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It also stands to reason that Bowie, with the help of Visconti, Eno and a huge element of risk, endeavoured to, in his words “develop a new musical language”, seeking out sonics and textures unlike any he’d produced before. Low dives headlong into the avant-garde, not just breaking but shattering for good the glass ceiling of his previous songwriting. In 2020, the entire album still sounds hermetically sealed in a universe all its own.

If Low is the heart of the celebrated ‘ Berlin’ trilogy then Sound And Vision is its soul.

However, it only managed a lowly 69 in the United States where it signalled a pause in his commercial success until 1983’s chart-slaying Let’s Dance. The song was also a top ten hit in Germany, Austria and The Netherlands. It’s three minutes of uplifting happy/sad hypno-disco wrapped in Krautrock and evocative electronic textures, Sound And Vision (the clue’s in the title) was used by the BBC in its continuity trailers at the time, providing incalculable exposure and giving the AWOL artist-holed up in Haupstrasse, West Berlin with Iggy Pop-a surprise hit single. That simple descending synthesizer line, a sudden sigh of delight. In the NZ case, I simply cued it up from Apple Music on my iPhone and streamed it to the car stereo.īowie’s flair for mechanised melodrama worked. Whenever I want to inform and broaden someone’s narrow view of Bowie the singer I ask them to listen to one song. Nowadays I’m armed and ready with my response. My companion for the week was an uber- Cure fanatic who didn’t mind Cat People but seemed to prefer looking at his shoes, “So I really wanted to like Bowie because Robert (Smith) likes him,” he admitted sanguinely.

It happened not so long ago on a road trip through New Zealand, in fact.

Pushed to explain exactly what it is about his voice they object to, most struggle to out it into words, though “mannered” and “theatrical” are ones that usually rear their ugly heads. You wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve heard that. However, the most common complaint about The Dame may surprise you. He used Iggy, he used Brian Eno, he used everybody.” Ouch. It’s obvious he was singing from the point of view of being Bowie, and the diatribe he let rip with pretty much confirmed it: “Yeah, well, I think David Bowie’s a fucking thief, a vampire and a charlatan.

Eventide h910 harmonizer it fucks with the fabric of time