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Alphaville 2:55 02. Reason Or Rhyme 3:42 03. Sign Of The Times 2:30 04. New Town 3:57 05. Limbo 2:49 06. Bitter-Sweet 3:57 07. Dance Away 2:47 08. Zamba 3:06 09. Sea Breezes 3:01 10. While My Heart Is Still Beating 3:11 11. Bitters End 2:26 12. Chance Meeting 3:47 13. Boys And Girls 4:42 ┌────────┐ ────┤ Notes ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ While his tenure as the frontman for the legendary Roxy Music remained his towering achievement, singer Bryan Ferry also carved out a successful solo career that continued in the lush, sophisticated manner perfected on the group's final records. Born September 26, 1945 in Washington, England, Ferry, the son of a coal miner, began his musical career as a singer with the rock outfit the Banshees while studying art at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne under pop conceptualist Richard Hamilton. He later joined the Gas Board, a soul group featuring bassist Graham Simpson; in 1970, Ferry and Simpson formed Roxy Music. Building upon 2012's "The Jazz Age", and his acting turn as a cabaret singer in the 1930s Netflix drama Babylon Berlin, Ferry returns to his love of urbane classic jazz with 2018's "Bitter-Sweet". Recorded with longtime collaborator/pianist Colin Good, "Bitter-Sweet" finds the Roxy Music frontman once again embracing the vintage 1920s and 30's big-band swing he first explored on 1999's "As Time Goes By", and which he and Good brought to fruition with "The Jazz Age". However, whereas "The Jazz Age" featured instrumental reworkings of many of Ferry's best-loved songs, "Bitter-Sweet" features Ferry singing jazz versions of both Roxy Music songs and songs from his solo career. Featured on the album are the six songs the singer contributed to the Babylon Berlin soundtrack, including "Alphaville", "Reason Or Rhyme", "Bitter-Sweet", "Dance Away", "Chance Meeting", and "Bitters End". As arranged by Good and Ferry, these are all wry and romantic productions that evoke the smoky ambiance of Babylon Berlin's Weimar Republic-era setting. Elsewhere, Ferry transforms the new wave sophistication of "While My Heart Is Still Beating" off 1982's "Avalon" into a slinky, half-lidded crawl, and similarly mutates the pop exotica of his 1985 title track "Boys And Girls" into a slow-burn flamenco fever dream. Particularly compelling is Ferry and his orchestra's snappy rendition of "Sign Of The Times" off 1978's "The Bride Stripped Bare", in which the original track's driving guitar lines are transposed to a puckered trumpet lead. This is haunting jazz sprinkled with the golden dust of Ferry's glittery rock past. ┌────────┐ ────┤ Salute ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ BERC r35 GCP FWYH NuHS GRAVEWISH JCE KLV