“This is not a simple remaster, but a brand new” reconstruction “of 2024 of the entire debut album of the Queen,” he said Brian May announcing the release of the reinterpretation of their homonymous debut album at the end of last year, renamed 'Queen i'For this extraordinary new update. May then added: “Each tool was revisited to reproduce the environmental sound that we would have liked to use originally”.
Now i Queen They bring the publication to a higher level, announcing a brand new edition of their first album in a newly immersive edition. Made of limited edition, it will be available on Audiophile Bluray from 13 June. This new publication is distributed by Sony Music only in the United States, by Universal Music Group in the rest of the world.
With Brian May and Roger Taylor as executive producers And the supervision of the Queen long-standing audio production team composed of Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson, this version in 'Surround-Spatial-Miglio' format infuses new life to the epic-e-unique sound and the band.
Justin Shirley-Smith says: «It always seems that Queen's music was designed for immersive use. It is dramatic, powerful and full of dynamics. The original album was recorded more than 50 years ago, but it was so ambitious .. musically, rhythmically and also from the point of the perspective of the texts. It is truly incredible, and it was a joy for us to work there ».
To mix queen i in dolby atmos, the team created the stem from the stereo mix of 2024, which allowed them to process each musical part individually, giving new depth to the album.
Shirley-Smith explains: «It is always fun to work in atmos because the expanded sound field offers unpublished listening opportunities.
“We completed the mix with Lewis Jones at Abbey Road, in an excellent mixing study with all the necessary speakers,” he continues. “Lewis has worked on many significant immersive projects and is a fundamental part of the Mixaggio atmos team”.
Originally published in 1973 and with the iconic formation of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deaconthe Queen's homonymous debut album marked the beginning of their stellar journey, showing a band whose extraordinary musical talent and which remain unequaled.
Songs like Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, The Night Comes Down, Great King Rat, My Fairy King and Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll are the work of a band capable of offering everything, from impetuous hard rock hymns to delicate ballads even to elaborate and visionary mini-symphonies.
“There are so many different styles in the album,” says Justin Shirley-Smith. «The song My Fairy King, for example, is unquestionably an adventurous precursor of Bohemian Rhapsody. And this new mix brings out sound facets never heard before ».
The debut album of the Queenone of the most important in history. It was republished with great success in 2024 in a remixed box, remastered and expanded by 6 CDs + LP vinyl. Renaded Queen I, the album restored the song “lost” Mad the Swine in the final tracklist and saw the band returning to the ranking in the United Kingdom, reaching the highest placement since Live Around the World, recorded with the current singer Adam Lambert, reached the first place in 2020.
Now, more than 50 years after the original publication, this immersive mix in Dolby Atmos of the Queen debut disc illuminates an already iconic album with a completely new light.
Brian May says: “I am particularly enthusiastic about this new version in Dolby Atmos of what we now call Queen I. When the boys were converting the stereo reconstruction into a surround experience I could not be present due to a health problem. But I was very happy to have the opportunity to return with them recently and add my contribution to this multi -channel mix. There are also some Easter Eggs' interesting that those who know the album will certainly appreciate. Nobody has ever listened to our first album in this way !!! ».
“Finally,” concludes Roger Taylor, “Our first album sounds just as we imagined it …”
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
