CD reissue. Hours is the 21st studio album by David Bowie, originally released in 1999. All songs on the album were written by Bowie and guitarist Reeves Gabrels. Bowie and Gabrels wrote the songs for both Hours and the video game Omikron: The Nomad Soul at the same time. According to Gabrels, they set up special writing sessions to write the music for these projects, then recorded demos in studios in Bermuda and Paris. They wrote six songs and "a bunch" of instrumental pieces, of which six were completed for the game. Another eight vocal songs were written for Hours. The original title for the album was going to be "The Dreamers", after the album's closing track