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16 extreme voice JohnJJohnohn FoxxFoxx Exploring an Ocean of possibilities Extreme Voice 16 : Introduction All text and pictures © Extreme Voice 1997 except where stated. 1 Reproduction by permission only. have please. , g.uk . ears in My Eyes Cerise A. Reed [email protected] , oice Dancing with T obinhar r and eme V Extr hope you’ll like it! The Gift http://www.ultravox.org.uk , e ris, URL: has just been finished, and should be in the shops in June. EMAIL (ROBIN): Monument g.uk Rage In Eden enewal form will be enclosed. Cheques etc payable to (0117) 939 7078 We’ll be aiming for a Christmas issue, though of course this depends on news and events. We’ll Cerise Reed and Robin Har [email protected] UK £7.00 • EUROPE £8.00 • OUTSIDE EUROPE £11.00 as follows: It’s been an exceptionally busy year for us, what with CD re-releases and Internet websites, as you’ll been an exceptionally busy year for us, what with CD re-releases It’s TEL / FAX: THIS YEAR! 19 SALISBURY STREET, ST GEORGE, BRISTOL BS5 8EE ENGLAND STREET, 19 SALISBURY best! ”, and a yellow subscription r y eatment. At the time of writing EV16 EMAIL (CERISE): ry them, or at least be able to order them. So far ry them, or at least be able to order essages to the band, chat with fellow fans, download previously unseen photographs, listen to messages from Midge unseen photographs, listen to messages from essages to the band, chat with fellow fans, download previously ee in the following pages. EV has become an annual event of late, but you’ll be relieved to know that we’re determined to know that we’re ee in the following pages. EV has become an annual event of late, but you’ll be relieved Subscription rates are how to contact us: Here’s All the ver Welcome to EV16! Welcome s to get EV17 out EV is now on the Internet! Yes, we now have a complementary website, where you can get the latest news, send email we now have a complementary website, where EV is now on the Internet! Yes, m list, and many other things. Generally nothing everyone), view the merchandise (later we hope to have messages from The website has now become the to keep the magazine good value for money. there, the fanzine is reproduced from beastie which, if written in stone (well, planning, since it will be an ever-evolving home for the discography that we were The Internet is the perfect which was plaguing us – until now. in print) would soon become obsolete! It was a problem place for it, since it can constantly be updated and amended. W As usual, quite a few subscriptions run out with this issue, in which case your address label will say “subscription expires As usual, quite a few subscriptions run out with this issue, in which case your address with had the tr The other major news (covered in-depth later) is that EMI Gold are re-releasing Ultravox and Midge Ure CDs, with our Ultravox and Midge Ure re-releasing in-depth later) is that EMI Gold are The other major news (covered also have track selection, to artwork, to running out the film! We help – EV has been involved with everything from shops should so keep your eyes peeled – most record value for money, great several new CDs planned. At £6.99 they’re car This is not an album that can be listened to in the conventional been updated with the addition of rhythms which seem to be ULTRAVOX F way in that there isn’t a track that leads you into the album, far more relentless than they ever were in the past. SPINNING A WORLD WIDE WEB E nor can it be appreciated by merely ‘playing it in the I R background’. This album requires something from the listener, Tracks like Crash and Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible may Extreme Voice now has an Internet presence (see page 13 for B but if you are prepared to invest the time, you will discover an seem at first listen to be the most radical departure in that the full story), and is far from being the only Ultravox and album of rare beauty. Cathedral Oceans stands up they appear to have more in common with Nation 12 than N related site on the Web – the strength of support out there is I exceptionally well to repeated listenings in that new patterns anything else that John has done before. In reality they both and layers will present themselves each time it is played, as share a common ancestor in 20th Century – the repeated just stunning! Come and visit us at: your attention is moved from one sequence to another. one line over an insistent