Future Music Review of new Cathedral Oceans DVD
9 out of 10
Cathedral Oceans is an ongoing project that stretches back many years and explores ambient sound, washes of reverberated vocals and strings like no other. But it's also been an audio-visual exhibition, from which this DVD essentially comes.
Each ethereal - and that word exists solely for Cathedral Oceans, believe me - track is accompanied by photos that evolve, blend and merge beautifully to take the original's listening experience to new levels of emotion. Great stuff.
Monday 26 March 2007
Friday 23 March 2007
Record Collector Review
New Record Collector review of the Cathedral Oceans DVD:
5/5
Will even teach Brian Eno a music-and-visual lesson or two . . .
In recent years John Foxx has dug himself out of the grave whose headstone suggested that his post-Ultravox! life ended in the mid-80s, after a series of interesting, if not commercially successful, solo releases. His recent albums though, have been excellent, showing that he really has got the bit between his teeth again.
This DVD makes it clear that the Cathedral Oceans album should only be experienced as images and music. Foxx has blended together a series of photographs that slowly dissolve, allowing another to bleed through each time one disappears. The vibrant colours change as another image rises to the surface, with some sort of reference point to that which passed before. Greek and Roman faces, stone walls, vegetation and portions of paintings all shuffle forward and spread over 12 perfectly complementary musicial tracks. It's mesmerising. This could be shown in museums, nightclubs, post office queues and restaurants, on long-haul flights or MTV, and easily elicit a strong emotional response. It is one of the most beautiful mixes of music and images Record Collector has ever seen. A masterpiece.
Ian Shirley
5/5
Will even teach Brian Eno a music-and-visual lesson or two . . .
In recent years John Foxx has dug himself out of the grave whose headstone suggested that his post-Ultravox! life ended in the mid-80s, after a series of interesting, if not commercially successful, solo releases. His recent albums though, have been excellent, showing that he really has got the bit between his teeth again.
This DVD makes it clear that the Cathedral Oceans album should only be experienced as images and music. Foxx has blended together a series of photographs that slowly dissolve, allowing another to bleed through each time one disappears. The vibrant colours change as another image rises to the surface, with some sort of reference point to that which passed before. Greek and Roman faces, stone walls, vegetation and portions of paintings all shuffle forward and spread over 12 perfectly complementary musicial tracks. It's mesmerising. This could be shown in museums, nightclubs, post office queues and restaurants, on long-haul flights or MTV, and easily elicit a strong emotional response. It is one of the most beautiful mixes of music and images Record Collector has ever seen. A masterpiece.
Ian Shirley
Sunday 21 January 2007
Welcome
Welcome to the John Foxx - Cathedral Oceans blogger. Plenty of information on the Cathedral Oceans project to follow on here as time goes on.
www.officialcathedraloceans.com
www.officialcathedraloceans.com
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