Bryan Ferry and performance artist, writer and painter Amelia Barratt release ‘Loose Talk’, the latest work and title track from their upcoming collaborative album Loose Talk, due for release on 28th March. The accompanying video was shot by Bryan Ferry. Listen to ‘Loose Talk’ here
The title track ‘Loose Talk’ boasts a near-motorik drive and features the presence of Roxy Music’s Paul Thompson on drums, and follows the richly detailed and transportive ‘Orchestra’, and ‘Florist’ that invited listeners deeper into the cinematic world of Loose Talk.
Loose Talk signals the beginning of a new creative chapter for Bryan Ferry, blurring the lines between music, poetry and art. Fifty-three years since Roxy Music’s iconic debut album arrived like a bolt-from-the-blue, his latest project is just as startlingly unexpected. The sounds and shapes, and the spoken words they are set to, are unlike any previous Bryan Ferry album. At the same time, the mood that Loose Talk captures is rooted in Ferry’s past half-century of work.
Loose Talk marks the first time Ferry has created new music for another writer’s words. The album consists of eleven texts, composed by Amelia Barratt, creating fascinating micro-fictions, simultaneously fragmentary and self-contained.
The album balances refined minimalism and abstraction with an experimental and youthful energy. Ferry’s music and Barratt’s texts each hold their own codes. As those codes pulse as one, the album discovers its own language – two monologues begin a conversation that becomes a duet.
Earlier this week, Bryan and Amelia announced a special Spatial Playback event taking place at London’s ICA on the day of the album’s release. Fans can experience Loose Talk in glistening 360° audio at ICA, using the venue’s spatial soundsystem, d&b Soundscape. For more information and tickets, see here.
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