Full title - The Golden Section Tour + The Omnidelic Exotour with Louis Gordon. Rare live release for the Ultravox founder. Mastered from Foxes own tapes, disc one was recorded during the Golden Section Tour at The Dominion & Lyceum Theatres in London in October & December 1983, while disc two 'The Omnidelic Exotour', performed with Louis Gordon, was recorded 'live' in Ancoats, Manchester at A Certain Ratio's Warehouse & at Metamatic Studio, Manchester. 1997. The 1983 recordings are previously unreleased in any form. Gatefold digipak.
Mirrorball is a melodically affecting exercise in ethereal ambience – precisely what you might expect from two artists whose CVs list collaborations with Harold Budd. That's not to set Budd up as an overarching influence, though: Foxx and Guthrie come to this album with their own long-established and distinctive pedigrees, the former as an electronic pioneer and the latter as chief architect of the Cocteau Twins' unique dream pop lullabies. Mirrorball bears the musical fingerprints of both, combining Guthrie's trademark hypnotic, echo-laden melodies with the kind of otherworldly, cavernous spaces that Foxx mapped on Cathedral Oceans.
Foxx's solo debut after leaving Ultravox!, Metamatic, achieves the same emotional transcendence as his previous group's early highlight, Systems of Romance, despite a new reliance not just on synthesizers, but on a musical framework dependent on them. On Metamatic, Foxx cultivates a curious air of disinterest that never seems truly bored, but is much more extreme than even his unarguably distant vocal style for Ultravox!…
Assembly was released in June 1992 as a retrospective compilation of Foxx's best work to date. Assembly contains tracks from his first four albums – Metamatic, The Garden, The Golden Section and In Mysterious Ways. The album was remastered for CD by Foxx himself, and was the first time many of his solo tracks had appeared on CD.