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Maybe I missed the thread, but anyone else received an email from Townsend Records?

"As a previous customer we are pleased to announce details of the new CD by John Foxx entitled 'My lost City'.My Lost City is an collection of 11 instrumental music which John has been quietly assembling for the last few years.
For further information and to pre-order click :"

http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/artist.php?artist=John+Foxx

Hi Donald,

It was in the announcements section last week along with the other 2 upcoming albums:-

http://www.metamatic.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000022;p=4#000055

Brian

Thanks Brian - knew I must have missed something!

Does anyone know what musical styles these instrumentals are in? Are they like CO or like the Harold Budd collaboration? Or perhaps like his older instrumentals or perhaps even a mix?

John Foxx myspace says:

"In terms of style, the album includes early experiments with ideas that would eventually become Cathedral Oceans such as the filmic, synthesizer-driven Imperfect Hymn; one beautiful track is built around piano but also features electronics; others are more tonal, though melody features very strongly throughout My Lost City. Everything is recognisable in other John Foxx projects, yet also unique."

I've only just noticed that My Lost City is now listed as a 'Townsend Records Exclusive' - has this just been added? I didn't notice it this morning. Does this mean that My Lost City is now a Limited Edition album?

Hate to be pedantic but aren't all of John's albums "limited editions" these days in so far as only around 1000 copies are pressed and very few of them make their way into high street music retailers?

Or it means you have to buy it from Townsend as nobody else will have it?

Many thanks to Don (quietrumrunnerman) for pointing out that My Lost City takes its name from an essay by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The essay was written in 1932, so I assume it is now out of copyright(?) - and is freely available on various websites such as this one;

http://www.uhb.fr/faulkner/ny/fitzgerald.htm if anyone wants to read it.

"...they blurred into one lovely entity, the girl..."