beat. http://www.ultravox.org.uk The form of the music of Cathedral Oceans has been It’s very strange to find an album, which has been created using JOHN FOXX constantly developing through the intervening years, so that this level of technology, to have so much warmth and feeling. MIDGE URE NEWS FROM THE QUIET MAN several albums’ worth of this material has now been written. This is particularly evident on the third track, Here We Go, It’s odd to discover that, despite the final selection of material which seems to be in the same romantic mould as Sitting at NEW RELEASES being recorded over such a long period of time, the quality of the Edge of the World. Lyrically the album doesn’t disappoint The big ‘new release’ news in this issue is that John Foxx has the recording does not vary from track to track. either: “I will not follow you, across the clear blue sky of finally broken his self-imposed musical silence by releasing not evening. And when I’m half asleep, I still feel your shadow on one, but two new albums! The first being the now-legendary It’s difficult to summarise Cathedral Oceans; it’s not an my ceiling” (Through My Sleeping). Another track, Shadow Cathedral Oceans and the second is John’s recent ‘instant’ album in the traditional sense. The music can be Man, seems to continue themes which have already appeared collaboration with Louis Gordon called Shifting City. described as atmospheric, tranquil and even ambient; which in John’s work (in this case from He’s a Liquid and The Man creates impressions of acoustic space of great size. If it helps Who Dies Every Day) fused together by the rhythmic anyone, John’s current favourite tracks are Through Summer elements from Metal Beat. In fact it’s difficult to determine Rooms and Infinite in all Directions. exactly ‘who did what’ on this album, the partnership between John and Louis being a subtle one – there’s plenty of blurring, Catalogue Number: Abstract Division META001CD merging and dissolving... Louis even manages to nudge his way into contributing some of the vocal elements on the track Midge Ure : Breathe Forgotten Years; a song which sees John crooning over a slow, almost melancholy beat. And the best is saved until last; 1. Breathe 4’28” An Ocean We Can Breathe was the last song which was 2. Fields of Fire 4’32” recorded. Originally based around a drone and basic rhythm 3. Fallen Angel 3’53” track created by Louis, the song quickly evolved into one of 4. Free 4’43” John Foxx : Cathedral Oceans the most powerful and ‘accessible’ songs on the whole album. 5. Guns and Arrows 4’44” 6. Lay My Body Down 3’58” 1. Cathedral Oceans 5’19” In much the same way as The Garden is now considered by 7. Sinnerman 3’38” 2 2. City as Memory 5’43” some to be the successor to Ultravox’s Systems of Romance 8. Live Forever 4’21” 3 3. Through Summer Rooms 6’36” album, we’re sure that Shifting City will be viewed as the 9. Trail of Tears 3’38” 4. Geometry and Coincidence 5’26” John Foxx & Louis Gordon : Shifting City true follow-up to Metamatic. 10. May Your Good Lord 4’04” 5. If Only... 3’22” 11. The Maker 4’45” 6. Shifting Perspective 2’35” 1. The Noise 4’17” Catalogue Number: Metamatic META002CD 7. Floating Islands 6’05” 2. Crash 5’24” Well it’s finally out, but since Breathe’s release was 8. Infinite in all Directions 5’49” 3. Here We Go 7’03” Cathedral Oceans and Shifting City are available by mail accompanied by an appalling lack of marketing and publicity, 9. Avenham Collonade 6’17” 4. Shadow Man 7’26” order for £12.99 each from Voiceprint, details as follows: it has sadly sunk with barely a trace, a crime for an album 10. Sunset Rising 2’38” 5. Through My Sleeping 5’03” packed with such warmth and vitality. Having had the luxury 11. Invisible Architecture 3’22” 6. Forgotten Years 5’43” VOICEPRINT, P.O. BOX 50, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING of hearing the penultimate studio mix of the album, we feel 7. Everyone 5’48” TYNE AND WEAR DH4 5YP, ENGLAND justified in saying that BMG’s influence during the final mix John has been writing Cathedral Oceans for over fifteen 8. Shifting City 3’36” was not necessarily a good thing. Two inter-track “links” and years now. He started after he’d completed The Garden LP 9. Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible 5’42” POSTAGE WITHIN UK: much of the flow has been lost, in order to push the initial back in 1981, in fact the first track on Cathedral Oceans 10.

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