Cathedral Oceans II

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Cathedral Oceans II
Studio album by John Foxx

Publication
(s)

2003

Label (s) Metamatic / Edsel

Format (s)

Double CD

Genre (s)

Ambient

Title (number)

10 (+11)

running time

54:16 (+53: 01)

production

John Foxx

Studio (s)

Ground Zero, Metamatic Mobile

chronology
The Pleasures of Electricity
2001 		Cathedral Oceans II Translucence / Drift Music
2003

Cathedral Oceans II is the eighth solo album by former Ultravox singer John Foxx . It was released on June 2, 2003 on Foxx's own label Metamatic and is part of a trilogy that also includes the albums Cathedral Oceans I (1997) and Cathedral Oceans III (2005). The release took place as a double album together with Cathedral Oceans , which was renamed Cathedral Oceans I for this .

Track list

  1. Revolving Birdsong (2:13, Foxx)
  2. Shimmer Symmetry (5:13, Foxx)
  3. Far And Wide 2 (6:43, Foxx)
  4. Ad Infinitum (6:26, Foxx)
  5. Quiet Splendor (5:58, Foxx)
  6. Luminous And Gone (5:59, Foxx)
  7. Stillness And Wonder (6:23, Foxx)
  8. Return To A Place Of Remembered Beauty (7:21, Foxx)
  9. Visible And Invisible (6:49, Foxx)
  10. Golden Green (7:11, Foxx)

Cathedral Oceans I.

  1. Cathedral Oceans (5:17, Foxx)
  2. City as Memory (5:43, Foxx / Griffiths)
  3. Through Summer Rooms (6:35, Foxx)
  4. Geometry and Coincidence (5:24, Foxx)
  5. If Only ... (3:21, Foxx)
  6. Shifting Perspective (2:33, Foxx)
  7. Floating Islands (6:07, Foxx)
  8. Infinite in All Directions (5:50, Foxx / Gordon)
  9. Avenham Collonade (6:12, Foxx)
  10. Sunset Rising (2:37, Foxx / Griffiths)
  11. Invisible Architecture (3:22, Foxx)

History of origin

The double album was distributed via Edsel Records . All of the artwork was done by Foxx himself, who was teaching graphic design at Leeds Beckett University at the time and doing book covers for u. a. Salman Rushdie and Anthony Burgess had designed. Cathedral Oceans II received little media coverage. Apart from the unusual release format in the package with the previous album, Foxx's release policy was decisive for this: At the time of publication, the more accessible electro pop album Crash and Burn , which was released in September 2003 and in cooperation with Louis Gordon, his musical partner on Shifting City and The Pleasures of Electricity , was announced, and expected by the press. In addition, another ambient album by Foxx, Translucence / Drift Music , a collaboration with Harold Budd , was released just six weeks after Cathedral Oceans II was released .

reception

Jim Brenholts of Ambient Visions magazine describes the music on the album as a "gentle, pastoral atmosphere with delicate samples from nature and smooth, organic textures". He saw psychoactive elements in the music that let the listener hear, feel and see his dreams. The barcode magazine presented Cathedral Oceans II in a direct comparison high behind the predecessors and described the album as "darker, less harmonious and sometimes abstract." The magazine awarded 9.4 out of 10 points. In a review of Cathedral Oceans, the British magazine Record Collector described Foxx as the "godfather of electroclash " and suggested that the album was "designed to be listened to in botanical gardens and cathedrals". Reviewer Daryl Easlea gave a comparison to the album Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks by Brian Eno and said that listening to the music not only makes you feel like you are in a holy place, but “sometimes it feels as if God himself is walking in ". Foxx himself describes the music style of the album on the back cover of the CD as "music for a huge, half-buried cathedral".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TranslatedBirdSong.Wordpress.com Cathedral Oceans II. Retrieved April 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ EER-Music.com: John Foxx: Cathedral Oceans 1-2. Retrieved April 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Barcode Magazine. February 27, 2004: John Foxx - Cathedral Oceans 1 & 2
  4. ↑ Record Collector, September 2003: Cathedral Oceans I + II