Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar, by Maya Beiser, Evan Ziporyn, Ambient Orchestra

Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar

by Maya Beiser, Evan Ziporyn, Ambient Orchestra

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1.	Blackstar 11:26	info	buy track
2.	'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore 04:41	info	buy track
3.	Lazarus 06:45	info	buy track
4.	Prelude to Sue 01:26	info	buy track
5.	Sue (or In A Season of Crime) 04:59	info	buy track
6.	Girl Loves Me 05:03		buy track
7.	Dollar Days 04:33	info	buy track
8.	I Can't Give Everything Away 06:44	info	buy track

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On January 8, 2016, his 69th birthday, David Bowie released “Blackstar”. He died two days later on January 10th. “Blackstar” was Bowie’s parting gift to the world, a self-eulogy, hinting at the sacred and reveling in the profane. Blackstar is a concept album, but the concept is unnamed, or is the Un-nameable itself: facing death, living in its shadow.

In this new album “Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar”, visionary cellist Maya Beiser and composer/conductor Evan Ziporyn honor Bowie and his influence. Immersing themselves in this astounding music, living inside it, embodying it. Bowie’s 4-octave vocal range matches the cello almost exactly, making it the perfect protagonist instrument. Beiser and Ziporyn re-create the entire album as a cello concerto, arranged by Ziporyn for Beiser as soloist.

Accompanied by the Ambient Orchestra, Maya Beiser transforms her cello; A vocalist one moment, a lead guitarist the next, she evokes David Bowie’s spirit while never ceasing to be herself. Even in these instrumental versions, the words and their meaning hover over the music, despite their absence, much like the ‘spirit’ figure in the first song: gone, but with a trace.

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released March 16, 2022

Maya Beiser, solo cello
Evan Ziporyn, conductor, arranger
Ambient Orchestra
Dave Cook, sound engineer
Produced by Maya Beiser & Evan Ziporyn
edited and mixed and Area 52 Sound

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