One of David Bowie's lesser known albums 'The Buddha of Suburbia' is about to be reissued.
While the album never caught on with fans in its day, it is one of Bowie's personal favourites. "This album may well have been one of the most enjoyable projects that I've been involved with," he said in a statement. "My personal memory stock for this album was made up from an almighty plethora of influences and reminiscences from the 1970s."The 1993 album was Bowie's 19th release. He recorded the album, not as a soundtrack, but as a complement to the BBC series of the same name. Only the title track from the album was ever used in the TV show.
According to the Bowie media release "The Buddha of Suburbia is a semi-autobiographical tale featuring Karim, a South London teenager desperate to escape the suburbs which confine him. When the novel was published, author Kureishi was already well-known for his screenplay for My Beautiful Launderette, the 1985 film which centered on issues of sexuality, race and class in volatile 1980s Britain".
Of the album, Bowie says "The pace of work was unbelievably frenetic taking only 6 days to write and record though a full fifteen days to mix, owing in part to some technical breakdowns - nothing too serious but enough to put our team out by five or six days. My personal memory stock for this album was made up from an almighty plethora of influences and reminiscences from the 1970's".
The album will be re-issued on October 2nd.
DAVID BOWIE: THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA
1. Buddha Of Suburbia (4:28)
2. Sex And The Church (6:25)
3. South Horizon (5:26)
4. The Mysteries (7:12)
5. Bleed Like A Craze, Dad (5:22)
6. Strangers When We Meet (4:58)
7. Dead Against It (5:48)
8. Untitled No. 1 (5:01)
9. Ian Fish, U.K. Heir (6:27)
10. Buddha Of Suburbia (4:19) (featuring Lenny Kravitz on guitar)
