One of those whose names are evoked once someone utters the words “record producer” and those whose oeuvre defined the course of popular music as we know it today, Tony Visconti is much less known as a player in his own right, although everybody must be familiar with the master’s early appearance as instrumentalist – on bass and woodwind – on David Bowie’s second eponymous album in 1969, which included the groundbreaking “Space Oddity” single. Visconti’s solo career, however, has been rather low-key, with platters released few and far between – Tony’s issued his first LP back in 1977 and followed it up only in 2019. Yet the veteran’s latest offering, titled “Apollo 80” and put our fairly recently, is brilliant enough to become a game changer.

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