Now here's a treat for a Saturday morning . . . . . . over at Big O the guys have unearthed the forerunner to the Bowie / Eno collaboration 'OUTSIDE' which I have mentioned before fascinates me for I missed it first time around but this is even more exciting in that as Big O sources explain it goes to explain what happened prior to 'Outside' with 'The Leon Suites'
Paperdragon, Bowie Station:I talked to one of the musicians who is on this and got a more complete story. First, these aren’t outtakes at all and, second, they weren’t initially intended to be a Bowie album. The idea was to form a sort of supergroup behind Bowie and Eno, and record an album as a one-off project for that group. This is essentially that album. So what we have here is a fully-realized concept album for a group that never came into existence.It was then presented to the record company, who as we all know rejected it as “uncommercial.” After that, Bowie used parts of it as the basis for an entirely new project, which became 1.Outside. So, had this been released, Outside would have never happened. So, rather than this being outtakes from Outside, it’s actually more true that Outside was based on outtakes from The Leon Suites, an album in its own right.+ + + + +Thanks to jallaweb (Jan Erik) for sharing the show at Dime.Thanks also to Learm for the artworkjallaweb noted:These demos were recorded and rejected by the record company in 1994. The Leon Suites eventually turned into the 1.Outside album released in 1995. Parts of the three suites have been available on earlier bootleg releases but all of them have been sourced from low bitrate MP3s. This is the first release of the complete Leon Suit in a lossless version. The source of this recording is a CDR provided by Adam Bedstroke (patdrome). A lot of thanks goes out to him for letting these demos be shared amongst fans.
Bowie Station production 2016
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