David Bowie – Low (UK, 1st Pressing)

Name: David Bowie - Low (UK, 1st Pressing)
Brand: David Bowie
SKU: 1799184271
Availability: InStock

€299,99

Super rare first UK pressing.

Initial copies (this one)included a small black and white pamphlet advertising the official David Bowie Fan Club and back catalog.
The generic white die-cut inner sleeve of the Variant 1 shows printer run date 12/76. Copies also exist with a printer run date of 11-76 upon initial release.

Following through with the avant-garde inclinations of Station to Station, yet explicitly breaking with David Bowie‘s past, Low is a dense, challenging album that confirmed his place at rock’s cutting edge. Driven by dissonant synthesizers and electronics, Low is divided between brief, angular songs and atmospheric instrumentals. Throughout the record’s first half, the guitars are jagged and the synthesizers drone with a menacing robotic pulse, while Bowie‘s vocals are unnaturally layered and overdubbed. During the instrumental half, the electronics turn cool, which is a relief after the intensity of the preceding avant pop. Half the credit for Low‘s success goes to Brian Eno, who explored similar ambient territory on his own releases. Eno functioned as a conduit for Bowie‘s ideas, and in turn Bowie made the experimentalism of not only Eno but of the German synth group Kraftwerk and the post-punk group Wire respectable, if not quite mainstream. Though a handful of the vocal pieces on Low are accessible — “Sound and Vision” has a shimmering guitar hook, and “Be My Wife” subverts soul structure in a surprisingly catchy fashion — the record is defiantly experimental and dense with detail, providing a new direction for the avant-garde in rock & roll.

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SKU: 1799184271 Categories: First Pressing, Rare & Collectable, Rock & Roll Tag: David Bowie

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RCA Victor PL 12030 LP, Stereo Album UK 1977-01-14

Side 1.

1. Speed Of Life
2. Breaking Glass
3. What In The World
4. Sound And Vision
5. Always Crashing In The Same Car
6. Be My Wife
7. A New Career In A New Town

Side 2.

1. Warszawa
2. Art Decade
3. Weeping Wall
4. Subterraneans

Credits:

Producer – Tony Visconti
Producer – David Bowie
Piano – Roy Young
Piano – David Bowie
Percussion – Dennis Davis
Guitar – Ricky Gardiner
Guitar – David Bowie
Composed By – George Murray
Composed By – Dennis Davis
Composed By – David Bowie
Composed By – Brian Eno
Bass – George Murray
Rhythm Guitar – Carlos Alomar
Arranged By – David Bowie
Arranged By – Brian Eno
Rhythm Guitar – Ricky Gardiner
Synthesizer – Brian Eno

Media Condition: Mint- (M-)
Sleeve Condition: Mint- (M-)

Issued with a 12″ paper insert with credits; most copies with an orange sticker with the track list on rear cover.

Published by:
A1 to A6, B4 Bewlay Bros. S.A.R.L./Fleur Music.
B1 Bewlay Bros. S.A.R.L./Fleur Music/E.G. Music Ltd.
A7, B2, B3 Bewlay Bros. S.A.R.L./Chrysalis Music Ltd./Fleur Music.

Recorded at The Chateau and Hansa By The Wall.
Mixed at Hansa By The Wall.
Cover photo from ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’, a Cinema 5 release.

(CPL1 2030) appears as a reference on labels only.

Initial copies included a small black and white pamphlet advertising the official David Bowie Fan Club and back catalogue.
Generic white die-cut inner sleeve of the Variant 1 shows printer run date 12/76. Copies also exist with printer run date of 11-76 upon initial release.
NB. The sticker shown in the photos here “Featuring the hit single Sound and Vision”, would not have appeared on initial copies and not until at least later in February when the single was released and charted in the UK).

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