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Book SynopsisHaving 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 mellowerreaching 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 falsen
Trade Review[An] incisive overview. * Choice *
Table of Contents1. On Modernism 2. On Avalon 3. The High Road 4. The After-Party
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