5.ĭonny McCaslin, “Eye of the Beholder” (2018)īeyond Now, McCaslin’s first solo album after Blackstar, had two Bowie covers. I’m sure I’m not thinking of something, but still, come at me, bro.) 4.Įckroth’s album was produced by Blackstar bassist Tim Lefebvre (her husband) and also includes a cover of Bowie’s “ Love Is Lost”. (Hot take: the hand claps might be the snazziest hand claps in any song ever. But I’m including the original version here, so that we get to hear Blackstar drummer Mark Guiliana do his simple, perfect, ridiculously jaunty drum part. This Jeff Taylor song is also on the van Dijk album and is one of my favorite tracks from it. The album’s first half features the songs and voice of Jeff Taylor. My favorite album of the year by far was The Stereography Project, which is based on the music of two indie singer/songwriters, rearranged and reinterpreted for jazz orchestra by van Dijk. It’s been almost 20 years since I first watched it in the theatre, but happy to report the movie still holds up. So, I’m sprinkling some Ghost Dog vibes throughout. RZA, “Opening Theme (Raise Your Sword)” (1999) So, even though this is the first one of these year-end mixtapes not to include any of his music (not even the odd cover version), he still hangs over almost everything here.īut anyway, first up, some pre-millennium, NYC samurai/hitman jams… 1. I thought it was the beginning of something when it turned out to be the end.īut unlike before, now that he really, truly is gone, he’s never too far from my mind. As one reviewer personified it, this was “Prospero-Lear Bowie, the old man rising to prove he still had command of his magicks, and to roar against the onrushing void”. One forgettable album followed another until he faded away altogether, almost without me noticing.Īnd then he was suddenly back again. For a big chunk of me being a grownup - basically, from 2000 on - it was like he didn’t exist. IT’S BEEN THREE YEARS since Bowie left the world and the world began to fall apart (a notion that began as a quip on Twitter, but which becomes less funny, and more true, as the years go by and the evidence only grows).īut it’s not the first time he disappeared.
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