British singer Bryan Ferry in London today introduced its latest album, Olympia , an album with eight new songs and two versions in which the rhythms recovered eighties he launched to fame as singer of the legendary Roxy Music.
Ferry, the man who in the seventies and eighties put his unmistakable stamp emblematic songs glam rock as More than this, has played and 65, gray hair and acknowledges that it costs more composing when I was young. However, seeing him perform live, presenting their new songs, you'd think the time has long passed its staging and by his voice.
A disco ball, silver curtain in the background and dancers dressed in jackets with shoulder pads helped create an atmosphere conducive to a concert that began with You can dance, the first single from an album already in stores records.
catchy melodies, electronic beats and theatrical staging of Ferry moved to the stage the essence of Roxy Music, the group that for two decades impressed with his pioneering vision of pop music.
not in vain, for the preparation of the disc, the singer has had the collaboration of his former bandmates, Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay and Brian Eno, who worked together on a studio album since 1973.
rhythms Shameless disc and electric guitar Song to the Siren, a version of the song composed by Tim Buckley at the end of 60, prepared the public for what was to come: Let's Stick Together , a classic of Ferry's solo career that got this issue that Philip de Pury Gallery in the presentation of the album became a real dance floor.
Kate Moss is Olympia. Bryan Ferry. Box Édouard Manet "Olympia" (1863), in which a young woman appears naked receiving flowers from her maid, Ferry served as inspiration to create your Olympia particular form music.
To move to drive all the glamor and eroticism of this image, the English singer chosen as the album cover to the British model Kate Moss, whom he considers "the femme fatale of the times," explains the artist on its website.
An essay that discusses the connotations of the provocative Manet box written by novelist Michael Bracewell has been included in the deluxe edition Olympia, which also has a 40-page booklet with snapshots taken by the photographer Adam Whitehead for the occasion with Kate Moss as Muse.
Photographs, also displayed in the gallery where The concert took place, constitute a series of ten snapshots, one for each song on the album, which will be accessible until November 3.
The Scissor Sisters, Groove Armada, David Gilmour (Pink Floyd guitarist), Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead), Nile Rogers (Chic), Mani (Stone Roses bassist), Marcus Miller and Flea (Red Hot Chilli Peppers ) are other artists who worked alongside Ferry in some of the songs on an album that the singer wants to repeat the success of Dylanesque in 2007 reached number five on the UK charts with covers of Bob Dylan.
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