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Photo provided by Sony Music of David Bowie, who presented his new album, “Blackstar” with issues in which “El Duque Blanco” has unleashed the rock experimentation, accompanied by a jazz quartet. EFE

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             “Blackstar” another great alien album David Bowie

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19/12/2015 9:40 (-6 GTM)

                Madrid, December 19 (EFE) .- They say “Blackstar”, the new album David Bowie released on January 8, arguably the fourth chapter of his Berlin trilogy, probably by a clearly experimental quest that led him, as name suggests outside this galaxy … again.
One listen is not enough to grasp all the worlds within the twenty-fifth studio album by British, although it is true that the enormous intensity of this exercise musical casts doubt it is suitable to string reproductions.
Not “Blackstar” frugal disk and finish oozes quality not without humor, as if Bowie had given vent to her naughty mood after satisfying the public taste with the more conventional “The next day” (2013), expected and praised return to music after ten years without new material.
you’ve been very thorough in their preparation, London’s genius shows signs here playful exercise are not taken too seriously or at least not losing the provocative pulse with titles like “‘Tis a pity she was a whore” (“It’s a shame to be a whore” in Spanish).
His courage is doubly remarkable because, at age 68 and after 24 discs that repeatedly reinvented the history of popular music, he still has the desire to investigate and beyond.
In this case the feat is, first, to incorporate a quartet of jazz to rock and not sound mellow at 98 percent of its length and, secondly, that the incorporation of many elements to the main melodic line not sound chaotic, but unsettling.
The saxophone Donny McCaslin, known for making electronic versions of music artists like Aphex Twin, has almost as protagonist as the voice of Bowie, but far from smooth musical collusion, role is essential to underline dementia, boredom or decay that transmit songs.
production, of course, Tony Visconti, with whom Bowie Building 7 cuts long as seven cathedrals, some of which, like the inaugural “Blackstar “the first single, seems actually constituted by two songs on her almost ten minutes.
The videoclip was no less shocking. A skeleton embedded in an astronaut suit lands on a desert and red landscape, paid only for the mutated ground and to thrive for a dark church that preaches Bowie.
But maybe this simple is the craziest and overflowing exercise the entire repertoire, music and image give a true picture of the whole.
The cry of “Lazarus”, the second single and third cut in the order of said disc after “‘Tis a pity she was a whore” it is more accessible to the listener, with its heavy and plaintive sax.
contrasts with the speed that makes the battery in the next topic, “Sue (or in a season of crime),” which Bowie and published in 2014 and speaks of a relationship doomed to a bad end, in what seems like an obsessive search and accelerated after the protagonist of the title.
“Girl loves me” resembles a typical childhood song, especially the voice of Bowie that assumes that role from an almost psychotic perspective, with a church choir and a string section that reinforce the climate of mystery.
The driest has passed. The piano is the boss in “Dollar Days”, making this the most gloomy court and a small shelter for wild previous passages, spinning with the initial harmonic of “I can not give everything away,” with marked auction beatbox after a voice line, without its package of bitterness could have sung a ‘crooner “.
In its comprehensive listening, it is only the question of whether” Blackstar “contains pieces uniquely able to transcend the imaginary collective with gems like “Heroes,” The man who sold the world “or” Life on Mars “, although global amply satisfies the palate, the taste would leave the soundtrack to an imaginary remake of” Blade Runner “to by David Lynch.