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RNZ News
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Nashville Babylon: Saturday 24 May 2025
This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. Bob Dylan, 1963 Photo: supplied This week's Nashville Babylon celebrates Bob Dylan's 84th birthday with a selection of cover versions of his finest work from the likes of Mavis Staples, Solomon Burke, Esther Phillips, Bryan Ferry, RL Burnside and Willie Nelson. Music played: Artist: Mavis Staples & Levon Helm Track: Gotta Serve Somebody Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Carry Me Home Label: Anti Artist: Bob Dylan Track: Highway 61 Revisited Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Highway 61 Revisited Label: Columbia Artist: Bryan Ferry Track: Simple Twist Of Fate Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Dylanesque Label: Virgin Artist: Esther Phillips Track: Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You Composer: Bob Dylan Album: The Roulette Sides Label: Warner Artist: RL Burnside Track: Everything Is Broken Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Tangled Up In Blues Label: House Of Blues Artist: Solomon Burke Track: The Mighty Quinn Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Proud Mary Label: Sundazed Artist: Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard Track: Don't Think Twice It's Alright Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Django and Jimmie Label: Legacy Artist: Them Track:It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Them Again Label: Decca Artist: Emma Swift Track: Queen Jane Approximately Composer: Dylan Artist: Blonde On The Tracks Label: Tiny Ghost Records Artist: The Brothers and Sisters Track: All Along The Watchtower Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Dylan's Gospel Label: Ode Artist: Bob Dylan Track: Like A Rolling Stone Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Highway 61 Revisited Label: Columbia Artist: The Noveltones Track: Left Bank Two Composer: Wayne Hill Album: Left Bank Two Label: De Wolfe Music
Yahoo
20-03-2025
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- Yahoo
Bryan Ferry and performance artist Amelia Barratt share new video for title track of upcoming art rock album Loose Talk
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry has teamed up with performance artist, writer and painter Amelia Barratt for the very art rock Loose Talk album, which the pair will release through Dene Jesmond Enterprises on March 28. The duo, for which Ferry creates the music (it's the very first time he's created new music for another writer's words), have just shared a video for the abum's title track, which features Ferry's Roxy Music bandmate Paul Thompson on motorik drums. 'The whole experience of making Loose Talk has had an interesting newness about it," Ferry says. "It seems to have opened a whole new chapter in my work. There's a really strong mood to the work that Amelia does and I was very conscious of not getting in the way of her words. Hopefully, together, we've created something neither could do on our own. "The nearest I ever got to doing pieces like this before would maybe be back in Roxy with In Every Dream Home A Heartache, and Mother Of Pearl. To some extent, those are kind of spoken monologues. I'm pleased that when we've played Loose Talk to people, they've said, 'Oh, this sounds really different.' That's what I've always wanted with everything I've done, or been involved in, to be: different. Different to what you've heard before, or seen before. That's the whole point of being an artist: trying to create a new thing, a new world.' 'Loose Talk is a conversation between two artists: a collaborative album of music by Bryan Ferry with spoken texts by me," adds Barrett. "It's cinematic; music put to pictures. "There's possibility for experimentation within a frame. And there's a freedom in knowing exactly what my part to play is, then being able to pass a baton, stretching out creatively and knowing there is someone on the other side to take it further. Nothing feels off limits.' Loose Talk will be available digitally, on CD, black vinyl, green vinyl and clear vinyl. Pre-order Loose Talk. Amelia Barratt & Bryan Ferry: Loose Talk1. Big Things2. Stand Near Me3. Florist4. Cowboy Hat5. Demolition6. Orchestra7. Holiday8. Landscape9. Pictures On A Wall10. White Noise11. Loose Talk
The Guardian
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk review
