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Officially, Dr. Dee is Damon Albarn's first solo album but that's the tiniest misnomer. Ever since Graham Coxon left Blur during the recording of Think Tank, Albarn has been the unquestioned director of his projects, his authoritative stamp evident on Think Tank, all three Gorillaz albums, Mali Music, the Good, the Bad & the Queen, and Rocket Juice & the Moon, so Dr. Dee doesn't exactly have the shock of the new even though it's certainly willfully odd. An opera -- not a rock opera, or the first opera Albarn has written, as he has 2007's Monkey: Journey to the West under his belt -- Dr. Dee concerns itself with the story of John Dee, the 16th century mathematician and occultist who was an advisor to Elizabeth I and is said to be the inspiration for Marlowe's Faustus and Shakespeare's Prospero. Rich material for an opera, in other words, and Dr. Dee is certainly thick with ideas, Albarn not running away from his signature tropes so much as using them as a launching pad for a stately, lugubrious collection of minor-key instrumentals, skeletal pop songs, plainsongs, and madrigals. Much of this is intriguing, yet as an album if not a production, Dr. Dee stays just this side of compelling, always threatening to veer into surprising, dangerous territory yet never quite succumbing to the risk. And that is where Dr. Dee's roots in the stage show: perhaps it is a bit stuffy and hidebound for art rock, but taken as a theatrical production, it's adventurously cerebral, an album to ponder if not quite embrace.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Mike Smith, Organ - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Production Consultant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Arngeir Hauksson, Hurdy-gurdy
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - Simon Tong, Guitar - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Arngeir Hauksson, Theorbo - Bill Lyons, Musician - Liam Byrne, Viol - Caroline Ritchie, Viol
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, Harmonium, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, Assistant Additional Recording Engineer - Simon Tong, Guitar - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Mike Smith, Organ - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Anna Dennis, Vocals - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Arngeir Hauksson, Theorbo - Bill Lyons, Musician - Liam Byrne, Viol - Caroline Ritchie, Viol - Anne Allen, Musician - David Hatcher, Musician
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - Simon Tong, Guitar - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Mike Smith, Keyboards - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Arngeir Hauksson, Theorbo - Liam Byrne, Viol - Caroline Ritchie, Viol - Victoria Couper, Vocals - Madou Diabate, Kora Guitar
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Steven Page, Vocals - Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocals - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Rufus Norris, Writer
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, Harmonium, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Mike Smith, Organ - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Anna Dennis, Vocals - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Arngeir Hauksson, Theorbo - Bill Lyons, Musician - Liam Byrne, Viol - Caroline Ritchie, Viol - Madou Diabate, Kora Guitar - David Hatcher, Musician
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Steven Page, Vocals - Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Emma Smith, Soprano Vocals - Simon Wall, Tenor Vocals - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - Ashley Catling, Tenor Vocals - Andrew Walters, Tenor Vocals - Christopher Robson, Vocals - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Melanie Pappenheim, Vocals - Anna Dennis, Vocals - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Arngeir Hauksson, Theorbo - Victoria Couper, Vocals - Madou Diabate, Kora Guitar - Palace Voices, Vocals - Belinda Evans, Soprano Vocals - Elinor Moran, Soprano Vocals - Nicola Wydenbach, Soprano Vocals - Russell Matthews, Bass - Alastair Merry, Bass - Claire Barnett-Jones, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Ruth Gibbins, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Leanie Lodge, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Amy Payne, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Benedict Quirke, Tenor Vocals - Edward Grint, Bass - Philip Tebb, Bass - Rufus Norris, Writer
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, All Instruments, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, RecordingEngineer - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Steven Page, Vocals - Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Emma Smith, Soprano Vocals - Simon Wall, Tenor Vocals - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - Ashley Catling, Tenor Vocals - Andrew Walters, Tenor Vocals - Christopher Robson, Vocals - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Melanie Pappenheim, Vocals - Anna Dennis, Vocals - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Victoria Couper, Vocals - Madou Diabate, Kora Guitar - Palace Voices, Vocals - Belinda Evans, Soprano Vocals - Elinor Moran, Soprano Vocals - Nicola Wydenbach, Soprano Vocals - Russell Matthews, Bass - Alastair Merry, Bass - Claire Barnett-Jones, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Ruth Gibbins, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Leanie Lodge, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Amy Payne, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Benedict Quirke, Tenor Vocals - Edward Grint, Bass - Philip Tebb, Bass - Rufus Norris, Writer
