{"id":8107,"date":"2017-01-15T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2017-01-16T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:49:20","slug":"low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/15\/low\/","title":{"rendered":"Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2017\/01\/david-bowie-concept-album-low\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Observer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>How David Bowie Perfected the Concept Album on \u2018Low\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><a title=\"View All Posts by Ron Hart\" href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/author\/ron-hart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Ron Hart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"How David Bowie Perfected the Concept Album on Low\" src=\"https:\/\/nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/david-bowie-21.jpg\" alt=\"David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth.\" width=\"480\" \/><em>David Bowie in\u00a0<\/em>The Man Who Fell to Earth<em>.\u00a0<span class=\"media-credit\">YouTube<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been said the beginning\u00a0of Kosmische Musik\u2014the hypnotic, minimalist style of music crudely dubbed \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2015\/07\/8-krautrock-artists-you-need-to-hear-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">Krautrock<\/a>\u201d by the British press in the late \u201960s\u2014lies in the wake of World War II. The trance-like atmosphere and sterilized rhythms were the result of a sound designed to mirror the shell shock that fell over Germany\u00a0after the demise of\u00a0the Third Reich as well as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schlager_music\" target=\"_blank\">Schlager<\/a>\u00a0pop music deemed appropriate for public consumption by the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were not too many ways for a German rock musician to perform music, to make music, even to think of the theoretical development of music because there was no heritage in the country,\u201d explains the late Edgar Froese of the groundbreaking electronic outfit Tangerine Dream in the BBC documentary\u00a0<em>Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the Germans were in a very bad situation. You couldn\u2019t forget that. I mean, they were so stupid and guilty for it, to start two wars. As horrific as it was it had one, forgive me to say that, one positive point. There was nothing else to lose. They lost everything. And so, when we thought about doing music in a different form, there was only the free form, the abstract form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, when David Bowie began exploring this new music coming out of Germany from groups like Tangerine Dream and Cluster and Kraftwerk, he was coming under fire for some of the things he was saying while under his Thin White Duke persona in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2017\/01\/david-bowie-concept-album-low\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Observer How David Bowie Perfected the Concept Album on \u2018Low\u2019 Ron Hart David Bowie in\u00a0The Man Who Fell to Earth.\u00a0YouTube It\u2019s been said the beginning\u00a0of Kosmische Musik\u2014the hypnotic, minimalist style of music crudely dubbed \u201cKrautrock\u201d by the British press in the late \u201960s\u2014lies in the wake of World War II. The trance-like atmosphere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}