Shifting City
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Released | 24 March 1997[1][2] (some sources quote 24 March 1995)[3] | |||
Recorded | MetaMatic Studio[4] CRoms studio[1] 1995[2] | |||
Genre | Electronic | |||
Length | 56:16[2] | |||
Label | Metamatic Records | |||
Producer | Louis Gordon & John Foxx[4] | |||
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Shifting City is an album by John Foxx and Louis Gordon, released in 1997[1][2][6] (although some sources cite 1995 as the release year).[3] Released simultaneously with Foxx's ambient album Cathedral Oceans, Shifting City was Foxx's first album release since In Mysterious Ways (1985).[1]
Stylistically Shifting City marked a return to the electronic sound of Foxx's 1980 solo album Metamatic, although it also shows an influence of 1960s The Beatles-style psychedelia, a style which Foxx had already experimented with on 1983's The Golden Section.[1]
A 2 CD special edition was released in October 2009, including three previously unreleased bonus tracks. Disc Two of this special re-issue contains the previously released “The Omnidelic Exotour” material, recorded live by Foxx and Gordon at A Certain Ratio's Warehouse in Ancoats, Manchester and at Metamatic Studio in 1997.
Track listing
[edit]1997 original release
[edit]- "The Noise" (Foxx) – 4:17
- "Crash" (Foxx, Gordon) – 5:24
- "Here We Go" (Foxx, Gordon) – 7:03
- "Shadow Man" (Foxx) – 7:26
- "Through My Sleeping" (Foxx) – 5:03
- "Forgotten Years" (Foxx, Gordon) – 5:43
- "Everyone" (Foxx, Gordon) – 5:48
- "Shifting City" (Foxx) – 3:36
- "Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible" (Foxx, Gordon, Leven) – 5:42
- "An Ocean We Can Breathe" (Foxx, Gordon) – 6:23[4]
- "Through My Sleeping" (originally titled "Leaving") and "Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible" are rerecordings of material originally recorded by Foxx with Nation 12.[1] On Nation 12's Electrofear album the tracks are credited to John Foxx, Shem McAuley, Kurt Rodgers and Simon Rodgers.[7]
2009 Special edition
[edit]CD1
- "The Noise"
- "Crash"
- "Here We Go"
- "Shadow Man"
- "Through My Sleeping"
- "Forgotten Years"
- "Everyone"
- "Shifting City"
- "Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible"
- "An Ocean We Can Breathe"
- "Shadow Man" (Early Version - Mono mix)
- "Quiet Men" (Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour)
- "Just for a Moment" (Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour)
CD2
- "20th Century" (Omnidelic Exotour)
- "Burning Car" (Omnidelic Exotour)
- "Overpass" (Omnidelic Exotour)
- "This City" (Omnidelic Exotour)
- "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (Omnidelic Exotour)
- "Just for a Moment" (Omnidelic Exotour)
- "Quiet Men" (Omnidelic Exotour)
- "Dislocation" (Omnidelic Exotour)
- "An Ocean We Can Breathe" (Omnidelic Exotour)
- "Through My Sleeping" (Omnidelic Exotour)
- "The Noise" (Omnidelic Exotour)
- "Shifting City" (Omnidelic Exotour)
- "Endlessly" (Omnidelic Exotour)
Personnel
[edit]- John Foxx: vocals, synthesisers, rhythm machines
- Louis Gordon: synthesisers, rhythm machines, backing vocals
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Storer, Alex. "John Foxx & Louis Gordon - Shifting City". Quiet City - The Music of John Foxx. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
- ^ a b c d "Shifting City > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
- ^ a b Wårstad, Jonas (10 February 2009). "John Foxx UK Discography". Discog. Info. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
- ^ a b c Shifting City CD liner notes
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ "Shifting City". Metamatic.com. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
- ^ Electrofear CD liner notes