Bowiesongs.com Website Review

mike garson on bowie songs one: 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. harry maslin, producer of david bowie's station to station album (including original recording of stay) & producer of david bowie's. #1 usa hit fame, says: clifford slapper, a stellar pianist and long time contributor to the perpetuation of the music of david bowie, has. created an album of bowie music that is meant to focus the listener primarily on the lyric or poetry of the original songs, to give the. bowie fan a new vision of some of his masterpieces. i thoroughly enjoyed listening to clifford and his friends, and i am pleased to. year. several of the songs were already recorded before we were hit by the shocking news of david bowie's pas*ing in january of this year. it was always a labour of love from a life-long fan and fellow enthusiasts, but it is now also an homage to a lost hero. unlike other albums of bowie songs this is pure, unplugged, acoustic - and very powerful. jarvis co*ker, lisa stansfield, stereo mcs, alabama 3, suggs, angie brown, gary kemp and many others. always inspired throughout his career by the work of david bowie, slapper worked closely with bowie as pianist on his last ever television appearance, in 2006. since early in 2015 he has been working on producing an album of acoustic covers of bowie songs arranged by him purely for voice and piano. these unplugged interpretations get to the heart of bowie’s masterpiece songs through st*ipping them down and laying bare the emotion in them, like modern torch songs. on the album he accompanies on piano about ten varied but stunning singers, each reinterpreting a all piano on the album is played by clifford slapper. this is what has been said about his playing: