{"id":78153,"date":"2025-09-06T18:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exhimusic.com\/magazine\/?p=78153"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:06:20","slug":"the-moody-blues-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exhimusic.com\/magazine\/2025\/09\/06\/the-moody-blues-the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moody Blues – The Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Moody Blues<\/strong>, The Present
1983, Decca, Threshold Records<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copertina di: The Studio <\/strong>(Sleeve design and Illustrations)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torna all’ INDICE del catalogo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The Present”<\/strong> \u00e8 l’undicesimo album in studio dei Moody Blues<\/strong>, pubblicato nell’agosto 1983. Rappresenta un momento di transizione per la band britannica, che in questo periodo stava esplorando sonorit\u00e0 pi\u00f9 moderne e commerciali rispetto alle loro radici progressive degli anni ’60 e ’70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L’album contiene brani come “Blue World”, che divenne uno dei loro singoli pi\u00f9 noti degli anni ’80, e “Sitting at the Wheel”. Il sound \u00e8 caratterizzato da un uso pi\u00f9 marcato di sintetizzatori e drum machine, seguendo le tendenze musicali dell’epoca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • \u00c8 stato il primo album dei Moody Blues a essere registrato digitalmente, segnando un importante cambiamento tecnologico per la band<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Il titolo “The Present” riflette la filosofia del gruppo di vivere nel momento presente, un tema ricorrente nei loro testi<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Nonostante le sonorit\u00e0 pi\u00f9 commerciali, l’album mantiene gli elementi orchestrali e le armonie vocali che hanno sempre contraddistinto i Moody Blues<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • L’album raggiunse buone posizioni nelle classifiche, dimostrando che la band riusc\u00ec con successo ad adattarsi ai cambiamenti musicali del decennio<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Fu prodotto da Pip Williams, noto per il suo lavoro con artisti come Status Quo e Wishbone Ash
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    L’album “The Present” del 1983 presenta una copertina artistica di particolare interesse storico e artistico, progettata dall’agenzia creativa “The Studio”<\/strong>.
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    La copertina \u00e8 una rielaborazione airbrush del dipinto neoclassico “Daybreak”<\/strong> (Alba) di Maxfield Parrish<\/strong>, creato nel 1922. Il design \u00e8 composto principalmente da tonalit\u00e0 arancioni\/gialle e blu\/grigie con una qualit\u00e0 pittorica airbrush, che conferisce un aspetto moderno e futuristico all’opera originale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “Daybreak” di Maxfield Parrish \u00e8 considerato la stampa d’arte pi\u00f9 popolare del XX secolo<\/strong>, basandosi sul numero di stampe prodotte: una per ogni quattro case americane. La copertina \u00e8 tecnicamente un pastiche del dipinto “Daybreak” di Maxfield Parrish, una forma d’arte che imita lo stile di un’opera esistente. La scelta di “Daybreak” come ispirazione visiva si collega perfettamente al titolo dell’album “The Present”, rappresentando un nuovo inizio e il momento presente.
    L’uso della tecnica airbrush da parte di The Studio<\/strong> confer\u00ec alla copertina un look distintivamente anni ’80, pur mantenendo l’eleganza classica dell’opera originale di Parrish.

    La copertina rappresenta un perfetto esempio di come l’arte commerciale degli anni ’80 sapesse reinterpretare capolavori del passato in chiave contemporanea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Moody Blues, The Present
    \n1983, Decca<\/p>\n

    Copertina di: The Studio (Sleeve design and Illustrations)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[131],"tags":[17211,17212,76,2616,82,17191,17210],"class_list":["post-78153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-similitudini","tag-decca","tag-maxfield-parrish","tag-pop","tag-prog-rock","tag-rock","tag-the-moody-blues","tag-the-studio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.exhimusic.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TheMoodyBlues-ThePresentLpartwork.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jNPU-kkx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":78094,"url":"https:\/\/www.exhimusic.com\/magazine\/2025\/09\/05\/the-moody-blues-in-search-of-the-lost-chord\/","url_meta":{"origin":78153,"position":0},"title":"The Moody Blues\u00a0\u2013\u00a0In Search Of The Lost Chord","author":"Exhimusic - 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