A new 2021 registration of the classic theme Blowing in the wind Bob Dylan’s song sold yesterday for £ 1.48 million, or $ 1.76 million, at Christie’s auction house in London, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the iconic song. The buyer is not known.

This is the first studio recording since 1962 that Dylan makes of the song, which originally belongs to his second album, Bob Dylan freewheelingand became one of the symbols of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

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Last year, the legendary singer-songwriter returned to the studio to make a new version together with the award-winning producer / songwriter T Bone Burnett, awarded with several Grammys and Oscars. It was made with a new and special technology, with a unique vinyl edition.

According to Burnett, “Sixty years after Bob wrote and recorded Blowing in the windA new recording of his song is offered, which is profoundly relevant to our times and has been played through decades of the artist’s life and experience. “

The catalog description read: “Original Neofidelity ion acetate disc from a 2021 recording of Blowing in the wind in customized walnut and white oak box. Composed by Bob Dylan, produced by Joseph Henry ‘T-Bone’ Burnett and mastered by Jeff Powell. Removable vinyl Menfi, 2022 “.

At Christie’s, they were “thrilled” to be able to offer this “unique recording”, according to one of the bidding house specialists, Peter Klarnet, who called the song “one of the most important of the last century”.

What is an “ionic” disk.

This version of Blowing in the wind is the first album “Ionic Original”, made with a technology created to conquer new frontiers of sound. It’s an analog record, like vinyl. But a layer of aluminum has been added to it, like the CD, and it can be read by means of a light pen.

According to the manufacturer, the human ear will never have heard anything so deep, or so precise. In 2008 his search for the perfect sound led him to create a new format, called Code, with which he distributes an album by John Mellencamp, Life, death, love and freedomwhich could be played on a DVD player, perhaps not the best means of achieving sonic nirvana.

When he patented Code, T-Bone Burnett still had the general public in mind, but now his commitment is somewhat more exclusive and threatens to deal another blow to the music industry.

Other works auctioned

In the same auction, he was left without a buyer a Hellier Stradivarius violin made in 1679 by the famous luthier Antonio Stradivari. The instrument is distinguished by particular inlays that outline its shape, making it “one of only 11 decorated and inlaid violins” by the Cremonese master, according to Christie’s specialist Florian Leonard.

“It comes from the early Stradivari period and was made in 1679 with already very mature design features, such as its large pattern and its embroidery with bold elements and a wide, flat bow,” he said.

The sculpture was also offered to the highest bidder. Magdalene lying down by Antonio Canova and other works by great artists such as the Renaissance Lucas Cranach the Elder, the Flemish painter Anton Van Dyck and the English William Turnerknown as “the painter of light”.

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