Hotel Room

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 taste-making 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 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.
Ambient Pioneer Ulrich Schnauss has the coveted task of adapting ‘Johnny & Mary’, Ferry’s timeless collaboration with Norwegian man of the moment Todd Terje.
Hidden Orchestra layer grand instrumentals and sweeping strings into a dramatic and theatrical
remix of ‘Send in the Clowns.’ Leftside Wobble is then left to bring us back down to earth with an
intoxicating brew of molten synths, woozy chords and smeared pads that sooth mind, body and
soul.

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.

Lost (Johnson Somerset Remix)

Number One

Pet Shop Boys  - Opportunities (Timothy Bordeaux Remix)

This Economy
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

[instrumental]

They fly in, and they fly out
In their choppers and their jets
Cruise the scene in limousines
There ain't no place, 
that they ain't been

They have elephants for pets
Rooms with bars, are always wet
Not one star that they ain't met
and they never lost a bet

oooooooohhh   oooooooohhh

But look at me, yeah look at me
There ain't nothing here to see
All you have is plain ol' me
Someone who will never be

[chorus]
This economy
Does it ever work for me
This economy
Does it ever work for me
Food, shelter, and some wine
A little care 
From time to time
Why can't it do that for me
Why can't it do that for me

[instrumental]

They wanna live forever
They are building never-never
They will leave us all behind
Never mind, oh never mind
The system ain't for us
We are here to keep things clean
We belong back o' the bus
Never heard and never seen

oooooooohhh   oooooooohhh

But look at me, yeah look at me
There is a little here to see
Just a man who wants to be
Not too much, just time for tea

[chorus]
This economy
Does it ever work for me
This economy
Does it ever work for me
Food, shelter, and some wine
A little care 
From time to time
Why can't it do that for me
Why can't it do that for me

[instrumental]

They are out to settle scores
always fighting secret wars
They never hold a gun
Fools like me get all the fun
We die to guard their oil
Bodies left on foreign soils
We come back, we've been forgotten
Our reward is sweat an toil

oooooooohhh   oooooooohhh

But look at me, yeah look at me
What do I want to be
Be careful where you look
We're tired of playing by the book

[chorus]
This economy
Does it ever work for me
This economy
Does it ever work for me
Food, shelter, and some wine
A little care 
From time to time
Why can't it do that for me
Why can't it do that for me

[instrumental]

oooooooohhh   oooooooohhh

Why can't it do that for me
Why can't it do that for me

But look at me, yeah look at me
What do I want to be
Be careful where you look
We're tired of playing by the book

We're tired of playing by the book

We're tired of playing by the book

[outro]

Treason (It's Just A Story)

The Teardrop Explodes