Union Chapel, London, 17th January 2016
This David Bowie song has been recorded in the studio by David McAlmont and Clifford Slapper for the forthcoming album, BOWIESONGS1.

www.bowiesongs.com

"Clifford Slapper has been playing David Bowie music for many years in England. He has accompanied many singers doing David Bowie music. His love for his music is very obvious. His new CD, with many excellent singers each singing one of David’s songs, is very potent. Cliff plays very well, and it is a heartfelt recording."
MIKE GARSON, pianist on 20 Bowie albums and 9 world tours

Bowiesongs1 is an album which brings together 10 very different singers, all with a common passion for the songs of David Bowie. Each will sing a different Bowie song accompanied purely by piano. It is completely acoustic and unplugged.

Each song is recorded in the studio as a live take without overdubs, other instruments or special effects. This is a huge challenge, but also allows us to strip bare these great songs, to get to their emotional heart, and hear the genius of Bowie’s songwriting. This makes this album unusual, unique and different from the many tributes which have been appearing since the tragic and shocking news of David Bowie’s passing on 10th January. In fact, some of the tracks were already recorded before then. It was decided to continue with the work. It was always a labour of love, but has now become also a homage to a lost hero.

All of the singers have great credentials to be working on such a project. For example, Des de Moor produced his own album of acoustic Bowie songs several years ago, Darkness & Disgrace, of which David Bowie himself said: “To hear these songs in such a personalised context is a real ear-opener. I listened as though someone else had written them.” And in 2006, Clifford Slapper played piano for Bowie on his last ever television appearance, and Bowie producer, Tony Visconti, has written: “I really loved your piano. Reminded me of Nicky Hopkins and Leon Russell”

Katherine Ellis sang on the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning film Gravity and has had hits with The Freemasons and Roger Sanchez. Billie Ray Martin is famous for her work with Electribe 101 right through to the Opiates and her vast solo output including the world-wide hit, Your Loving Arms. Marcella Puppini is a highly respected musician and founder of the Puppini Sisters but also a prolific songwriter with a new solo project of electro-swing. David McAlmont famously had the beautiful 1995 hit “Yes” with Bernard Butler. The Melody Maker said of him “one day he will open his mouth and a cathedral will fall out”. The album is being mastered by Pete Maher ((U2, The Killers, Jack White, Noel Gallagher, The Rolling Stones, Lana Del Rey).

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