David Bowie - Low (1977) [Full Album]

Low is the eleventh studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 14 January 1977 through RCA Records. The first of three collaborations with the producer Tony Visconti and the musician Brian Eno that became known as the Berlin Trilogy, the project originated following Bowie's move to France in 1976 with his friend Iggy Pop to rid themselves of their drug addictions. There, Bowie produced and co-wrote Pop's debut studio album, The Idiot, featuring sounds the former would explore on his next record. After completing The Idiot, sessions for Low began at Hérouville's Château d'Hérouville in September 1976 and ended in October at Hansa Studios in West Berlin, where Bowie and Pop had relocated.

Grounded in art rock and experimental rock and influenced by German bands such as Tangerine Dream, Neu!, Harmonia and Kraftwerk, Low features Bowie's first explorations in electronic and ambient styles. Side one consists primarily of short, direct avant-pop song-fragments, with mostly downbeat lyrics reflecting Bowie's state of mind, and side two comprises longer, mostly instrumental tracks, conveying musical observations of Berlin. Visconti created the distinctive drum sound using an Eventide H910 Harmonizer, a pitch-shifting device. The cover artwork, a profile of Bowie from the film The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), was intended as a visual pun, meaning "low profile".

Tracklist:
Side one
1. Speed of Life 0:00
2. Breaking Glass 2:46
3. What in the World 4:40
4. Sound and Vision 7:03
5. Always Crashing in the Same Car 10:07
6. Be My Wife 13:36
7. A New Career in a New Town 16:33
Side two
1. Warszawa 19:27
2. Art Decade 25:52
3. Weeping Wall 29:39
4. Subterraneans 33:07

Personnel
Personnel per the album's liner notes and biographer Nicholas Pegg. Track numbers noted in parentheses below are based on the CD track numbering of the 1991 reissue.
David Bowie – vocals (2–6, 8, 10–11), saxophones (4, 11), guitar (6, 9–11), pump bass (6), harmonica (7), vibraphone (9–10), xylophone (10), pre-arranged percussion (9), keyboards: ARP synthesiser (1, 10–11), Chamberlin: Credited on the album sleeve notes as "tape horn and brass" (1), "synthetic strings" (1, 4, 9–10), "tape cellos" (5) and "tape sax section" (7), piano (7, 9–11)
Brian Eno – keyboards: Minimoog (2, 8–9), ARP (3, 11), EMS Synthi AKS (listed as "E.M.I.") (3, 5), piano (7–9, 11), Chamberlin (8–9), other synthesisers, vocals (4), guitar treatments (5), synthetics (7)
Carlos Alomar – rhythm guitars (1, 3–7), lead guitar (1, 2), guitar (11)
Dennis Davis – percussion (1–7)
George Murray – bass (1–7, 11)
Ricky Gardiner – rhythm guitar (2), lead guitar (3–7)
Roy Young – piano (1, 3–7), Farfisa organ (3, 5)

Additional musicians
Iggy Pop – backing vocals (3)
Mary Visconti – backing vocals (4)
Eduard Meyer – cellos (9)
Peter and Paul – pianos and ARP (11) (a.k.a. J. Peter Robinson and Paul Buckmaster, who had worked with Bowie on The Man Who Fell to Earth soundtrack)

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