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Berlin. Once they’d decided to work together, their
collaboration started to take shape through what
was, in 1994, the most high-tech of methods.
Reeves Gabrels first heard about the planned album
just after he’d completed a tour with Free’s Paul
Rodgers. He walked into a hotel rooom in Oklahoma
City with the strains of ‘All Right Now’ ringing in his
head and saw a fax from Eno lying on the floor. Soon
fax machines around the world were spooling out
apparently impossible concepts and intractable
questions: ‘One idea that David and Brian were
trying to figure out was almost like a Charles Ives
thing where you have two songs playing
simultaneously then have them suddenly link up
where the same word, beat, everything was right on
the same spot: a mathematical problem.’
In essence, the work harked back to David’s first
trip to America, when he’d discovered the music of
outsiders like Iggy Pop, the Legendary Stardust
Cowboy and the fake Lou Reed. Hoping to tap a
similar source in their quest to record the most
extreme music of their careers, Bowie and Eno
ventured, in January 1994, to the Gugging Hospital
near Vienna, where psychiatrist Leo Navratil had
assembled a group of patients who would become
known as Outsider artists. In 1981, Navratil opened
a formal Haus der Künstler (house of artists) within
the hospital, where these artists could live and work
as a community. Bowie told Interview magazine
later, ‘Some of them don’t even do [their art] as an
expression of themselves; they do it because their
work is them. Their motivation for painting and