Manifesto [Remaster]

Performer: Roxy Music
Engineer: Randy Mason; Jimmy Douglass; Rhett Davies
Producer: Roxy Music
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Roxy Music: Bryan Ferry (vocals, keyboards); Phil Manzanera (guitar); Andy Mackay (oboe, saxophone); Paul Thompson (drums); Alan Spencer, Gary Tibbs, Paul Garrack. All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology. Personnel: Bryan Ferry (vocals, keyboards); Phil Manzanera (guitar); Andy Mackay (saxophone); Paul Carrack (keyboards); Paul Thompson (drums). Audio Mixer: Bob Clearmountain. Recording information: Basing Street; Ridge Farm. Unknown Contributor Roles: Alan Spenner; Paul Thompson . MANIFESTO was Roxy Music's 1979 return after a hiatus of several years. This second phase of the band continued in the direction begun with their 1975 album SIREN. Lush romanticism now enveloped their sound, softening the barbs and burrs that had been a characteristic since their art school beginnings with Brian Eno at the start of the decade. MANIFESTO yielded several hits and songs of enduring popularity in the Bryan Ferry songbook, notably "Angel Eyes" and "Dance Away." The latter, in fact, sounds of a piece with Ferry's eighties solo work--gorgeous, lush, and exceedingly romantic. This album and its two successors (FLESH & BLOOD and AVALON) effectively form a bridge from the glam-rock of the early '70s to the more sedate, but rich and confident, sounds of pop music for adults.

Mojo (Publisher) (1/00, p.108) - "...[It] was the last time they sounded remotely abrasive....the singles shine, and 'Spin Me Round' is the kind of romantic nostalgia that Ferry excelled at..."

Like Bowie, Roxy Music delivered art-rock with a heavy dose of irony, a scarce commodity in the mid-'70s. Bryan Ferry's lounge-lizard persona meshed with Brian Eno's pioneering electronics and Phil Manzanera's highly textured guitar work to create a decadent but humorous sound that influenced many '80s new wave bands on both sides of the Atlantic, from the Cars to Duran Duran.

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