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DAVID BOWIE & REEVES GABREL David Bowie and Reeves Gabrel were in Bermuda when they
were approached to contribute a soundtrack to a new computer game, Omikron: The Nomad Soul. Designed by the same team that created
the mega-selling Tomb Raider, Omikron was a magnificent construct
in which the game itself was all but secondary to the situation in which it is
set, a vast cityscape whose attractions included Bowie and his band performing “live,”
especially for you. And this is what
they played, a clutch of songs that Bowie described as “music… [with] an
emotional subtext,” and an escape from the stereotypical electro-Industrial
clatter that accompanies most computer games.
Most of the material here will be familiar, albeit in
different form, to the songs that became the basis for Bowie’s next regular
album, the brilliant Hours: “New Angels of Promise” is a lot more aggressive,
for example; “Something In The Air” a step or two slower and more subdued, and
so on. These are interrupted
by a handful of cuts by one Xavier
Despas, the multi-part “A Journey” and the burbling “Save Your Soul,” but all
work well across the overall disc, and you should file The Nomad Soul alongside
your copy of Hours right away. Double
the delight of Bowie’s greatest latter-day album. - Dave
Thompson
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