Category Archives: Neu!

Fripp & Eno | (No Pussyfooting) (1973)

Posted on April 3, 2024 by the press music reviews

The image used for the 1973 ambient masterpiece (No Pussyfooting), was designed by British photographer and filmmaker Willie Christie, and exhibits Robert Fripp and Brian Eno perched in a dramatic Infinity Mirror Room. The striking composition was photographed and designed … Continue reading →

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David Bowie | Album Reviews

Posted on March 20, 2024 by the press music reviews

David Bowie | Album Reviews/Homages (1967 – 2016). Bowie’s output was consistently interesting over a long period of time despite a false start. From the 60s Ken Pitt vaudeville beginnings resulting in his first self-titled album, through to the solo … Continue reading →

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The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)

Posted on February 28, 2024 by the press music reviews

Beginning the slow climb back to artistic relevance with one of the great lost Bowie albums. TRACKS 1. Buddha of Suburbia: The title track (featuring the guitar break from ‘Space Oddity’, and revisiting the “Zane, Zane, Zane, Ouvre le chien” … Continue reading →

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Lodger (1979)

Posted on February 5, 2024 by the press music reviews

Recorded in a concrete bunker in Montreux, the perennially underrated Lodger delivers in despatches, a personal and political world view in a travelogue postcard from the itinerant D.J. himself. TRACKS 1. Fantastic Voyage: A political commentary about nuclear war resurrected … Continue reading →

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Low (1977)

Posted on February 1, 2024 by the press music reviews

David Bowie launches a complete break with his past personas and starts making the weirdest and arguably the best music of his career, reinventing himself as an exponent of synth-based art rock with the influential Low. TRACKS 1. Speed of … Continue reading →

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Station to Station (1976)

Posted on January 30, 2024 by the press music reviews

By 1976, Bowie was living on nervous energy. Driven to the brink of self-destruction having developed a chronic cocaine habit and dabbling in the secrets of the dark arts, he took to the studio and emerged with the icy Station … Continue reading →

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Bowie – Deep Cuts Pt.3

Posted on January 5, 2023 by the press music reviews

Continuing the Bowie Deep Cuts series, Part 3 reveals alternative mixes, unearthed demos, live versions, and album tracks, finding the artist stretching out, yielding some interesting results. David Bowie – Deep Cuts Pt.3 mp3 TRACKS 1. Right On Mother – Recorded … Continue reading →

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Adrian Belew Meets David Bowie

Posted on August 24, 2021 by the press music reviews

Guitarist par excellence Adrian Belew was discovered by Frank Zappa in a small club in Nashville, only to be poached by David Bowie for a globe-straddling tour. The Press has the lowdown. The extraordinarily inventive Belew caught the eye of … Continue reading →

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Didn’t Know It Was A Cover | David Bowie’s Red Sails

Posted on April 25, 2021 by the press music reviews

David Bowie – Red Sails Bowie was dabbling in German rock as early as Diamond Dogs’ Sweet Thing (reprise), and he clearly loved the likes of Kraftwerk, but his music was far more influenced by the Köln rhythms of Neu!, … Continue reading →

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Neu! – E-Musik

Posted on February 26, 2021 by the press music reviews

A visionary band in the process of maturation or an old band that has become new to us? Neu was a German krautrock band formed in Düsseldorf in 1971 by ex-Kraftwerk members Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother. While little known … Continue reading →

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