Product Code: F66028994410
Original price was: $36.99.$22.19Current price is: $22.19.anuary 1977 saw the release of the first installment of what came to be known asDavid Bowie'sBerlin trilogy. That album was the Bowie/Tony ViscontiproducedLowand it was followed later the same year byHeroeswith the trilogy completed in 1979 by the arrival ofLodger. Most of the music across the three albums wasn't even recorded in Berlin, the unifying factor actually being Bowie, Visconti andBrian Eno.
Much has been written about the brilliance and braveness of the music onLow, and rightly so. It's probably hard to imagine with the ears of today how absolutely unique the record sounded back in 1977. Apart from the obvious slicing of the album into two distinct sides, Visconti giftedLowthat distinctive drum sound, among other things.ThoughLowwas a record purportedly informed by the likes of Kraftwerk and other German musicians of the time, it actually sounded far more organic and not at all mechanized. This was in no small measure due to the nucleus of the band Bowie had favored during this whole period (starting withStation To Station), ofCarlos Alomar(guitar),Dennis Davis(drums) andGeorge Murray(bass).
The album was a commercial success, peaking at No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 11 on the US Billboard Pop Albums chart. "Sound and Vision" and "Be My Wife" were released as singles; the former reaching No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart.Lowsounds as fresh today as it ever did...thirty nine minutes of untouchable genius. Prepare to be transported by its gloriously uplifting melancholia and majestic musical language from a time and place that has yet to arrive.
