Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Windswept





















"Untamed landscape is a perfect setting for the restless heart. Reckless -- we see nothing -- we hear nothing -- is it a feeling only, or a state of mind? We only know we're swept away... the stuff that dreams are made of.

Vinyl... the stuff that discs are made of -- dreams themselves cut deep into a thousand grooves, like hieroglyphics on a tablet. What lies beneath the ebony surface, hard and gleaming and darkly reflective of deeper things?... secrets recovered only by diamond drawn across dark mirror of vulcanite.

Vulcan's mountain lair, where he fashioned from fire his terrible art, might well have been the Swiss alps. On the shores of Lake Geneva they will tell you how in winter, out-of-season, everything shuts down, and Montreaux becomes a ghost town. This splendid isolation was the perfect setting when Bryan Ferry arrived in the autumn of 1977 to make his new record.

In the spring of the next year he emerged with the controversial Bride Stripped Bare, which had been destined at one point to be a double album. These three previously unreleased songs are from the collection.
-S.P.P."

Vinyl rip @ 320kbps