Description: Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower-reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances. Dadaist (punk) noise exited; a kind of ambient soft soul entered. Ferry parted ways with Eno, electric violinist Eddie Jobson, and drummer Paul Thompson, foreswearing the broken-sounding synthesizers played by kitchen utensils, the chance-based elements, and the maquillage of previous albums. The production and engineering imposed on Avalon confiscates emotion and replaces it with an acoustic simulacrum of courtliness, polished manners, and codes of etiquette. The seducer sings seductive music about seduction, but decorum is retained, as amour courtois insists. The backbeat cannot beat back nostalgia; it remains part of the architecture of Avalon, an album that creates an allusive sheen. Be nostalgic, by all means, but embrace that feeling's falseness, because nostalgia-whether inspired by medieval Arthuriana or 1940s film noir repartee or a 1980s drug-induced high-deceives. Nostalgia defines our fantasies and our (not Ferry's) essential artifice.
Price: 13.38 USD
Location: Matraville, NSW
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 60 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
EAN: 9781501355349
UPC: 9781501355349
ISBN: 9781501355349
MPN: N/A
Book Title: Roxy Music's Avalon
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: History & Criticism, Printed Music / Artist Specific, Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & Styles / Rock
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music
Item Weight: 5 oz
Author: Simon A. Morrison
Item Length: 7 in
Item Width: 5 in
Book Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
