Omikron

O Mi(c)k Ron(son)

Such is the stuff of necromancy.....

An odd little album appears in 1999 which is not regarded as one of Bowie's strongest statements.

A minor tour promoted the album, but there was no leading figure in the band, no guitar hero.

Gabrels had vanished, never to be seen again.

But, lurking beneath the surface, is a dark synth-industrial collection, nothing like the official release.

Inspired initially by a computer game, Omikron, comes the unreleased album of the same name, with its feet somewhere between the second side of Low and..... the second side of Low. Cool.

Perhaps Gabrels had become frustrated with the indefinite delay of the second and third instalments of the avant-garde Outside trilogy. Whatever his artistic reasons he was soon gone. But not before this quirky and gripping volume. When the darker offerings from Hours are woven into the Omikron fabric the whole thing takes on a bleaker and much more challenging listen.

And Hours is an anagram of Horus!