London,
UK - Drummer Dylan Howe, son of YES guitar legend Steve Howe, has recorded a
radical new take on the instrumental cuts from David Bowie's 1977 albums 'Low'
and 'Heroes'. 'Subterranean' is Dylan Howe’s first studio album in ten years.
It is made up of his arrangements of Bowie’s influential music from his ‘Berlin
Trilogy’ and has been seven years in the making. Some of the music featured on
this album was previewed live at the London Jazz festival in October 2007. This
is the completed album and is universally accepted as Howe’s strongest to date.
It features some of the best musicians in the UK with special guest Steve Howe
playing koto (‘Moss Garden’).
The
response to 'Subterranean' has been simply phenomenal; it has garnered
universal critical and popular acclaim from all corners of the globe with sales
to match. The CD is already in its third pressing with the double vinyl well
into its second.
David
Bowie recently sent a message to Dylan saying; 'That's a top-notch album you've
got there. Really.’ He requested a vinyl copy the following day.
Dylan
Howe: “This is the first of my albums on which I’ve really utilized the
potential of the recording studio, with multiple sessions and overdubs, really
thinking about production, I was making a record this time, not just recording
an album. In the past I would be in the studio for a day or two at the most, or
just bring a mobile studio to a gig; this time however, the process and result
has been a little like the music, kind of cinematic, a feeling of scale and
intensity; think the John Coltrane Quartet produced by Neu! mixed by Brian Eno
in an air-raid shelter.”
The
Guardian: ‘A superb player, inspiring and invigorating.’
London
Metro: ‘The thrilling, incisive drumming of Dylan Howe.’
Ronnie
Scott’s: ‘Rightly acclaimed as one of the best drummers of his generation.’
Shaun
Keaveny, BBC6 Music: ‘Dylan Howe on drums - just superb.’
Ian
Dury: ‘A funky little bastard.’
Jimmy
Page: ‘You’re playing beautifully.’
Dylan
Howe is a British drummer (born in 1969) best known for leading his quintet and
other jazz groups since 2002 and his tenures with Ian Dury and the Blockheads,
Steve Howe and Wilko Johnson, coupled with extensive session work since 1990,
playing with Nick Cave, Damon Albarn, Ray Davies, Paul McCartney, David
Gilmour, Beth Gibbons, Gabrielle, Hugh Cornwell and Andy Sheppard amongst
others.
Recently
Dylan played on the no.1 album 'Going Back Home' by Wilko Johnson and Roger
Daltrey, with sell-out shows at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire and Royal Albert
Hall.
This new
album (his sixth) is the natural progression from his acclaimed 2010 Stravinsky
adaptation 'The Rite Of Spring' for piano and drums and Blue Note styled hard
bop quintet albums Translation - Volumes 1 and 2.
Album
track list:
Subterraneans
/ Weeping Wall / All Saints / Some Are / Neuköln / Art Decade / Warszawa / Moss
Garden
Album
personnel:
Dylan
Howe – drums / synths
Ross
Stanley – piano / synths
Mark
Hodgson – double bass
Brandon
Allen – tenor saxophone
Julian
Siegel – tenor saxophone
Nick
Pini – bass
Adrian
Utley - guitar
Steve
Howe – koto
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