There comes a point in every august artist's career where they're forced to make an accommodation with their own past, a tacit acknowledgment that anything new they release exists in the shadow of their own back catalogue. In recent years, Bryan Ferry has done just that, tending his legacy via vast box set retrospectives of his solo work; reconvening Roxy Music for a 50th anniversary tour; and releasing a cover of Bob Dylan's She Belongs to Me that seemed to discreetly reference the subtler moments on Roxy's eponymous debut or 1973's For Your Pleasure. Anniversary tours, deluxe box sets, slyly referential cover versions: these are the things almost all artists of a certain vintage and standing indulge in. But Ferry has also taken a more idiosyncratic parallel approach to his history. On 2012's The Jazz Age and 2018's Bitter-Sweet, he reworked his back catalogue in the style of late-20s jazz, replete with knowing references to standards of the era: Love Is the Drug in the style of Duke Ellington's The Mooche; 1977's This Is Tomorrow appended with a reveille that nodded in the direction of Louis Armstrong's West End Blues. Now there's Loose Talk, ostensibly Ferry's first album of new music in 11 years, but more an act of exhumation. The instrumental tracks are based on unreleased demo recordings from throughout Ferry's career, with the earliest examples dating from the early 70s. These demos were then refined and reworked in the studio, including with fresh contributions from musicians including Roxy drummer Paul Thompson. Presumably the recordings of piano and electric piano on Big Things and Landscape, wreathed in tape hiss, are from the 1970s. Indeed, there's a certain pleasure to be had in trying to work out what era the original recordings hail from. Was Stand Near Me's strange blend of funk bass and noodling, occasionally atonal synth once intended to be brushed up for 1979's Manifesto? Were the eerie ambient electronics on Pictures on a Wall a staging post en route to Avalon's instrumentals India and Tara? Happily, the music on Loose Talk has value beyond a guessing game for Roxy/Ferry nuts. The album is a collaboration with visual artist and writer Amelia Barratt after they apparently met at a gallery opening. She provides texts and narration, in a cool, unemotional RP voice. Their first collaboration – a track called Star that appeared on the aforementioned career-spanning box set – was based on piece of music by Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and his regular film score collaborator Atticus Ross, and a certain soundtrack-y quality clings to the music here. Florist drifts moodily along; the more strident closing title track boasts an appropriately end-credits feel (and it opens with a clatter of drum-machine handclaps, a sound so familiar from 80s pop, and so completely absent from it in more recent years, it has a weirdly Proustian effect). There are certainly points where Ferry's contributions fade into the realm of the characterless – Demolition or Florist could be the work of anyone – but Loose Talk is liberally studded with genuinely haunting moments, frequently when the old demos yield a snatch of vocal, as on Landscape or Cowboy Hat. Ferry's melodies are beautiful, the fact that these vocals are either wordless place-filler or rendered incomprehensible by the lo-fi sound gives them a strange quality, like memories you struggle to recall in detail. Sign up to Sleeve Notes Get music news, bold reviews and unexpected extras. Every genre, every era, every week after newsletter promotion In a sense, Barratt's texts are vague, too. There's plenty of visual detail in her writing, but what's actually going on is usually unclear. If the sunny vignette of Holiday or the depiction of a tailor at work in Cowboy Hat seem straightforward enough, more often it feels as though something has happened out of shot, and it sounds like bad news: the narrator of Florist ends up in tears; the relief solitude provides on the title track feels unsettlingly overwhelming. Occasionally, Barratt alights on subjects her collaborator might have written about. There's something quite Ferry-esque about the vengeful siren of Stand Near Me, applying perfume before exacting some nameless retribution, or the narrator of Big Things, watching a barman flame an orange peel, a distraction from the sight of the bar's 'dreadful carpet'. But more often, the sense of imprecise dread or menace that infects a lot of her writing gives Loose Talk a noticeably different emotional – as well as musical – cast to anything Ferry has attempted before. If the end results aren't quite as holistic as the 'duet' both parties have claimed it as, it still works. Barratt's texts are striking enough that the listener doesn't long for an instrumental version; Ferry's approach is intriguing and impressively original. It's a diversion, but one that transforms his past into something fresh. Loose Talk is released on 28 March Neal Francis – Broken Glass The singer-songwriter heads towards the post-punk disco dancefloor in the company of Brooklyn trio Say She She, with entirely fabulous results.