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Christopher Robson, Vocals, Writer - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Mike Smith, Organ - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Bill Lyons, Musician - Liam Byrne, Viol - Caroline Ritchie, Viol - David Hatcher, Musician - Rufus Norris, Writer
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Tony Allen, Drums - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, All Instruments, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, RecordingEngineer - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Steven Page, Vocals - Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Emma Smith, Soprano Vocals - Simon Wall, Tenor Vocals - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - Ashley Catling, Tenor Vocals - Andrew Walters, Tenor Vocals - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Christopher Robson, Vocals - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Mike Smith, Organ - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Melanie Pappenheim, Vocals - Anna Dennis, Vocals - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Bill Lyons, Musician - Anne Allen, Musician - Victoria Couper, Vocals - Palace Voices, Vocals - Belinda Evans, Soprano Vocals - Elinor Moran, Soprano Vocals - Nicola Wydenbach, Soprano Vocals - Russell Matthews, Bass - Alastair Merry, Bass - Claire Barnett-Jones, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Ruth Gibbins, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Leanie Lodge, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Amy Payne, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Benedict Quirke, Tenor Vocals - David Hatcher, Musician - Edward Grint, Bass - Philip Tebb, Bass
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Steven Page, Vocals - Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, Harmonium, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Christopher Robson, Vocals - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Mike Smith, Organ - Tony Allen, Drums - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Melanie Pappenheim, Vocals - Anna Dennis, Vocals - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Bill Lyons, Musician - Liam Byrne, Viol - Caroline Ritchie, Viol - Anne Allen, Musician - Victoria Couper, Vocals - David Hatcher, Musician
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Arngeir Hauksson, Theorbo - Madou Diabate, Kora Guitar
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Arngeir Hauksson, Theorbo - Bill Lyons, Musician - Liam Byrne, Viol - Caroline Ritchie, Viol - Anne Allen, Musician - David Hatcher, Musician
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Steven Page, Vocals - Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Emma Smith, Soprano Vocals - Simon Wall, Tenor Vocals - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, AdditionalEngineer - Ashley Catling, Tenor Vocals - Andrew Walters, Tenor Vocals - Christopher Robson, Vocals - André de Ridder, Conductor, Orchestration - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Melanie Pappenheim, Vocals - Anna Dennis, Vocals - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Paul Arditti, Recording Assistant - Stevie Higgins, Music Supervisor - Stephen Rinker, Sound Engineer - Victoria Couper, Vocals - Palace Voices, Vocals - Belinda Evans, Soprano Vocals - Elinor Moran, Soprano Vocals - Nicola Wydenbach, Soprano Vocals - Russell Matthews, Bass - Alastair Merry, Bass - Claire Barnett-Jones, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Ruth Gibbins, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Leanie Lodge, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Amy Payne, Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Benedict Quirke, Tenor Vocals - Edward Grint, Bass - Philip Tebb, Bass
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, MasteringEngineer - Paul Evans, Mixer - Damon Albarn, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Stephen Sedgwick, RecordingEngineer - Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mixer - Alexander Overington, Assistant Mixer - Einar Stefansson, Assistant Mixer - Liam Byrne, Viol
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Albumbeschreibung
Officially, Dr. Dee is Damon Albarn's first solo album but that's the tiniest misnomer. Ever since Graham Coxon left Blur during the recording of Think Tank, Albarn has been the unquestioned director of his projects, his authoritative stamp evident on Think Tank, all three Gorillaz albums, Mali Music, the Good, the Bad & the Queen, and Rocket Juice & the Moon, so Dr. Dee doesn't exactly have the shock of the new even though it's certainly willfully odd. An opera -- not a rock opera, or the first opera Albarn has written, as he has 2007's Monkey: Journey to the West under his belt -- Dr. Dee concerns itself with the story of John Dee, the 16th century mathematician and occultist who was an advisor to Elizabeth I and is said to be the inspiration for Marlowe's Faustus and Shakespeare's Prospero. Rich material for an opera, in other words, and Dr. Dee is certainly thick with ideas, Albarn not running away from his signature tropes so much as using them as a launching pad for a stately, lugubrious collection of minor-key instrumentals, skeletal pop songs, plainsongs, and madrigals. Much of this is intriguing, yet as an album if not a production, Dr. Dee stays just this side of compelling, always threatening to veer into surprising, dangerous territory yet never quite succumbing to the risk. And that is where Dr. Dee's roots in the stage show: perhaps it is a bit stuffy and hidebound for art rock, but taken as a theatrical production, it's adventurously cerebral, an album to ponder if not quite embrace.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 00:48:02
- Main artists: Damon Albarn
- Label: Parlophone UK
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012 Thirteen Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
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