{"id":806,"date":"2016-09-11T01:50:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberbird.com\/blog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2016-09-28T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T02:37:07","slug":"strangers-when-and-if-we-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amberbird.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/11\/strangers-when-and-if-we-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangers When (and If) We Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you very likely know, the world lost the incredible David Bowie in January of this year. Soon after, Will Brooker asked if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to put together a cover of a Bowie song with him to use over the credits of a documentary he was making about research he did whilst writing his book on Bowie (due out January 2017). Please head over to <a href=\"https:\/\/foreverstardust.com\/\">Forever Stardust<\/a> to learn more about that. The book and the documentary should be quite good if his previous works are any indication.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to say a few words about this project, especially given I know some of us felt like touching a Bowie song was stepping on hallowed ground. Did we dare? Eventually, obviously, we did. And we can only hope that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get lumped in with all those covers we heard come out the last 8 months (it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 8 months and 1 day now since we lost Bowie) that are considered good, rather than the ones that made us cringe or shrug. But I suppose that I have that hope with everything I release into the world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Why did I do it?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I like a good collaboration, and I reckoned that Will\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and my voices would sound good together. (I still think that and hope we sort out our ideas for future collaborations.)<\/li>\n<li>Like many, I was gutted by Bowie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death and, in some ways, getting to submerge myself in this was therapeutic. It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take the sorrow away (it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still there), but I find that working on someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creation gives me a sense of seeing them a bit better, which took the edge off my loss.<\/li>\n<li>I liked the fact that distance is a theme in the song and we were going to build this song around people who were both physically distant and strangers to each other. There are people I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never met who worked on this track, to whom I felt a sort of creative closeness whilst working, but who will still be strangers when, and if, we meet. (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure I owe drinks to at least half of them, so surely that means it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153when\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and not an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153if.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<\/li>\n<li>I love this song. I think the album is under-appreciated, and even others I know who love Bowie aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t familiar with this song. Whereas I actually recall clearly the emotional impact this song had on me the first time I heard it, years ago (and how I replayed it a dozen times in a row once I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d finished listening to the album). Whatever you think of our cover, go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jbrTDjbVaVw\">listen to the original<\/a>. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a dense and complicated piece that, in true Bowie style, sounds simple in the best possible way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This was a project that hit a lot of hurdles, so I definitely want to give yet another massive thanks to everyone who ended up making the time, giving their best, and (in some cases) and stretching their capabilities to make this happen. Literally each name on the list below (after the embed) is someone who had to give extra to do what they did or who was a last-minute save. Bless!<\/p>\n<p>Put your headphones on (really&#8230;this song is best with headphones or good speakers that let you hear the panning and such) and give it a listen. Hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/279319982&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Written by David Bowie<br \/>\nVocals: Amber Bird, <a href=\"http:\/\/foreverstardust.com\">Will Brooker<\/a><br \/>\nGuitar: Joe Brooker, Jason Cope<br \/>\nBass: Taylor McCarrey<br \/>\nKeyboard: Cat McCarrey<br \/>\nDrums: Euan Rodger<br \/>\nMixing\/production: Amber Bird, Joe Brooker<br \/>\nAdditional engineering: Oliver Betts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you very likely know, the world lost the incredible David Bowie in January of this year. 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I like a good collaboration, and I reckoned that Will\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,6,18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists-life","category-bowie","category-inspirations-influences","category-music","category-varnish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Strangers When (and If) We Meet - Amber Bird | Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amberbird.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/11\/strangers-when-and-if-we-meet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strangers When (and If) We Meet - Amber Bird | Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As you very likely know, the world lost the incredible David Bowie in January of this year. 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