David Bowie Brilliant Adventure

The Brilliant Adventure EP, building off the 1992-2001 Era box set of the same name, offers four previously unreleased cuts: an early version of "I'm Afraid of Americans" called "Johnny Downloader" recorded during the 1. Outside sessions with Brian Eno and mixed in November 1994; an alternative single mix of the album's "I Have Not Been to Oxford Town;" a live version of another Outside track, "A Small Plot of Land;" and a cover of Jacques Brel's "My Death." The latter two tracks were performed by Bowie accompanied by his longtime collaborator/pianist Mike Garson at a fundraiser for the Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival in New York City on September 18, 1995.

The fifth in a series of box sets that break down David Bowie's discography into cohesively thematic eras, Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) covers the most years of any of the sets to date: nearly a full decade, almost twice as long as the period chronicled on 2018's Loving the Alien (1983-1988).

Published in November 2021, Brilliant Adventure zooms in on David Bowie's 1992-2001 period. At the heart of this copious box set of more than 130 tracks is Toy, an unreleased opus recorded in New York between July and October 2000, on which the Thin White Duke revisits his songs from his mod beginnings, in the sixties (when he was acting as Davy Jones and the Lower Third and Davie Jones with the King Bees), and that he dresses with the sound of his time.