Heathen (2025 Remaster): CD Buck Meek The Birth of an Opera

The Birth of an Opera narrated by Culshaw (Solti Tristan

Mastered by Kieran Hebden

Debut full-length The Cold Sun was a heady hybrid of meaty down-tuned riffs

Two producers: iconic American-Panamanian jazz drummer Billy Cobham

The Man In Black is accompanied by Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant

Heathen (2025 Remaster): CD Buck Meek The Birth of an Opera2002s HEATHEN was the first album Bowie and Tony Visconti had worked on together in twenty two years. Recorded in a residential studio in upstate New York, it was the first Bowie album of the new millennium that represented a commercial resurgence and return to his Art Rock sound of the 1970s. Guest guitarists on the album included Pete Townshend, Dave Grohl and longtime collaborator Carlos Alomar.