Avenham is about a feeling. It’s a place John Foxx knew as a young man but it’s more than a location. It’s less defined, more dispersed and mysterious than that. As Foxx says: I think the point of music is to remain open enough for everyone to invest with their own experiences and memories, so I’m not going to explain too much, he says of the album which has echoes of his own London Overgrown recordings but also Drift Music with Harold Budd, his My Lost City album and the Ghost Harmonic project.

Avenham is always a mystery, anyway - even to me - and I’ve been going there for over sixty years. It’s a real place, that’s also as mythical as the gates of Eden. So the music is likewise nebulous and impressionistic - I hope not simply nostalgic, but redolent of myriad memories and sensations, and of the view from here to a time which occurs in almost everyone’s life, when the world becomes a radiant place of infinite mystery and promise - and everything seems possible.

Available as a Compact Disc, the full track-listing is as follows...

01. On Waking
02. Ampurias To Ithaka
03. Dream Through Trees
04. The Best Of Us
05. A Murmuration
06. Avenham

Release Date: 24 February 2023
Catalogue Number: META76CD

Avenham can be pre-ordered from Townsend Records...



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Rob

A bolt out of nowhere. Very welcome.Ordered.

Brian

Ordered!!

Once again, John's description of this 'other' new album really draws me in – with Avenham and The Arcades Project being released only a short number of weeks apart, it seems that John has been creatively very busy recently – looking forward to hearing them both

Just ordered this. It's great to see that John is still "working".

After a very long travel (nearly 3 weeks) during the post strike in Germany.,I got my copy of Avenham yesterday. I have to say John many thanks for this wonderful music.
It's a masterpiece and I enjoy a lot listening to it.

Now I'm waiting for the Arcades Project. ( hopefully not another 3 weeks to wait)