John Foxx - Arcades Project - COMPACT DISCS [CD]
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- Genre: Dance and electronic
- Description: Following his blissfully abstract, piano-based collaborations with Harold Budd and Ruben Garcia over the last 20 years, The Arcades Project is John Foxx's first solo piano album. This latest work has a fresh sense of wonder, as if returning to the instrument after the raging analogue noise of his last major work, 2020's Howl (by John Foxx And The Maths) necessitated a further retreat into quiet, minimal music. The half-light, atmospheric flow of the album recalls the artist's own series of short stories, The Quiet Man (published by Essential Works in 2020). However, as Foxx writes in an essay to accompany the album, there's another text - by Walter Benjamin - that provides some of the inspiration, as well as the title for the new record. Foxx explains how he first came across the book, 'when I was at art school, in the mid 1960s a number of obscure books were discussed and dog-eared copies often circulated. Among these 'The Arcades Project', by Walter Benjamin, was especially tantalizing. It was often referred to, but it's existence seemed no more than a rumour. In those days before the internet, you could never find a copy. Of course, all that elusiveness and mystery lent the book a legendary status.Inch He continues InchThe book itself is a sort of stroll through new ideas emerging from the city life of Paris in the 19th and early 20th century. It was also concerned with what the French poet Baudelaire had termed flâneurism. The flâneur enjoys walking randomly, drifting with the tides on the streets, taking great pleasure in a dreamlike state of coincidentalism - being open to all the unfolding daily events of a great modern city.Inch The glass-roofed Parisian arcades that are described in Benjamin's The Arcades Project, offered it's citizens a chance to Inchmeander, dream, gather impressionsInch through the rows of shops and elegant apartments. Foxx in turn - Inch
- Artist: John Foxx
- Title: Arcades Project
- Format: CD
- Label: Metamatic
- Release Date: 04/14/2023
- Genre: Dance and electronic
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- UPC: 5060446128503
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Following his blissfully abstract, piano-based collaborations with Harold Budd and Ruben Garcia over the last 20 years, The Arcades Project is John Foxx's first solo piano album. This latest work has a fresh sense of wonder, as if returning to the instrument after the raging analogue noise of his last major work, 2020's Howl (by John Foxx And The Maths) necessitated a further retreat into quiet, minimal music. The half-light, atmospheric flow of the album recalls the artist's own series of short stories, The Quiet Man (published by Essential Works in 2020). However, as Foxx writes in an essay to accompany the album, there's another text - by Walter Benjamin - that provides some of the inspiration, as well as the title for the new record. Foxx explains how he first came across the book, 'when I was at art school, in the mid 1960s a number of obscure books were discussed and dog-eared copies often circulated. Among these 'The Arcades Project', by Walter Benjamin, was especially tantalizing. It was often referred to, but it's existence seemed no more than a rumour. In those days before the internet, you could never find a copy. Of course, all that elusiveness and mystery lent the book a legendary status.Inch He continues InchThe book itself is a sort of stroll through new ideas emerging from the city life of Paris in the 19th and early 20th century. It was also concerned with what the French poet Baudelaire had termed flâneurism. The flâneur enjoys walking randomly, drifting with the tides on the streets, taking great pleasure in a dreamlike state of coincidentalism - being open to all the unfolding daily events of a great modern city.Inch The glass-roofed Parisian arcades that are described in Benjamin's The Arcades Project, offered it's citizens a chance to Inchmeander, dream, gather impressionsInch through the rows of shops and elegant apartments. Foxx in turn - Inch
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