Shifting City Explained

Shifting City
Type:studio
Artist:John Foxx & Louis Gordon
Cover:Shifting City front cover.jpg
Released:24 March 1997[1] [2] (some sources quote 24 March 1995)[3]
Recorded:MetaMatic Studio[4]
CRoms studio
1995
Genre:Electronic
Length:56:16
Label:Metamatic Records
Producer:Louis Gordon & John Foxx

Shifting City is an album by John Foxx and Louis Gordon, released in 1997[5] (although some sources cite 1995 as the release year). Released simultaneously with Foxx's ambient album Cathedral Oceans, Shifting City was Foxx's first album release since In Mysterious Ways (1985).

Stylistically Shifting City marked a return to the electronic sound of Foxx's 1980 solo album Metamatic, although it also shows an influence of 1960s The Beatles-style psychedelia, a style which Foxx had already experimented with on 1983's The Golden Section.

A 2 CD special edition was released in October 2009, including three previously unreleased bonus tracks. Disc Two of this special re-issue contains the previously released “The Omnidelic Exotour” material, recorded live by Foxx and Gordon at A Certain Ratio's Warehouse in Ancoats, Manchester and at Metamatic Studio in 1997.

Track listing

1997 original release

  1. "The Noise" (Foxx) – 4:17
  2. "Crash" (Foxx, Gordon) – 5:24
  3. "Here We Go" (Foxx, Gordon) – 7:03
  4. "Shadow Man" (Foxx) – 7:26
  5. "Through My Sleeping" (Foxx) – 5:03
  6. "Forgotten Years" (Foxx, Gordon) – 5:43
  7. "Everyone" (Foxx, Gordon) – 5:48
  8. "Shifting City" (Foxx) – 3:36
  9. "Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible" (Foxx, Gordon, Leven) – 5:42
  10. "An Ocean We Can Breathe" (Foxx, Gordon) – 6:23

2009 Special edition

CD1

  1. "The Noise"
  2. "Crash"
  3. "Here We Go"
  4. "Shadow Man"
  5. "Through My Sleeping"
  6. "Forgotten Years"
  7. "Everyone"
  8. "Shifting City"
  9. "Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible"
  10. "An Ocean We Can Breathe"
  11. "Shadow Man" (Early Version - Mono mix)
  12. "Quiet Men" (Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour)
  13. "Just for a Moment" (Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour)

CD2

  1. "20th Century" (Omnidelic Exotour)
  2. "Burning Car" (Omnidelic Exotour)
  3. "Overpass" (Omnidelic Exotour)
  4. "This City" (Omnidelic Exotour)
  5. "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (Omnidelic Exotour)
  6. "Just for a Moment" (Omnidelic Exotour)
  7. "Quiet Men" (Omnidelic Exotour)
  8. "Dislocation" (Omnidelic Exotour)
  9. "An Ocean We Can Breathe" (Omnidelic Exotour)
  10. "Through My Sleeping" (Omnidelic Exotour)
  11. "The Noise" (Omnidelic Exotour)
  12. "Shifting City" (Omnidelic Exotour)
  13. "Endlessly" (Omnidelic Exotour)

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: John Foxx & Louis Gordon - Shifting City . 2009-02-13 . Storer . Alex . Quiet City - The Music of John Foxx .
  2. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r342053|pure_url=yes}} ''Shifting City'' > Overview ]. 2009-02-13 . allmusic .
  3. Web site: John Foxx UK Discography . 2009-02-13 . Wårstad . Jonas . Discog. Info . 2009-02-10 .
  4. Shifting City CD liner notes
  5. Web site: Shifting City . 2009-02-13 . Metamatic.com .
  6. Electrofear CD liner notes