专辑简介

Ever since Maria discovered David Bowie as a teenager, she has loved his music as much as YoYo Ma's. To bring her long-time dream of making an album of solo cello renditions of Bowie’s songs to fruition, Maria teamed up with BeLikeWater Productions and called on her colleague, Swiss composer Mark Baechle, who has worked on numerous Hollywood film scores, to translate her love for Bowie to the cello. He created multi-cello, symphonic-like textures and arrangements (except Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide, which is a cello solo). And for the cover, Maria collaborated with a world-renowned Belgian designer Christian Loos (among numerous other awards, his work was chosen as one of the 20 Most Genius Advertising Campaigns Ever by La Repubblica). Maria says, “The cover is very Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim meets modern-day Man Ray and we love what Christian did.” The cover photograph is by a French-Lebanese fashion photographer Thierry van Biesen.

Space Oddity was arranged for the Ahn Trio by Kenji Bunch a decade ago, and Maria invited her sisters Lucia & Angella to record the piano trio version on this album. Maria says she had to include Space Oddity, because it was one of the first Bowie songs she fell in love with, and she couldn’t resist recording one track with her sisters.