Ziggy Stardust came to Earth in 1972. That androgynous alien become a star Rock saw the light when his father and alter ego David Bowie announced in the middle of a concert in London who abandoned his character was going to another story, suddenly dissolving his band, The Spiders from Mars, led by the talented guitarist Mick Ronson. It reasoned that none of the musicians liked that farewell. Ronson is the best stand out: began working with Ian Hunter, Lou Reed and Bob Dylan, becoming a key element of the most fantastic altarpiece emerged from the music of the 60′s and 70′s. The rest had much less success.
Things happened so in those years. After a dark time, David Robert Jones, Bowie true identity had risen to fame with the ultimate glam-rock album universal, but the artist felt the need to leave Ziggy to portray his next character, the half-human being -semiperro that he served as a key to bring the glam one step further along the path of philosophy and visiting the lysergic and authoritarian mazes ‘Diamond Dogs’.
But, in view of ‘Blackstar’ , his latest album, which was released on 8 January, the same day the singer turned 69, it is clear that the alien rock messiah remained hidden somewhere in the mysterious mind of Mr. Bowie . Because in this album White Duke returns to space, stellar atmospheres, the prophecies, the apocalypse and sounds full of meanings, with particular intensity in this song almost ten minutes long with the repertoire opens and which is one of the best portals of entry ever recorded for an album of the author.
From a magnificent introduction, the rest of the list you can convince more or less, but good. Machiavellian and cleverly good. A long rod to overcome that level is needed.
‘Blackstar’ is signed by Bowie in each of its nearly 42 minutes. The singer plays with the senses, emotions and even their old patterns. Developed complex architectures.
Cool? There is something in their music that goes further. Knowledge? Much knowledge. Intelligence. ¿Intellect cool? If that. No phrasing dropped randomly. Not a banal structure. Everything is part of a technologically advanced ship. The feeling is that Ziggy has grown, has left behind the carrot hair, extreme thinness, androgyny that made him famous irreverent and equally, and has sophisticated among art galleries and jazz clubs, still remembering that reached the Earth to save the planet by using the rock as a weapon.
Territory White Duke
And that is not a long drive. Of probabilities. Upside: it is full. Only seven songs and three of them have already been reported in other versions in the past two years as new material in the anthology “nothing has changed” (2014) or the soundtrack of ‘Lazarus’, the musical about the British artist as it is shown in the Off-Broadway under the body and face of the protagonist of ‘Dexter’. But everything sounds harmonious. Surprising.
Uncharted, although one is sure what to expect in the next valley. ‘Blackstar’ assumes the philosophy and aesthetics of Bowie. The White Duke has served as architect of glam and punk, has explored its frontiers with pop and rock, but if something is this guy who gave up a knight but walks like a Manhattan Sir, your current microcosm of which just leaves The word is sophisticated. And risky.
Only an artist of his talanto can edit at 69 a disc so full of meaning in which besides his old armor is removed to go to new musicians to recreate sounds tighter to your project and your idea of what should be ‘Blackstar’.
Although production remains in the hands of Tony Visconti, Bowie is surrounded by various talents of jazz, sax advantage of synergies (arrogant Donny McCaslin ) and percussion and leads to a different territory. The territory of the White Duke. The result produces, again, Bowie reinventing itself.
Years ago, suffered a coronary problem in full play Brixton singer retired from the stage. Since then, zero tours. In 2013 he published ‘The Next Day’ resurrection album after ten years of silence that no one managed to forget that he is the master. Then came the palpitations, coffee cups, phone calls hundreds of agencies. Would Bowie on stage
Answer: no. Bowie is one of the few artists who do not mind the music industry, or contrary, suggesting the convenience of a tour or a handful of promotional interviews. In fact, any request that style stays in his office, just a few meters from his house. Probably the largest paper in the office.
Bowie is a sort of aristocrat in this business. As Ziggy, not part of its industrial and commercial world. Only his wife, the model Iman, children and a very small team of people, like Tony Visconti, producer and guide in the shade for forty years, well aware of what was happening inside the man, his plans, his change humor. For the rest, it is an enigma
Bowie studied music and art and, like Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell or Brian Eno, argued that both disciplines could come together and complement each other.; a current formalized in the EU-70′s which reached its peak in Berlin and London. Eno was a producer for the Berlin trilogy White Duke and architect of the U2 plastic steps.
Many of the efforts of the late singer Brixton are heading in that direction. And in his favor is true that most artistic power Marylin Manson or Paul McCartney. Regular art galleries, Bowie has promoted young artists and has even served as interviewer for prestigious art publications. Modest? Not at all. It was simply a guy in love with the beauty, sophistication and inquiry. Do not forget that before hiring the musicians who accompany him on ‘Blackstar’, Bowie studied how much material had edited discs and YouTube.
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