Bryan Ferry’s most recent musical odyssey came in the form of 2014’s critically acclaimed Avonmore album, now the LP gets some very special remix treatment by a connoisseur selection of disco artists from around the globe. The celebrated and tastemaking likes of Leo Zero, Ray Mang, Prins Thomas, Justin Robertson, Leftside Wobble, Idjut Boys, Man Power and many more all lend their well trained ears and serve up some sizzling new versions of the superb originals.
Bryan Ferry is one of the UK’s foremost singer songwriters, a pop artist and musician whose appeal has spanned five decades. With his elegant virtuoso performances as the front man of Roxy Music and his subsequent illustrious solo career Ferry has achieved numerous accolades and has been a great source of influence and inspiration for ensuing generations of musicians. As such, a project like this allows some of these established and rising talents the unique opportunity to add their own spin to Ferry’s singular style.
A broad palette of sounds, scenes and genres are traversed along the course of this absorbing collection. It kicks off in style with two different versions of ‘Loop Di Li’. Leo Zero’s take is sun-kissed and breezy, with trilling riffs and sweeping synths. UK disco don Ray Mang then offers a more pumping, groove driven effort that wraps Ferry’s unique vocals up in neo-Balearic cool.
Next up, the marvellous ‘Midnight Train’ is offered as a late night and romantic affair by Johnson Somerset, a cosmic chugger by Man Power and a characteristically left of centre house version by the inimitable Idjut Boys, famed for being remix kings.
Fans of dubbed out and slo-motion disco will love the brilliant Beard of Concern mix of ‘Soldier of Fortune,’ before five fascinating versions of ‘Driving Me Wild’ take in lush 80s nostalgia, swaggering dub, mechanical psychedelic disco, horizontal grooves and elastic kosmiche from Johnson Somerset, Leftside Wobble, Justin Roberton’s Deadstock 33s, Leo Zero and Ray Mang respectively.
The latter half of the album finds nu-disco pioneer Prins Thomas masterfully flip the title track into a broody affair with corrugated bass and tense, scintillating synth lines, whilst PBR Streetgang work ‘One Night Stand’ into a deep and synthetic disco bomb that will have dance-floors in raptures. Elsewhere Idjut Boys, Ray Mang, Leo Zero & Johnson Somerset offer more expert reworks. Hidden Orchestra layer grand instrumentals and sweeping strings into a dramatic and theatrical remix of ‘Send in the Clowns.’ Leftside Wobble then brings us back down to earth with an intoxicating brew of molten synths, woozy chords and smeared pads that sooth mind, body and soul. Finally ambient pioneer Ulrich Schnauss offers up a supreme adaptation of ‘Johnny & Mary’, Ferry’s timeless collaboration with Norwegian man of the mo- ment Todd Terje.
The rich source material here, along with the wealth of stars chosen to remix it, all make for another fascinating chapter in the life of one of the UK’s most cherished artists.
A selection of Avonmore Remixes are also available now on 2 limited bespoke 12” vinyls from The Vinyl Factory:
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Bryan Ferry - Send In The Clowns (Hidden Orchestra Remix)

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