MUSIC
WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 - 19, 2018
7:30 PM

Winter Garden
230 Vesey Street, Brookfield Place, Manhattan

Free
https://www.artsbrookfield.com/event/new-sounds-live-david-bowies-berlin-trilogy/

David Bowie was one of those figures who manage to be both somewhat overrated and pretty great.  Take what may be Bowie's highest achievement, the trio of albums known as the Berlin Trilogy.  They deserve every bit of their renown -- but still, the music made around the same time by Bowie's collaborator Brian Eno remains distinctly superior, if less well known.  These three shows will explore that circumstance, each pairing arrangements of the songs from one of the three albums (in reverse chronological order:  Lodger on Wednesday, "Heroes" [the best of the three, to my mind] on Thursday, Low on Friday) with arrangements of music by influences Eno and Berliner electronicist Klaus Schulze.  What's more, the music will be played by such luminaries as former Bowie guitarist Carlos Alomar, composer/pianist Timo Andres, and members of Deerhoof, Dirty Projectors, Xiu Xiu, Battle Trance, and, leading the band, Shearwater -- as well as some NYC New Music regulars.  We can be heroes, just for three days.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Brooklyn's Holy Ground barbecue pop-up has a rather fancy new brick-and-mortar flagship in Tribeca.