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Black star
The sudden death of David Bowie, an asteroid collapsed two days after the release of his new Blackstar album, gave this plate more meanings than it was even supposed to be its author. The mysterious “Blackstar” , the music, texts and symbols of which can be deciphered as a rosette stone , is now perceived only as the Farewell record of the demiurge - its will, its requiem. However, this is not so. On Blackstar, the Great Briton does not say goodbye to his listeners - despite the apocalyptic beginning of the album, gloomy clouds are scattered to his code, on the final “I canon EVERYTHINGAYA” , the pulse returns to Lazarus “like a prodigal son”, Bowy's voice soars from cold darkness into a life -giving light. The previous album “The Next Day” , which closes the eschatological ballad “Heat” , sounds a few orders of magnitude more painful and mourning .
Colleagues and friends who communicated with Bowie - Tony Visconti, Brian Ino - confirm: Master Metamorphosis was not going to go into the coffin after Blackstar , he prepared new songs (the drafts of which we may be heard soon) and was even going to finish the continuation of the underestimated album “1.utside” . But death ordered differently. The bony lady was one of David Bowie's favorite heroines, who willingly killed the characters born of his fantasy, from Ziggi Stardast and Major Tom to 14-year-old crumbs Grace Blue. His turn came to droop under her terrible dud and become an actor in the play so compiled to her.
“Blackstar” is difficult to analyze, having removed from the life and death of David Bowie - a singer, an artist and a visionary, who largely determined our world with his work. Yes, probably, it is not necessary: the details of the artist’s biography can also be a work of art, and if the great actors die on the stage, as, in essence, happened with Bowie, the news of the death of which came at the moment when thousands of people in the headphones sounded new songs, which means that someone needs it. It’s better to talk about David Bowie’s music, which for some reason is often forgotten, distracted by his fantastic images-on revolutionary hairstyles, makeup, costumes, fur coats, video clips and roles in the cinema. But first of all, Bowie was a forward -looking musician - one of the best authors of songs in the XX and XXI centuries, which, moreover, is appropriate for genuine musical geniuses, with age only became stronger and stronger.
“Blackstar” is a very adult plate that does not hide its wrinkles and is even proud of them.
The main mystery of “Blackstar” is still the same trick done by Bowie many times in half a century of his career: how to change beyond recognition, remaining the same as he was. The new, first shocking sound of the album, which is a hybrid of postbop, fan, rock, rock and breikbit, is grown according to a recipe repeatedly verified by an artist: these are invited virtuosos (jazz) - sagsophonist Donny Maccaslin and drummer Mark Jiliana, invariable producer of Tony Visconti, their own vision and iron dictatorial will, which allows you to achieve the joint work of the bright individuals of one hundred percent “Bowy” result. Blackstar constantly changing the echoes of the previous Bowie records: first of all, albums of the 1990s-noir experiments with “1.utside” , jazz post-nu-Weiva with “Black Tie, White Noise” and Dzhanl with “Earthling” . David Bowie puts several Easter eggs in a black box of Blackstar for his loyal fans - for example, in an inlaid fashion percussion from James Murphy (LCD SoundSystem) Loves Me ” he goes astray from the“ Clothing Orange ”: this film once inspired a 24-year-old singer to create the plate “ The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ” . Despite the brightly manifested musical genetics, despite the auto -style and game with self -stitches typical of Bowie, Blackstar sounds excitingly whole and fresh. It seems that the singer still managed to mentally return to the glorious Berlin 1970s, freed him from his own dependencies and stamps, which he dreamed of on the previous record “The Next Day” . It is also important to notice that Blackstar is a very adult plate that does not hide its wrinkles and even proud of them. Bowie is not trying to like Devotchk 'AM and Malchik ', which were born in the year when the singer has overlapped himself for the 10th time. To enter Blackstar , it would be nice to listen to the whole discography of the artist.
It is this mighty provenance, which cannot be neither to fake nor repeat, monolithic multi -layer and circumstances of the premiere, directed by death, make Blackstar not only the best album of David Bowie of the New Age (although neither Heathen , nor Reality , nor “The NEXT DAY” can be called bad), but also the last great) Album of this century. The album as an art object, as a separate genre of pop culture-the way that was invented by The Beatles , and personally Bowie brought to elegant perfection. We will no longer have such albums - we only remain hits for an hour, sets of tracks in digital stores and playlists in smartphones that will hastily crowd out each other from memory.
And on the magnificent pyramid of songs, left by David Bowie, who returned to heaven, the Black Star will be mysteriously flooded.