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Topic: Bowie hires jazz artists for new albumPosted By: snobb
Subject: Bowie hires jazz artists for new album
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 7:34am
Bowie hires jazz artists for new album
By Mark SavageMusic reporter
Rock star David Bowie has hired a group of young jazz musicians to push his 25th album in a new direction.
"Having jazz guys play rock music turns it upside down," Bowie's producer Tony Visconti http://www.mojo4music.com/22320/the-secrets-of-david-bowie-%E2%98%85-album/" rel="nofollow - told Mojo magazine .
Called ★ (Blackstar), the record will be released on 8 January 2016 - the star's 69th birthday.
Unlike his 2013 comeback, The Next Day, it deliberately refrains from referencing the musician's back catalogue.
"The Next Day started out trying to do something new but something old kept creeping in," Visconti said. "Not this album."
Recording in New York between January and May this year, Bowie sought out jazz artists to stop him falling back on rock cliches.
Led
by saxophonist Donny McCaslin, the core group includes virtuoso
guitarist Ben Monder and drummer Mark Guiliana - recently named one of
the world's http://www.bbc.com/news/10%20best%20new%20drummers%20in%20the%20world%20right%20now" rel="nofollow - top 10 drummers .
They
are joined by pianist Jason Lindner and bassist Tim Lefebrve - who has
previously worked with Donald Fagen and Jamie Cullum, and was part of
the the house band for Saturday Night Live.
"If
we'd used David's former musicians they would be rock people playing
jazz," explained Visconti. "Having jazz guys play rock music turns it
upside down.
"Their approach to the music was so refreshing, I
looked forward to every day in the studio. Nothing was done recalling
the past."
Footage of the musicians playing in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrYaHTm_YrQ" rel="nofollow - Chicago and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOhOjMQLOfQ" rel="nofollow - New York - without David Bowie - can be found on Youtube.
The first single from the album, also called Blackstar, will be released on Friday, 20 November.
Fans have already been able to hear a truncated version of the song, which appears as the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6J44zGDb6g" rel="nofollow - theme music for the TV show The Last Panthers .
The
dark, brooding track finds Bowie intoning in the style of a monastic
chant: "On the day of execution / Only women kneel and smile" before a
sinister beat kicks in.
The bleak, haunting underscore is reminiscent of the instrumentals on the b-side of Bowie's 1977 album Heroes.
A short film for the song will premiere on Sky
Atlantic tonight (Thursday) before the second episode of The Last
Panthers, a European crime drama starring John Hurt and Samantha Morton.
A preview image for the 10-minute video shows the musician wearing a gauze blindfold, with buttons stitched over his eyes.
Like
the series, the video has been directed by Johan Renck, whose previous
work includes Breaking Bad and music videos for Madonna, Suede and The
Libertines.
"I haven't done a music video in a long time," http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/david-bowie-director-of-blackstar-video-johan-renck-on-how-working-with-bowie-blew-my-mind" rel="nofollow - Renck told NME , "but when Bowie asks, you'd jump at it."
"They say don't meet your heroes but when it comes to Bowie, he truly is the most brilliant person I've ever met."