David Bowie – Low Free Shipping

2017 Remastered Version. The first of Bowie’s legendary Berlin trilogyand the one that broke the most ground. It also caused so muchconsternation in the NME offices that they ran two reviews, one praisingit to the skies, the other bewildered by Bowie’s move towards thechilly electronic sounds that bore the influence of krautrock,particularly that of Kraftwerk and Neu! Collaborating with Brian Eno andproduced by the genius Tony Visconti, Low is an album of twodistinct halves. Side one ( in old money) is full of quirky oddball popvignettes, the highlight being the incredible Sound and Vision, ahit for Bowie in 1977. Side two was the side which upset some people,four long icy instrumentals evoking the spirit of the city of Berlin,split into two halves by the wall, and the mood of the eastern bloc ingeneral (see Warszawa). Now, of course, these tracks are seen as ablueprint for much that was to come over the following decade, and evenfurter, but at the time, it so so surprising and so groundbreaking thatmany didn’t know what to make of it.