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ARTIST
FOXX/STEVE JANSEN/STEVE D'AGOSTINO, JOHN
TITLE
A Secret Life
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
METAMATIC
CATALOG #
META 022CD
META 022CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
8/21/2015
2009 release. Having met during their live performances in Brighton with
Harold Budd
in May 2005,
John Foxx
invited
Steve Jansen
(ex-
Japan
) to record tam-tams (gongs) for a potential collaborative release. The dark tones of the tam-tams created a bed for atmospherics and acoustic piano work to be added. Due to various other commitments, the release seemed to be shelved until
Steve D'Agostino
(
Single Cycle Reorder
) took the initiative and completed the work. Since Japan disbanded in the early '80s, Steve Jansen has worked with his former bandmates
Richard Barbieri
(five studio albums between 1985 and 1996 for Virgin Records),
Mick Karn
, and his brother
David Sylvian
, although only together as
Rain Tree Crow
in 1990. He's also enjoyed a long-term co-writing/recording/touring relationship with
Yukihiro Takahashi
, including the 2009 album
Page By Page
. In 2005 he formed
Nine Horses
with David Sylvian and released
Snow Borne Sorrow
; the duo also worked together on Steve Jansen's 2007 solo album,
Slope
. John Foxx has been name-checked as an influence by everyone from the
Red Hot Chili Peppers
to the
Klaxons
; he has also been experimenting as a film-maker (with a pioneering video for
LFO
's 1991 hit "LFO" and performances of his 2006 Super 8 project
Tiny Colour Movies
in Melbourne, London, and Barcelona), artist (with exhibitions in London and New York and the use of his images on the covers of books by
Anthony Burgess
and
Salman Rushdie
), and musician, and he's also developing a growing international reputation as a writer -- in 2009 he headlined a major literature festival where he read extracts from his unfinished novel
The Quiet Man
.
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