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Chicago - Chicago II (Steven Wilson Remix) (1970/2017) [Hi-Res]

Chicago - Chicago II (Steven Wilson Remix) (1970/2017) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Chicago

  • Title: Chicago II (Steven Wilson Remix)
  • Year Of Release: 2017
  • Label: Rhino
  • Genre: Rock, Progressive, Jazz-Rock, Soft Rock
  • Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks) / [24bit-96kHz]
  • Total Time: 67:17
  • Total Size: 156 mb / 408 mb / 1.35 gb
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More than 40 years after its debut, Chicago II still sounds like nothing else. Released in 1970, Chicago's second album brims with confidence and inspiration as it draws on everything from orchestral music to heavy rock. Although it never affected the record's popularity - it peaked at #4 on the album chart and spawned a trio of Top Ten hits - many fans have longed for a more-nuanced mix. That wish is about to come true with a new stereo version created by British musician and producer Steven Wilson.

Chicago II has been remixed before, but never like this. For the first time, a stereo remix from the 16-track multi-track tapes made it possible for Steven Wilson to bring out elements that were muffled or submerged in the mix. The result is a new stereo version of Chicago II that boasts clearness, punch and definition that it didn't have before.

Wilson explains: "Working with high-resolution 96K/24 bit digitally transferred files, I had every element from the recording sessions isolated, which meant I was able to rebuild the mix from the drums upwards, recreating as closely as I could the equalization, stereo placement, reverbs, other effects, and volume changes of each individual instrument or vocal - but at the same time looking to gain definition and clarity in the overall sound."

In 1969, Chicago recorded the band's follow-up to their debut album, Chicago Transit Authority (voted 2014 into the Grammy Hall of Fame). When it arrived in January 1970, Chicago II became an instant sensation. Principal composers, James Pankow and Robert Lamm, emerged further as the band's source of Top Ten hits for the group, including "Make Me Smile" and "Colour My World," as well as "25 or 6 to 4," which peaked at #4 and has become one of the band's signature songs. Terry Kath, Robert Lamm, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, Walter Parazaider, also Danny Seraphine and Peter Cetera ... somehow found time (while touring the world behind the success of "CTA") to prepare another double LP album.

"So rich was their creative seam at the time that, like their debut, and the album that followed this one, it was a two record set," says Wilson. "In fact, with unprecedented boldness the run of double albums was only broken by their fourth which was a quadruple (live) set! I consider all of these albums to be classics, but perhaps Chicago II is the pre-eminent masterpiece. It's got everything: moments of tender beauty to power riffs and scorched-earth jazz-rock, catchy melodies and gorgeous vocal harmonies. When I first heard it as a teenager I was captivated by the mixture of jazz, blues, pop, classical, progressive and heavy rock styles, including both improvisational elements and intricate arrangements, and by songs written and sung by several different members, all with their own unique personality. How could that possibly hang together?! But it does, and brilliantly so."

TRACKLIST:

4:06 01-Movin' In (Steven Wilson Remix)
3:10 02-The Road (Steven Wilson Remix)
5:35 03-Poem For The People (Steven Wilson Remix)
6:34 04-In The Country (Steven Wilson Remix)
2:32 05-Wake Up Sunshine (Steven Wilson Remix)
3:15 06-Make Me Smile (Steven Wilson Remix)
1:12 07-So Much To Say, So Much To Give (Steven Wilson Remix)
1:01 08-Anxiety's Moment (Steven Wilson Remix)
1:34 09-West Virginia Fantasies (Steven Wilson Remix)
3:00 10-Colour My World (Steven Wilson Remix)
1:15 11-To Be Free (Steven Wilson Remix)
1:26 12-Now More Than Ever (Steven Wilson Remix)
5:10 13-Fancy Colours (Steven Wilson Remix)
4:58 14-25 Or 6 To 4 (Steven Wilson Remix)
1:10 15-Prelude (Steven Wilson Remix)
2:06 16-A.M. Mourning (Steven Wilson Remix)
1:58 17-P.M. Mourning (Steven Wilson Remix)
3:59 18-Memories Of Love (Steven Wilson Remix)
2:33 19-It Better End Soon (1st Movement) [Steven Wilson Remix]
3:40 20-It Better End Soon (2nd Movement) [Steven Wilson Remix]
3:18 21-It Better End Soon (3rd Movement) [Steven Wilson Remix]
0:56 22-It Better End Soon (4th Movement) [Steven Wilson Remix]
2:49 23-Where Do We Go From Here (Steven Wilson Remix)

Chicago's second studio album, mixed by the legendary Steven Wilson.

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Part 1 works now-thank you!
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Hi! Any way to upload part 1 to turbobit again? Part 2 still works. Thanks!!!
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Could you please re-up part 2? It's been deleted.
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ditto on part 2, greatly appreciate!!
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