John Foxx - THE ARCADES PROJECT - LP

John Foxx - THE ARCADES PROJECT - LP

The Arcades Project is John Foxx's first solo piano album. This latest work has a fresh sense of wonder, as if returning to the instrument after the raging analogue noise of his last major work, 2020's Howl (by John Foxx And The Maths) necessitated a further retreat into quiet, minimal music. The half-light, atmospheric flow of the album recalls the artist's own series of short stories, The Quiet Man (published by Essential Works in 2020). Foxx in turn - "with the piano and the help of some old electronics" - set out to create "immediate, often imperfect, gestural fragments of music and atmosphere that might allude to some momentary experience - a chance meeting, a glimpse into a garden, a coincidence, a life behind a window revealed at twilight, someone indistinct. And it all comes from walking."

Tracklist:
A FORMAL ARRANGEMENT
FLORAL ARITHMETIC
DAYLIGHT GHOST
IN ALL YOUR GLORY
LAST GOLDEN LIGHT
MOMENTARY PARIS
FORGOTTEN IN MANHATTAN
THE SEA INSIDE
LOVERS AND STRANGERS
STARLIT SUMMER NIGHT
COINCIDENTALISM
THIS EVENING