Although Bryan Ferry soon late 80s retired after completion of his world tour back in the recording studio, he needed for his next album with original songs long, artistically painful years. The introverted singer lost his way in the variety of sounds that allowed him to take a studio with 56 tracks. To get away, he turned, as he called it, "the canvas to the wall" and dedicated in 1992. Instead, another album with reinterpretations of foreign compositions, which then also appeared in 1993 under the title "Taxi". Thereafter, to Ferry made again with renewed vigor to the original compositions, added newer pieces and edited the older recordings. The result is a unique, extremely complex, atmospheric instrumental album of impressionistic details, in the midst of which is Ferrys here particularly plaintive moved sounding voice. The dense, diffuse texts leave the interpretation room, the songs themselves are often reduced to a few repetitive chords. The complexity is in spite of the relatively continuous presence of rhythmic patterns in the woven spherical Details, such. As guitar or keyboard sounds that can be heard only after an increased accurate listening. Here some deeply moving songs have arisen, the m. E. Ferry are among the best works - "Your Painted Smile", "Mamouna" or "Which Way to Turn". Another exciting facet also wins the CD through the involvement of the Ambient-master Brian Eno on eight of the ten songs - the first collaboration between Ferry and Eno, since the latter in 1973 left Roxy Music. Eno contributes sound effects and manipulations that many pieces an even exzentrischeres, but never give too shrill sound. Furthermore, the Roxy Music members Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera have played on two songs - they, too, are of course embedded in the thick carpet of sound. In short: Those who "Let's Stick Together" hear Bryan Ferry of his chart hits like for like, will discover to any Party Kracher here probably few. However, if you want to experience a floating, hypnotic, often cryptic, very dense and homogeneous album with dark melancholy pop music (in the strong generalized sense) can in "Mamouna", an album that has the artist demands a lot of energy, discover a fascinating work.
