Forwarded from Albums Released Today
๐14 January 1977
David Bowie
๐ Low
45 years ago David Bowie released his 11th studio album Low. It's a complete change of sound in his music, reflecting a complete change in personal life! After years of drug abuse in the US #DavidBowie and his friend #IggyPop had just relocated first in France and at the end of 1976 in Berlin.
Low, recorded in France and completed in #Germany, is the first album of the so called Berlin Trilogy, where Bowie and Iggy collaborated and appeared in the respective albums and tours. In Low Bowie flirts with #ExperimentalRock and #Ambient, thanks to the work of his longtime producer #TonyVisconti and his longtime friend #BrianEno, the genius who was actually inventing ambient music at the time! ๐ค
The sound is also deeply influenced by German acts such as #Neu! and #Kraftwerk.
The album contains the single "Sound And Vision", one of the biggest Bowie successes (not intended by him who did nothing to promote it) thanks to BBC usage of the song in commercials.
#ArtRock #14January
David Bowie
๐ Low
45 years ago David Bowie released his 11th studio album Low. It's a complete change of sound in his music, reflecting a complete change in personal life! After years of drug abuse in the US #DavidBowie and his friend #IggyPop had just relocated first in France and at the end of 1976 in Berlin.
Low, recorded in France and completed in #Germany, is the first album of the so called Berlin Trilogy, where Bowie and Iggy collaborated and appeared in the respective albums and tours. In Low Bowie flirts with #ExperimentalRock and #Ambient, thanks to the work of his longtime producer #TonyVisconti and his longtime friend #BrianEno, the genius who was actually inventing ambient music at the time! ๐ค
The sound is also deeply influenced by German acts such as #Neu! and #Kraftwerk.
The album contains the single "Sound And Vision", one of the biggest Bowie successes (not intended by him who did nothing to promote it) thanks to BBC usage of the song in commercials.
#ArtRock #14January
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
๐ January 1972
NEU!
๐ NEU!
50 years ago an obscure duo of innovative musicians from Dรผsseldorf, #Germany released their eponymous debut album: NEU!
NEU is the German word for NEW and no word more than this one fits the music of Michael Rother (guitar, bass), Klaus Dinger (drums, guitar, taishลgoto), Konrad "Conny" Plank (producer, engineer).
The 3 had just left another German innovative band, #Kraftwerk, and recorded NEU! at the end of 1971.
If this album would be released today, I'm 100% sure it would be considered one of the best Post Rock / Electronic works of our time... the thing is, it was released in 1972 when "traditional" rock'n'roll was all around, still growing and developing ๐ณ
#NEU! had poor response, perhaps it was too weird and ahead, put into the usual #Krautrock pot like everything that came from Germany in those years.
From the repetitive 4/4 drumbeat of the initial "Hallogallo", to the hallucinated whispers of the final "Lieber Honig"... a timeless experience! #ExperimentalRock
NEU!
๐ NEU!
50 years ago an obscure duo of innovative musicians from Dรผsseldorf, #Germany released their eponymous debut album: NEU!
NEU is the German word for NEW and no word more than this one fits the music of Michael Rother (guitar, bass), Klaus Dinger (drums, guitar, taishลgoto), Konrad "Conny" Plank (producer, engineer).
The 3 had just left another German innovative band, #Kraftwerk, and recorded NEU! at the end of 1971.
If this album would be released today, I'm 100% sure it would be considered one of the best Post Rock / Electronic works of our time... the thing is, it was released in 1972 when "traditional" rock'n'roll was all around, still growing and developing ๐ณ
#NEU! had poor response, perhaps it was too weird and ahead, put into the usual #Krautrock pot like everything that came from Germany in those years.
From the repetitive 4/4 drumbeat of the initial "Hallogallo", to the hallucinated whispers of the final "Lieber Honig"... a timeless experience! #ExperimentalRock
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Forwarded from Albums Released Today
๐ March 1977
Kraftwerk
๐ Trans-Europe Express
#Electronic #Synthpop #ExperimentalPop #Avantgarde
45 years ago Kraftwerk from #Germany released their 6th studio album which they entitled to celebrate the titular European railway service and Europe as a whole.
Trans-Europe Express was the highest international charting album by #Kraftwerk to date, also thanks to a change of sound, now more focused on a melodic electronic style, sequenced rhythms, minimalism and occasionally manipulated vocals.
This album had success and consideration also among the late 1970s /early 1980s growing punk and new wave generation of musicians and is often cited as an influence. The titletrack reproducing electronically a running train is epic, one of the most known Kraftwerk's numbers for sure!
Listen to Trans-Europe Express ๐ here
Kraftwerk
๐ Trans-Europe Express
#Electronic #Synthpop #ExperimentalPop #Avantgarde
45 years ago Kraftwerk from #Germany released their 6th studio album which they entitled to celebrate the titular European railway service and Europe as a whole.
Trans-Europe Express was the highest international charting album by #Kraftwerk to date, also thanks to a change of sound, now more focused on a melodic electronic style, sequenced rhythms, minimalism and occasionally manipulated vocals.
This album had success and consideration also among the late 1970s /early 1980s growing punk and new wave generation of musicians and is often cited as an influence. The titletrack reproducing electronically a running train is epic, one of the most known Kraftwerk's numbers for sure!
Listen to Trans-Europe Express ๐ here
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๐ผ Great weekend ahead in #Padua, 20 minutes from #VeniceRocksRoom ๐ค
#Kraftwerk on Saturday, #DreamTheater with #DevinTownsend (Happy 50th Birthday๐พ) on Sunday!
#myconcerts are back!
#Kraftwerk on Saturday, #DreamTheater with #DevinTownsend (Happy 50th Birthday๐พ) on Sunday!
#myconcerts are back!