Major Kami covers David Bowie

Singer and musician Major Kami is part of the pioneering Bordeaux-based creative collective known as DAMde8. Bringing together about thirty different artists from all over the world, they collaborate remotely to create music without ever meeting each other in person.

Undertaking the ambitious challenge they set themselves, they went about creating a full-length electronic pop album, dedicated to the life and work of David Bowie. The eleven-track record titled Major Jones was initially set out by artist Denis Expert who began composing the material in 2020 with a small keyboard on his dining room table.

With help from his friend Dan Burkhart, a composer, arranger and sound engineer, the album started to take shape and the final piece of the puzzle was to find the record’s voice. After several unsuccessful attempts to find a singer, eventually they came across Major Kami and everything fell into place.

Lifted from the album is a cover of David Bowie’s “A Better Future”, on which the project put their own spin while paying respect to the original. Taking the rock song and running it through their own electronic pop sonic vision, with their cover of “A Better Future” Major Kami and the DAMde8 movement breathe new life into the classic song with a truly worthwhile re-imagining of music.

Listen to A Better Future below