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Artist..: David Bowie
Album...: Heroes
GENRE....: Rock
STYLE....: Electronic, Experimental, Ambient
LABEL....: EMI SCENE.....: 2015-01-05
BITRATE..: 826 kbps avg STORE.....: 1991-00-00
ENCODER..: FLAC 1.2.1 -8 -V TRACKS....: 12
SIZE.....: 277.6MB SOURCE....: CD
URL..: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Heroes%22
- TRACKLIST
1 Beauty And The Beast 3:36
2 Joe The Lion 3:07
3 "Heroes" 6:10
4 Sons Of The Silent Age 3:19
5 Blackout 3:50
6 V-2 Schneider 3:11
7 Sense Of Doubt 3:57
8 Moss Garden 5:04
9 Neuk÷ln 4:34
10 The Secret Life Of Arabia 3:47
11 Abdulmajid (Previously Unreleased 3:36
Track Recorded 1976-79) (Bonus Track)
12 Joe The Lion (Remixed Version, 1991) 3:08
(Bonus Track)
Total Playtime: 47:19
http://www.discogs.com/David-Bowie-Heroes/release/4657788
Re-issue of the 1977 original. Tracks 11 and 12 did not appear
on the original.
'Abdulmajid' was previously unreleased and recorded between 1976-1979.
It was mixed in 1991.
Mastered By [Digital] - Jonathan Wyner, Dr. Toby Mountain
Recorded at Hansa by the Wall, Berlin.
Mixed at Mountain Studios, Montreux.
Digitally mastered at Northeast Digital Recording.
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By Bart Testa - January 12, 1978
Heroes is the second album in what we can now hope will be a series of David
Bowie-Brian Eno collaborations, because this album answers the question of
whether Bowie can be a real collaborator. Like his work with Lou Reed, Mott
the Hoople and Iggy Pop, Low, Bowie's first album with Eno, seemed to be just
another auteurist exploitation, this time of the Eno-Kraftwerk avant-garde.
Heroes, though, prompts a much more enthusiastic reading of the
collaboration, which here takes the form of a union of Bowie's dramatic
instincts and Eno's unshakable sonic serenity. Even more importantly, Bowie
shows himself for the first time as a willing, even anxious, student rather
than a simple cribber. As rock's Zen master, Eno is fully prepared to show
him the way.
Like Low, Heroes is divided into a cyclic instrumental side and a song-set
side. "V-2 Schneider" is an ingeniously robotic recasting of Booker T. and
the M.G.'sùat once typical of Bowie's obsession with pop dance music and a
spectacular instance of an Eno R&B "study" (a going concern of Eno's own
records). "Sense of Doubt" lines up an ominously deep piano figure with Eno
synthesizer washes, blending them into "Moss Garden," an exquisitely static
cut featuring Bowie on koto, a Japanese string instrument. Low had no such
moments of easy exchange; Bowie either submitted his voice as another
instrument for Eno or he pressed Eno to play the part of art-rock keyboard
player.
The most spectacular moments on this record occur on the vocal side's crazed
rock & roll. Working inside the new style Bowie forged for Iggy Pop, "Beauty
and the Beast" makes very weird but probable connections between the fairy
tale, Iggy's angel-beast identity and Jean Cocteau's Surrealist Catholicism,
a crucial source for Cocteau's film of the tale.
For the finale, Heroes explodes into a trilogy of dark prophecy: "Sons of the
Silent Age," "Heroes" and "Black Out." It's a Diamond Dogs set that, this
time, makes it into the back pages of Samuel Delaney's post-apocalypse
fiction, pushed by a brilliant cerebral nova among the players. Bowie sings
in a paradoxical (or is it schizo?) style at once unhinged and wholly
self-controlled. With a chill, the listener can hear clearly through Bowie's
compressed lyrics and the dense sound.
We'll have to wait to see if Bowie has found in the austere Eno a long-term
collaborator who can draw out the substantial words and music that have
lurked beneath the surface of Bowie's clever games for so long. But Eno
clearly has effected a nearly miraculous change in Bowie already.
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