Low [Remaster]

Performer: David Bowie
Artist: Iggy Pop; Brian Eno; Carlos Alomar
Engineer: Brian Eno; The Wall
Producer: David Bowie; Tony Visconti
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel: David Bowie (vocals, guitar, cello, harmonica, saxophone, piano, synthesizer, vibraphone, xylophone, pump bass, percussion, tapes, sound effects); Brian Eno (vocals, guitar, piano, Chamberlain, synthesizer); Carlos Alomar, Ricky Gardener (guitar); Eduard Meyer (cello); Roy Young (piano, Farfisa organ); Peter, Paul (piano, Arp synthesizer); George Murray (bass); Dennis Davis (percussion); Iggy Pop, Mary Visconti (background vocals). Recorded at Chateau d'Herouville, France and Hansa By The Wall, Berlin, Germany. This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel: David Bowie (vocals, guitar, cello, strings, harmonica, saxophone, horns, piano, chamberlin, keyboards, ARP synthesizer, vibraphone, xylophone, percussion); David Bowie (various instruments); Iggy Pop (vocals, piano, organ, background vocals); Mary Hopkin (vocals); Eduard Meyer, Eduard Meyerm (cello); Roy Young (piano, organ, Farfisa); Peter Himmelman (piano, ARP synthesizer); Roy Young (piano); George Murray (bass guitar); Brian Eno (vocals, guitar, piano, chamberlin, keyboards, synthesizer, mini-Moog synthesizer, Moog synthesizer); Mary Visconti (vocals, background vocals); Ricky Gardiner, Carlos Alomar (guitar); Dennis Davis (percussion). Audio Mixers: Brian Eno; David Bowie; David Richards . Audio Remasterers: Nigel Reeve; Peter Mew. Recording information: Ch�teau d'Herouville, France; Hansa; Hansa By The Wall, Berlin, Germ. Photographers: Christian Simonpietri; Steve Shapiro; Clive Anderson. The first (Heroes and Lodger would follow) of Bowie's three Berlin albums. Living there as a semi-recluse for three years, he worked with Svengali/producer Brian Eno and the results of their collaborations helped change the face of the European mainstream. Artists such as Gary Numan, Ultravox and OMD were indebted to the sound Bowie had created with the synthesizer to build a somewhat terse wall of sound. Critically acclaimed, but a relative commercial failure, apart from the surprise `Sound And Vision' hit single, it remains as a pertinent reminder of Bowie's ability to surprise and enlighten.

Rolling Stone (11/22/01, p.90) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...LOW flows together into a lyrical, hallucinatory, miraculously beautiful whole, the music of an overstimulated mind in an exhausted body..." Q (p.108) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n album of mournfully sincere synthesizer music." Q (10/91) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...the critical acclaim (LOW) received at the time still seems justified....a crucial part of rock history..." Q (6/00, p.80) - Ranked #14 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" Mojo (Publisher) (2/02, p.84) - "...The first and best of the so-called Berlin trilogy....'Sound And Vision', a remarkable venture into hypno-disco, typifies the approach. Hooks and melodies abound, but listen a little deeper and you'll hear some of the most radically constructed - and produced - 'pop' ever made." NME (Magazine) (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #24 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s. NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #67 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'

The mercurial David Bowie is the original pop chameleon. He's been everything from inoffensive pop singer to glam icon to white soul man to art-rocker and more in the course of his long, prolific career. Although Bowie's first hit was 1969's "Space Oddity," he didn't arrive as a full-formed pop sensation until he unveiled his Ziggy Stardust persona in 1972. After retiring Ziggy in 1974, Bowie moved from dystopian rock to Philly soul to cutting-edge experimental pop, all within the span of three years. In the following decades, Bowie has regularly released albums and starred in movies. Perhaps the most startling thing is that he's been at the forefront of so many musical movements, inspiring a slew of genres spearheaded by countless Bowie disciples.

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