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Roxy Music's Avalon (Paperback)
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Roxy Music's Avalon (Paperback)
Series: 33 1/3
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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.
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