Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesIn Rotation: Disappears

With all the crap going on in the world every day, I found a small consolation of hope to restore my faith in my fellow man from the worldwide reaction to the death of David Bowie earlier this year. It’s always painful to lose someone who’s so prolific and creative, but the thousands of tributes and memorials that made their way across the media-sphere demonstrated, however briefly, the power of music and art to bring us together in ways other forces simply don’t have the power to do.

One of the more powerful creative tributes took place a few months before Bowie’s passing. Chicago band Disappears, as part of last year’s Bowie exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, performed Bowie’s album Low, an album originally released in 1977 as part of his Berlin Trilogy. I can't think of many other bands more suited to interpreting the Thin White Duke's journey into the avant garde.

Songs from Disappears’ Low: Live in Chicago are currently being heard in rotation and by request on CHIRP Radio.

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