Hi Good people. I thought I'd post my thoughts on Tiny Colour Movies. This originally appeared on the Bill Nelson website DREAMSVILLE.
Tiny Colour Movies is the new cd by John Foxx, which the postie put through my letter box this morning & after playing it only once I have to say it is a superb album. On a par with Metamatic for definite.
All tracks are based on short films that Arnold Weizcs-Bryant collected over a number of years. John had the pleasure of being invited to a birthday celebration screening for Weizcs-Bryants wife. mesmerised by the movies, John began recording new pieces of music & realised that after a few weeks, the images of the movies were still ghosting through his mind, flickering back to that birthday screening. So, John began working on pieces of music to go with the images of the short films, which I now have in my oily ilektrik hands.
The booklet that comes with the cd is full of images from the films, plus each track has a beautifully written description by John, which veer into J.G Ballard territory in places.
Those fans that have been longing for a John Foxx album that they can play over & over again, can be rest assured that THIS IS IT. It's full of minimal erotic textures that flit, slide , glide, flicker, shimmer & ripple through your cortex, unfolding in slow motion & blooming in filtered soft beauty.
Foxx fans that love Glimmer, Mr. No, Blurred Girl etc will fall in love with this album.
I adore it already.