Advantages: beautiful recorded selection of cool, adult songs Disadvantages: the pace falters a little in the middle
Mamouna was the product of years of wearying studo work. BryanFerry first began working on these songs in 1989. He shelved the whole album, at that point called Horoscope, in 1991, frustrated by the snails-pace progress he was making.
But the delays were entirely Ferry's own fault. Seduced by evermore complex studios, Ferry had been using 64 track set ups and had used every possible track, filling hours of digital space with tiny guitar licks, sax flourishes, cool backing vocals and all sorts of fragments of excellence from top notch musicians and singers. But the songs themselves weren't happening. He had nothing but vapid ambience. It sounded lovely, but there was no heart.
He changed tack, called up producer and guitarist Robin Trower and proceeded to record an album of covers - Taxi - very quickly and using only one small ...
Advantages: better sound Disadvantages: another version to buy
When BryanFerry?s sixth studio album was released in the June of 1985 as a long-standing fan of ?Bryan?s? music and that of ?Roxy Music?, I bought it with out hearing a single track apart from the single ?Slave to Love? (which was featured extensively on the soundtrack to the movie ?9 ½ weeks? and reached number 10 in the U.K. charts, the album itself gave Bryan his first solo number 1 album.
What we the listening public where treated to was basically the continuation of the ideas and themes on the last ?Roxy Music? album ?Avalon? which is full of soundscapes and sonic textures.
But for this version of Bryan?s vision it looks like he created a wish list of musicians for the project and everyone he asked came to the party, the list reads like a who?s who of the music world at that time, David Gilmour (from ?Pink Floyd?), Nile ...
Advantages: Thirteen Great Cover Versions Disadvantages: None
This op was prompted by reading JOHNV's op on the same album. It's my favourite BryanFerry solo outing , and in my opinion, his most successful.
Born September 26, 1945 in Washington in the North England, BryanFerry, the son of a coal miner, began his musical career as a singer with the rock outfit the Banshees while studying art at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne under pop-conceptualist Richard Hamilton. Later he joined the Gas Board, a soul group featuring bassist Graham Simpson. In 1970, Ferry and Simpson formed Roxy Music and within a few years, Roxy Music had become phenomenally successful, which allowed Ferry the opportunity to indulge his first solo LP in 1973. Far removed from the group's arty glam-rock, These Foolish Things consisted completely of cover versions, just about beating David Bowie's similar project ...
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