Artist: Carlos Alomar
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Dream Generator
Year: 1973
Tracks: 10
Guitarist Carlos Alomar has played on more than David Bowie albums than whatever other sixer stringer has (including Mick Ronson, world Health Organization was peradventure the most identifiable with Bowie). In 1974, Alomar crossed paths with Bowie, world Health Organization was interested in authorship an record album that explored dance/funk sounds of Philadelphia soul. The two attain it sour, which would signal the origin of a long and fruitful relationship between the isaac M. Singer and guitar player. 1975's classical Young Americans soon followed, as Alomar too helped co-write one of Bowie's biggest hits, "Celebrity," on with Bowie and John Lennon. It was besides around this meter that Alomar supposedly 'discovered' person isaac Bashevis Singer Luther Vandross, having him blab on Bowie's album, which at long last lED to a successful solo career of his have. Alomar apace figured out that Bowie wasn't typeset on a single musical expressive style for whatever period of time, as Alomar unbroken pace on such experimental and musically varied Bowie albums as 1976's Station to Station, 1977's Low and Heroes, 1979's Lodger, and 1980's Scary Monsters. The guitarist and Bowie as well helped revive the life history of hood icon Iggy Pop during this time period, serving bring forth and co-write two of Pop's finest solo albums, 1977's The Idiot and 1978's Lust For Life.
Alomar continued to play/tour with Bowie off and on throughout the '80s, including being named "musical theater director" of Bowie's portentous Glass Spider Tour in 1987. An surfeit of session work out likewise came Alomar's fashion, as he played with a change of early artists during this geological period - Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Chuck Berry, Bette Midler, Arcadia, Digable Planets, James Brown, The Bee Gees, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Carly Simon, Duran Duran, and Prefab Sprout, among innumerous others. As a upshot, the guitarist/songwriter has played on a total of 32 Gold and Platinum records all over the days. Alomar as well issued a solo album in 1988, Dream Generator, which focused more on synth/guitar textures rather than screening cancelled his chops. Soundtrack work for movies and TV followed, including such movement pictures as Pretty Woman, Pretty In Pink, Usual Suspects, and Christina F, asset jingles for idiot box commercials. Alomar as well reunited with his old sidekick Bowie for such latter day releases as 1995's Outside and 2002's Heathen. The early twenty-first hundred saw Alomar assist as Director of A & R for the "Boombacker" Music label, and putt together another solo expiration, to be highborn Hyly Volatyl.
