Bob Dylan Ionic Authentic collector’s version recording of Blowin’ In The Wind sells for $1.7m at public sale

Bob Dylan’s first new studio recording since 1962 of his basic monitor Blowin’ within the Wind has bought for £1.48 million ($1.76m) at public sale.

Bought by public sale home Christie’s in London, the recording was lower throughout a particular session with Grammy-winning producer T Bone Burnett, on a so-called “Ionic Authentic disc” the brand new analog format developed by Burnett, who just lately launched a enterprise known as NeoFidelity Inc to develop this new recording know-how.

The Ionic Authentic is described as a “one-of-one, hand-made, collector’s version grasp recording”.

ach one is particularly organized and carried out for every particular person recorded disc by the artist.

In accordance with Burnett’s NeoFidelity Inc, Ionic’s patented know-how makes use of “nanotechnology, materials sciences and supplies to develop a brand new bodily audio format during which purpose-engineered coatings and underlying composite polymers are utilized to a standard acetate substrate particularly designed for the superior copy and preservation of analog sound”.

The Ionic Authentic disc is playable on “generally out there” vinyl playback gear, and is described by the corporate because the “holy grail” for artists and audiophiles.

This Bob Dylan ‘Ionic Authentic’ disc bought at Christie’s this week is the primary recording to make use of this patented know-how from Burnett’s firm.

Talking in April, Burnett described an Ionic Authentic as “the top of recorded sound”.

He added: “It’s archival high quality. It’s future-proof. It’s one in every of one. Not solely is an Ionic Authentic the equal of a portray, it’s a portray. It’s lacquer painted onto an aluminum disc, with a spiral etched into it by music. This portray, nevertheless, has the extra high quality of containing that music, which might be heard by placing a stylus into the spiral and spinning it.”

 

A number of Grammy and Oscar winner Joseph Henry “T Bone” Burnett is a producer, musician and songwriter.

Burnett composed and produced the music for HBO sequence True Detective, and his movie work consists of the five-time Grammy successful soundtrack for O Brother, The place Artwork Thou?, The Large Lebowski, Chilly Mountain, The Starvation Video games, Loopy Coronary heart and Stroll The Line, amongst others.

He has collaborated with quite a few artists together with Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello and Roy Orbison, and received Album of the 12 months and Report of the 12 months Grammy Awards for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Elevating Sand.

“I belief and hope it should imply as a lot to whomever acquired it immediately at Christie’s Distinctive Sale because it does to all of us who made it, and that they may take into account it and take care of it as a portray or every other singular murals.”

T Bone Burnett

T Bone Burnett, Founding father of NeoFidelity Inc. and multi-Grammy-winning producer, stated: “Marshall McLuhan stated {that a} medium surrounds a earlier medium and turns the earlier medium into an artwork type, as movie did with novels, as tv did with movie, because the web has completed with tv, and as digital has completed with analogue.

“With Bob Dylan’s new model of Blowin’ In The Wind, our first Ionic Authentic archival analogue disc, we have now entered and goal to assist develop a music house within the superb arts market.

“I belief and hope it should imply as a lot to whomever acquired it immediately at Christie’s Distinctive Sale because it does to all of us who made it, and that they may take into account it and take care of it as a portray or every other singular murals.”

Peter Klarnet, Christie’s Senior Specialist, Americana, Books and Manuscripts: “We’re so happy with the wonderful consequence this night for the ‘Ionic Authentic’ disc of Bob Dylan’s first new studio recording of Blowin’ within the Wind since 1962.

“To work with such an extremely vital and groundbreaking advance in analogue playback know-how is an incredible honor.

“We’re excited that that is only the start for this superb new alternative for recording artists to work with T Bone and NeoFidelity to reset the worth of music.”

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