The Golden Section
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| Studio album by John Foxx | ||||
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1983 |
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| Label (s) | Metal Beat / Virgin Records | |||
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10 |
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44:49 |
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John Foxx, Zeus B. Hero |
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The Garden, Shoreditch, UK |
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The Golden Section is the third solo album by former Ultravox singer John Foxx . It was released on Virgin Records in 1983 .
Emergence
According to his liner notes for the compilation album Assembly , Foxx was bored in 1983 by his perception of the uniform sound of current music releases and went in search of his musical roots: “Beatles, church music, psychedelia, The Shadows, The Floyd, The Velvets, Roy Orbison , Kraftwerk and cheap pre-electro europop “For the first time since Systems of Romance (1978), Foxx worked again with a producer: The album was co-produced by Bernd“ Zeus B. ”Held, who in the 1970s worked as a pianist and songwriter for the Krautrock band Birth Control and had recently started his own business as a producer in London. The Golden Section was created in Foxx's own "The Garden" studio, which he set up in 1981 for the recordings of The Garden in a country house in Surrey and with which he moved to the basement of a Victorian building in Shoreditch , London shared with sculptor Denis Masi, photographer Pete Mackevitch and filmmaker Chris Gabrin.
In late 1983 Foxx embarked on a tour known as "The Golden Section Tour", his first as a solo artist, to promote the album. Recordings of two concerts in London were released in 2002 as part of the double live CD The Golden Section Tour + The Omnidelic Exotour .
Track list
- My Wild Love (3:45)
- Someone (3:30)
- Your Dress (4:26)
- Running Across Thin Ice With Tigers (5:37)
- Sitting at the Edge of the World (4:23)
- Endlessly (4:18)
- Ghosts on Water (3:12)
- Like a Miracle (5:10)
- The Hidden Man (5:44)
- Twilight's Last Gleaming (4:24)
Endlessly and Your Dress were released as singles . The tracks stayed in the UK charts for three and four weeks respectively, reaching positions 66 and 61 respectively. The album itself stayed in the charts for three weeks and reached number 27.
The album was reissued in 2001 and 2008. Different bonus tracks were added in each case:
New edition from 2001, Edsel
- Dance With Me (3:29)
- The Lifting Sky (4:28)
- Annexe (3:10)
- Wings and a Wind (5:15)
- A Kind of Wave (3:37)
- A Woman on a Stairway (4:29)
New edition from 2008, Edsel
- Endlessly (single version) (3:52)
- My Wild Love (early version) (2:48)
- A Long Time (alternative version) (5:04)
- Annexe (3:10)
- Sitting at the Edge of the World (alternative version) (3:59)
- A Kind of Wave (3:38)
- Twilight's Last Gleaming (early version) (3:51)
- Running Across Thin Ice With Tigers (extended mix) (5:50)
- A Woman on a Stairway (4:26)
- The Lifting Sky (4:50)
- Shine on Me (3:46)
- Young Man (2:56)
- Wings and a Wind (5:17)
- The Hidden Man (alternative version) (4:41)
- Dance With Me (3:30)
- Endlessly (alternative extended mix) (6:03)
reception
Steven Grant and Brad Reno from Trouser Press reminds the album of the psychedelic late phase of the Beatles. You certify Foxx's dazzling creativity beyond clichés, but criticize his singing.
Web links
- The Golden Section on Discogs
- The Golden Section at Allmusic (English)
- Lyrics of The Golden Section on LyricWiki
- Metamatic.com - Official website of John Foxx
Individual evidence
- ^ John Foxx: Liner-Notes Assembly , Virgin Records 1992
- ^ John Foxx Q&A
- ↑ Interview with Chris Gabrin ( memento of the original from January 29, 2011 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chart Archive
- ^ Foxx retrospective on Trouser Press
