Fantastic Voyage: New Sounds for European Canon: Fantastic Voyage: New Sounds For The European Canon 1977-1981 / Various
Fantastic Voyage: New Sounds for European Canon: Fantastic Voyage: New Sounds For The European Canon 1977-1981 / Various
Format: CD
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Artist: Fantastic Voyage: New Sounds for European Canon
Label: Ace Records Uk
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 029667109529
Genre: Electronic
UK collection. By the turn of the 80s, the impact of David Bowie's ground-breaking Berlin recordings - the synths, the alienation, the drily futuristic production - was being felt on music across Europe. What's more, the records being made were reflecting back and influencing Bowie's own work - 1979's "Lodger" and 1980's "Scary Monsters" owed a debt to strands of German kosmische (Holger Czukay), new electronica (Patrick Cowley, Harald Grosskopf), and the latest works from old friends and rivals like Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel and Scott Walker, all of whom had been re-energised by the fizz of 1977. Compiled by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and the BFI's Jason Wood, "Fantastic Voyage" is the companion album to their hugely successful "Café Exil" collection, which imagined the soundtrack to David Bowie and Iggy Pop's trans-European train journeys in the mid-to-late seventies. "Fantastic Voyage" is what happened next. Bowie's influences and Bowie's own influence were rebounding off each other as the 70s ended and the 80s began, notably in the emergent synthpop and new romantic scenes as well as through the music of enigmatic acts like the Associates and post-punk pioneers such as Cabaret Voltaire. Like "Low" and "Heroes", some of the tracks on "Fantastic Voyage" are spiked with tension (Grauzone's 'Eisbär') while some share those albums' sense of travel (Simple Minds' 'Theme for Great Cities', Ryuichi Sakamoto's 'Riot in Lagos') and others find common ground with "Lodger's" dark, subtle humour (Thomas Leer's 'Tight as a Drum', Fripp's 'Exposure'). This is the thrilling, adventurous sound of European music before the watershed moment when Bowie would abandon art-pop for America and the emerging world of MTV with "Let's Dance" in 1983. "Fantastic Voyage" soundtracks the few brief years when the echo chamber of Bowie, his inspirations, and his followers created an exciting, borderless music that was ready to challenge Anglo American influences.
Tracks:
1.1 Theme for Great Cities - Simple Minds
1.2 Silent Command - Cabaret Voltaire
1.3 Riot in Lagos - Ryuichi Sakamoto
1.4 Eisbar - Grauzone
1.5 White Car in Germany - the Associates
1.6 Nightcrawler - Patrick Cowley
1.7 On a Trouvé - Isabelle Mayereau
1.8 3,000,000 Synths - Chas Jankel
1.9 No Self Control - Peter Gabriel
1.10 Nite Flights - the Walker Brothers
1.11 Tight As a Drum - Thomas Leer
1.12 The Farther Away I Am - Daryl Hall
1.13 So Weit, So Gut - Harald Grosskopf
1.14 Exposure - Robert Fripp
1.15 Patriarcat - Areski Belkacem ; Brigitte Fontaine
1.16 Silicon Chip - Basil Kirchin
1.17 Ode to Perfume - Holger Czukay
