Then comes a solo part turning on the four bass bars. Look also from bar 50 the part evolves with the arrival of triads to reinforce the crescendo. Then at the letter C the gimmick starts again but this time I integrated the guitar rhythm on 2 and 4 beats when the Sax phrase allows it. Bowie sings an E flat on a C chord (blue note). Let yourself be hypnotized by this music with its twilight lyrics. Repetitive and always slightly different.Īt the letter B a kind of bridge begins with a rhythmic release (only half note in the right hand and the stop of the bass line) but with a very bluesy tension in the voice. It’s quite remarkable when you go into detail, which the score allows. No two phrases are really identical in rhythm.
I have noted very precisely Bowie’s vocal part with its very particular timing. If the bass is repetitive, the sax part, even if it is rhythmically identical, doesn’t stop changing its harmonization. The right hand plays the sax part, very simple, in quater and half notes but look at the placement, the phrase starts on the 3rd beat of the bar. Work on it then you can also find your own fills to break the linearity of the pattern. The little fill that we find on the last beat of the F chord (bars 2 and 4) is not easy to fingering on the Stick (with the fifth tuning). Take the time to work on them as they make up 80% of the song. Then the four bars of the bass riff come in. The song starts with an intro where the melodic block plays a continuous sixteenth note pattern (surely played in the high notes from the bass to the pick in the original version). The track, based mainly on two single chords (A minor and F), is built around a powerful and hypnotic bass riff played by Tim Lefebvre. My adaptation for the Stick takes up this riff played on the bass block and the right hand will take up the saxophone patterns in response to the vocal. On this one he surrounds himself with the new wave of New York jazz musicians, including Brad Meldhau’s drummer Mark Guilana, and finds his faithful producer Tony Visconti. Faithful to his enigmatic character, he hid from everyone, even his musicians, the seriousness of his condition as if to stage his departure 2 days after the worldwide publication of the album. ‘Lazarus’, the song title, is a biblical figure that rose from the death, like Bowie in this song speaking to us from the death.Title released on David Bowie’s twenty-sixth and last studio album released in January 2016 a few days before his death Lazarus is a prophetic song where Bowie speaks between the lines of his coming end. With this album and this song, he turned his death into art, to match his life as David Bowie.īowie’s death is the key to understanding this song. Bowie knew he was dying when he wrote this song. Until everything became clear when Bowie died and everybody found out that he was diagnosed with cancer 18 months before. On the album release, this song seemed just to be another enigmatic artwork of Bowie, maybe a new faze that he was going through. His passing came as a big shock for almost everyone, because Bowie did only tell a select group of people about his condition and kept it out of publicity. Only two days later, 10 January 2016, Bowie died from cancer. On 8 January 2016, Bowie’s 69th birthday, the album 'Blackstar' was released. To understand these lyrics you will have to see them in context of his death. My InterpretationThis song is, along with the rest of the album 'Blackstar', the final piece of art of David Bowie. Do you think Bowie knew that Elvis recorded a song in 1960 titled "Black Star"? The first verse: It is the first one that doesn't feature Bowie's image on the cover art. It's over.īlackstar is Bowie's 27th studio album. Once finished with his final composition, he stands and slowly but knowingly, retreats backwards and steps into the closet from which death entered. We see the little reaper girl occasionally, apparently allowing him some time to wrap things up. He sits and begins writing a note or letter.
He's reviewing memories and important moments from his life.
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We next seen him free of bandages, up and on his feet, looking a little better and bright eyed. The levitation might also symbolize entering a state in between life to beyond. As she reaches for him, Bowie levitates in the bed. The ghostly girl who comes out of the closet and crawls under the bed is something of a grim reaper. It's symbolic of a weakened, end of life condition. He appears in a hospital bed, blindfolded with button eyes. Tony Visconti, producer for Bowie's final album Blackstarīowie is saying goodbye to us in the video for "Lazarus". My Interpretation"His death was no different from his life - a work of Art."
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