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アメリカでの生活に疲れたボウイは1976年ヨーロッパに帰還、マスコミを遠ざけるように壁の街ベルリンのスタジオにブライアン・イーノと共に閉じこもり、エキセントリックな傑作となるこのアルバムを製作した。ジャーマン・テクノ的なシンセサイザーを多用したサウンドが荒涼とした冷たく暗い雰囲気を作り出す独特の雰囲気の作品になった。アルバム前半においても詩は極力シンプルで少ないが、<8>以降は言葉さえ存在しないインストに突入。無国籍的というか異次元的でさえある圧倒的な世界が展開される。(麻路 稔)
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The first part of a loosely affiliated trilogy (Heroes and Lodger were to follow), Low is in part a synthesis of 1970's disco, funk and New Wave as well as a brave foray in to wordless electronic ambience. The opening salvo of songs and up-tempo instrumentals contains the single "Sound and Vision", which shudders under the archness of Bowie deadpan vocals. Elsewhere, Bowie inhabits the brilliantly starchy European funk of "Breaking Glass" and "Always Crashing in the Same Car". That Bowie found a like mind in the eternally innovative Brian Eno is no surprise; the success of the four instrumental pieces that close Low can be attributed in no small way to the production contributions of the ex- Roxy Music keyboard player turned ambient pioneer. Bowie and Eno's experiments in a Berlin recording studio would have a massive influence on the music of subsequent decades. For this reason alone, Low is an essential David Bowie album. --James Littlewood