John Foxx

   
Artist: John Foxx

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Metamatic

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10


   
 Cathedral Oceans 2

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


   
 Cathedral Oceans

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11

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John Foxx was born in Chorley, Lancashire in the north of England. A nestling intellectual, reading the manifesto's of the Futurists ripened 9, a career in the humanities beckoned as Foxx enrolled at the Royal College of Art in London before forming the band Ultravox. After 3 albums, including one produced by the now legendary Brian Eno, Foxx left in '79.


His first base solo disc, Metamatic, was issued in 1980 through his own tag metal beat, with Virgin handling distribution. With the elision of some bass, the sound was all synthetic. It became his biggest selling album, featuring the single "Underpass."


A livelier album, The Garden, followed a class by and by. Named after the studio apartment where it was recorded and which Foxx would frequent for the side by side few old age. The first step "Common Market After the Rain" is possibly his finest second. The Garden as well included a variant of the "Lord's Prayer (Pater Noster)" sung in Italian to a disco outsmart! Initial copies came with a pamphlet entitled Church, complete with Foxx's photomontage images, poems and lyrics.


1983's The Golden Section was one of the few Foxx releases produced by an outsider, Zeuss B. Held. As with The Garden it peaked slightly glower down at 27. If that was a shame, it was zip compared to the cushion of his fourth and concluding album for one-time, In Mysterious Ways, charting at numeral 85 on its release in 1985. Two singles featured, both failed to chart contempt the unremarkably stunning Foxx illustrations on the sleeve, specially on "Stars on Fire."


After this John Foxx vanished, his name aim 'whatever happened to..' conversations. On the sleeve notes for 1992's compilation Assembly, Foxx hinted he was all disinterested in the mid-eighties music fit. He washed-out his time lecturing (portion shoot the video to techno band LFO's debut namesake single), illustrating book covers and collaborated with Bomb the Bass mainman Tim Simenon on the unretentive lived project Nation 12.


In 1997 Foxx re-appeared about as mysteriously as he had disappeared with two newfangled albums: Cathedral Oceans and Shifting City (with Louis Gordon). The early was primarily ambient in nature and namechecked player Harold Budd world Health Organization, during an interview, cited Foxx 'a antic artist.