. It’s beyond belief really, and it’s such a joy for us to work on.”
To combine Queen I in Dolby Atmos, the workforce made stems from the 2024 stereo combine, permitting them to course of and pan every musical half individually, bringing new depth and dimensions to an album already bursting with invention.
Initially launched in 1973 and that includes the long-lasting line-up of Freddie Mercury, Brian Might, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, Queen’s self-titled debut album marked the beginning of the band’s journey, showcasing a band whose staggering musical abilities and breadth of ambition stay unmatched.
In additional thrilling information, the band has additionally shared a lyric video for the long-lasting “My Fairy King.” Concerning the observe, Shirley-Smith mentioned: “…the song ‘My Fairy King’ is a precursor to what came later with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ It’s so adventurous, and this new mix brings out things that you won’t have heard before. Like everything on the album, it sounds fantastic.”
For the tune, Freddie Mercury took inspiration from Robert Browning’s poem “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” even repurposing a few of the phrasings from the 1842 story. The opening verse of the tune, wherein Mercury sings, “In the land where horses born with eagle wings/ And honey bees have lost their stings/ There’s singing forever/ Lion’s den with fallow deer,” has been in comparison with Browning’s poem, which reads: “The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here/ And their dogs outran our fallow deer/ And honey-bees had lost their stings/ And horses were born with eagles’ wings.”
Order Queen I in Dolby Atmos now.
