The Golden Section
Occupation
- John Foxx - guitar, vocals, keyboards
- Blair Cunningham - drums
- Jo Dworniak - Bass
- Zeus B. Held - Keyboard
- Mike Howlett - bass, drums
- J. J. Jeczalik - Programming
- James Risborough - backing vocals
- Robin Simon - Guitar
- Paul Wickens - drums, keyboard
The Golden Section is the third solo album by former Ultravox singer John Foxx. It was released in 1983 on Virgin Records.
Formation
According to his liner notes to the compilation album assembly Foxx in 1983 was bored by his perception based on uniform sound of contemporary music publications and went in search of his roots: " Beatles, church music, psychedelia, The Shadows, The Floyd, The Velvets, Roy Orbison, Kraftwerk and cheap pre -electro europop " for the first time since the system of Romance (1978 ) Foxx again worked with a producer: was co- produced the album by Bernd " Zeus as " hero who in the 1970s as a pianist and songwriter of the Krautrock band Birth Control worked and had just been made as a producer in London independently. The result is The Golden Section in Foxx ' own "The Garden " studio, which he had established in 1981 for the recording of The Garden in a country house in Surrey and with whom he in the basement of a Victorian building in London's Shoreditch, which he informed the sculptor Denis Masi, photographer Pete Mackevitch and filmmaker Chris Gabrin, had moved.
End of 1983, Foxx embarked on a as "The Golden Section Tour" designated tour, his first as a solo artist to promote the album. Recordings of two concerts in London were published in 2002 as part of the double live CD The Golden Section Tour The Omnidelic Exotour.
Title list
Were released as singles and Endlessly Your Dress. The title remained three or four weeks in the UK charts and reached the positions 66 and 61, respectively The album itself remained three weeks in the charts, reaching number 27
The album was reissued in 2001 and 2008. In each case, different bonus tracks were added:
Remake of the 2001 Edsel
Remake of the 2008 Edsel
Reception
Steven Grant and Brad Reno from Trouser Press the album reminds of the psychedelic late phase of the Beatles. You certify Foxx dazzling creativity beyond clichés, but criticize his singing.