{"id":25506,"date":"2016-02-05T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25506"},"modified":"2016-02-05T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T21:26:16","slug":"check-out-amanda-palmer-jherek-bischoffs-ep-homage-to-david-bowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-02\/check-out-amanda-palmer-jherek-bischoffs-ep-homage-to-david-bowie\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Amanda Palmer &#038; Jherek Bischoff&#8217;s EP Homage to David Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bowie-AFP-COVER-option-2-EDIT.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25509\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-25509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bowie-AFP-COVER-option-2-EDIT-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bowie-AFP-COVER-option-2-EDIT\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bowie-AFP-COVER-option-2-EDIT-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bowie-AFP-COVER-option-2-EDIT-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bowie-AFP-COVER-option-2-EDIT-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bowie-AFP-COVER-option-2-EDIT-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The controversial, but uncontroversally-talented <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amandapalmer.net\/\">Amanda Palmer<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>has collaborated with <strong>Jherek Bischoff\u00a0<\/strong>to release a heartfelt, string-laden EP homage to the late, great(est)\u00a0<strong>David Bowie<\/strong>. \u00a0The EP,\u00a0entitled <em><strong>Strung Out In Heaven: A Bowie String Quartet Tribute<\/strong>, <\/em>consists of six covers <strong>Bowie&#8217;s<\/strong> songs and features contributions from <strong>Anna Calvi, John Cameron Mitchell, <\/strong>and author<strong> Neil Gaiman <\/strong>(<strong>Palmer&#8217;s <\/strong>husband), among others. \u00a0It was released today via Bandcamp for $1 and you can check it out and buy it (proceeds to good causes) at bottom. \u00a0Our favorite <strong>Bowie<\/strong> song and cover from the EP is <em><strong>Ashes to Ashes<\/strong><\/em>, which you can listen to immediately below followed by <strong>Palmer&#8217;s<\/strong> explique for the EP.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IFTzh_KtE4Q\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>About the EP and recording, <strong>Palmer<\/strong> writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found out he\u2019d died \u2013 by text from Neil\u2019s daughter \u2013 at 3 a.m. in Santa Fe. \u00a0We were visiting family, to introduce them to the newborn lying in bed beside us. A tiny fleshy reminder that Bowie, like our other friends, mentors \u00a0and heroes who\u2019ve been consumed by cancer in the past few months, was just\u2026passing through. The baby is Ash. Dust to dust. Funk to Funky.\u00a0I was talking on the phone to Jherek the next day talking about our arrangement for \u201cmachete\u201d, the song we\u2019d just tracked in LA.\u00a0Bowie meant so much to both of us, growing up. and i knew that if we didn\u2019t do this NOW, we\u2019d say it was a good idea and then find a million\u00a0reasons not to get around to it.\u00a0We gave ourselves a deadline of two weeks. We made it.\u00a0Jherek put the petal to the metal, arranged a song a day, recorded his A-list string quartet in L.A. in 3.5 hours, then I spent two straight days in the studio doing vocals.\u00a0It was the longest time yet i\u2019d been away from the baby.\u00a0My mom took care of him one day, a babysitter the next, and Neil took the night shifts.\u00a0I\u2019m back at work. It feels right.\u00a0We\u2019re really, really, really proud of what we made, even though we cranked it out in a short time.\u00a0Music is the binding agent of our mundane lives. It cements the moments in which we wash the dishes, type the resumes, go to the funerals, have the babies. The stronger the agent, the tougher the memory, and Bowie was NASA-grade epoxy to a sprawling span of freaked-out kids over three generations. He bonded us to our weird selves. We can be us. He said. Just for one day.\u00a0It didn\u2019t hit me until a week later, in the studio, why this was such a fitting project. We were immersing ourselves in Bowieland, living in the songs, super-glueing up some fresh wounds. Not just \u201cknowing\u201d the songs, but feeling the physical chords under our sad fingers, excavating the deeper architecture of the songwriting (especially with a tune as bizarre as \u201cBlackstar\u201d (which we realized was constructed like a sonic Russian nesting doll).\u00a0Bowie worked on music up to the end to give us a parting gift. So this is how we, as musicians, mourn: keeping Bowie constantly in our ears and brains.\u00a0The man, the artist, exits. But the music, the glue; it stays.\u00a0It never stops binding us together.<\/p>\n<div>Goodbye, Starman.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We love you.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/amandapalmer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-02-at-9.09.19-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"897\" height=\"16\" \/><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4116713620\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amandapalmer.bandcamp.com\/album\/strung-out-in-heaven-a-bowie-string-quartet-tribute\">Strung Out In Heaven: A Bowie String Quartet Tribute by Jherek Bischoff and Amanda Palmer<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial, but uncontroversally-talented Amanda Palmer\u00a0has collaborated with Jherek Bischoff\u00a0to release a heartfelt, string-laden EP homage to the late, great(est)\u00a0David Bowie. \u00a0The EP,\u00a0entitled Strung Out In Heaven: A Bowie String Quartet Tribute, consists of six covers Bowie&#8217;s songs and features contributions from Anna Calvi, John Cameron Mitchell, and author Neil Gaiman (Palmer&#8217;s husband), among others. 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