Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. Author: Cindy Lou Johnson. THE STORY: The place is a remote cabin in the wilds of Alaska.
Brilliant Traces Full Of Colour
“It’s really hard to believe that they were written so long ago.”David Bowie: You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving – videoBut release was delayed and ultimately stymied, Bowie told fans in a webchat later that year, owing to scheduling conflicts and “major problems” at EMI/Virgin, “which has put an awful lot on the back burner”.In the meantime, Bowie started work on an “experimental” new album. The New Yorker.Bowie’s idea for his 23rd album took root in 1999, when he performed Can’t Help Thinking About Me for the first time in 30 years for an episode of VH1 Storytellers.Together with his band – Plati, Sterling Campbell, Gail Ann Dorsey, Earl Slick, Mike Garson, Holly Palmer, Emm Gryner, Lisa Germano, Gerry Leonard and Cuong Vu – the idea was to record “old school” with the musicians playing live, to make the most of the “show-honed” group Bowie had assembled for his 2000 Glastonbury headline set.“I still get really elated by the spontaneous event and cannot wait to sit in a claustrophobic space with seven other energetic people and sing till my tits drop off,” Bowie wrote in a tour diary for Time Out in 2000.They planned to “keep it loose, fast, and not clean things up too much or dwell on perfection”, Plati wrote on his blog, then to choose the best takes and release the album by surprise – an unfamiliar concept at the time.It marked the rekindling of Bowie’s relationship with longtime producer Tony Visconti – albeit as strings arranger – which had lain fairly dormant since Bowie asked Nile Rodgers to produce his 1983 album Let’s Dance.“The songs are so alive and full of colour, they jump out of the speakers,” Bowie told BowieNet in 2001. Recorded in Manhattan in 2000, Toy revisited songs including his debut single as Davie Jones With the King Bees, Liza Jane his third single, You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving and Silly Boy Blue from the eponymous 1967 David Bowie album.BRILLIANT TRACES is one of those plays in which a man and woman battle it out in a small enclosed space, alternately repulsing and seducing each other.
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