"Warszawa" is a mostly instrumental song by David Bowie and Brian Eno originally released in 1977 on the album Low.
[2] The piece is intended to evoke the "very bleak atmosphere" Bowie said he experienced from his visit to Warsaw the previous year.
After the melody is heard twice, at 3':47" the key drops a tone to E major, the texture thins out and Bowie's vocal enters.
Rather than quickly delving deeply into loud rock music, the song was used to intentionally provoke[citation needed] the audience into a calm, holding them initially in deep suspense.
These versions had Bowie on Chamberlin, Simon House on electric violin (and a violin solo to replace the higher notes sung by Bowie on original recording), Roger Powell on synthesizers, Sean Mayes on grand piano and ARP Solina String Synthesizer, George Murray on bass guitar, Dennis Davis on cymbals and percussion with Carlos Alomar conducting the band and Adrian Belew looking on with his electric guitar turned down (waiting for his cue to begin "Heroes" the song that was played afterwards).