A previously unreleased album entitled The Gouster features in a new David Bowie box set due out this September.
The Gouster, previously unreleased as a complete album, was recorded at Sigma Sound, Philadelphia in 1974 and produced by Bowie’s regular collaborator, Tony Visconti. The album was mixed and mastered before Bowie decamped to New York to work with John Lennon and Harry Maslin on what became the Young Americans album.
The unreleased album contains three previously unreleased mixes of Right, Can You Hear Me and Somebody Up There Likes Me and will feature on David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976), the second in a series of Bowie box sets spanning the great man’s career from 1969.
The twelve CD box, thirteen-piece vinyl set and digital download features all of the material officially released by Bowie during the so-called American phase of his career.
The box set, which is named after a track recorded in 1974 but not officially released until the 1990’s, includes classic Diamond Dogs, David Live (in original and 2005 mixes), Young Americans and Station To Station (in original and 2010 mixes) as well as The Gouster, Live Nassau Coliseum 76 and a new compilation entitled Re:Call 2, which is a collection of single versions and non-album b-sides.
For the 2016 release, Tony Visconti has overseen the mastering from the original tapes and photos taken by Eric Stephen Jacobs have been put together for the sleeve based around one of Bowie’s original concepts for the album.
In other Bowie news, the late singer, who passed away last January, has been nominated for four awards at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Three of the nominations are for the haunting video his last single Lazarus, which is in the running for Best Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Editing, while Bowie's last studio album Blackstar is up for Best Art Direction.
The awards will be announced on August 29.
