“Howe Low can you go?”*
This coming Sunday Dylan Howe will be performing his Subterraneans set in Berlin, appropriately enough.
We told you all about his album, SUBTERRANEAN – New Designs On Bowie’s Berlin, and the accompanying shows last year.
Keep reading for the official blurb or go directly to the relevant Berliner Festspiele page to purchase tickets.
Dylan Howe’s Subterraneans – Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg – SUN 08 NOV 2015, 16:00
DYLAN HOWE drums
DAVE WHITFORD double bass
ROSS STANLEY piano
STEVE LODDER synthesizers
JAMES ALLSOPP tenor saxophone
With projection
David Bowie moved to Berlin at the end of 1976, living in an apartment in Schöneberg and working with Brian Eno on music that would force the world to reassess his reputation. The albums “Low” and “Heroes” contained several atmospheric instrumental pieces, such as “Neuköln”, “Moss Garden” and “Warszawa”. Now the British drummer and bandleader Dylan Howe (born in 1969) has taken these pieces and rearranged them for his quintet, transforming them into tone-poems that establish a stimulating environment for improvisation. Howe’s album recently received the accolade – still rare for a European musician – of a five-star review in “DownBeat” magazine, whose reviewer praised what he called its “beautiful, shape-shifting and at times eerie” music.
*OK, so today’s lyric quotation was stretching things somewhat. The line is from Bob & Earl’s Harlem Shuffle, a song covered live by David Bowie & The Buzz in 1966.
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