Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023

ブライアン・フェリーを徹底的に探究する、初のキャリア回顧録

Island Records、Polydor、Virgin/E.G.、BMGにわたる彼の名作を50年以上にわたって初めてまとめた作品。
このコンピレーション・アルバムは名作家としての彼のスキルを紹介するとともに、他の作家の作品の最高の解釈者としても彼の地位を反映しており、ロック/ポップス/R&B/ピアノ・バラード/エレクトロニカ/アンビエント/ジャズ/カントリー/フォーク/ブルース/ニュー・ウェーヴまで彼の音楽の多様性を引き出している。
今作は、ブライアン・フェリーが共同キュレーションし、アートディレクションした一連の製品として発表される。

British pop icon Bryan Ferry offers a sweeping view of his solo career with 2024s bespoke anthology Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023. As both the frontman for the influential art rock band Roxy Music and on his own a solo artist, Ferry distinguished himself as a true original -- a rock crooner who brought together his love of golden-age Hollywood glamour and German cabaret with 50s rock & roll, classic jazz, and his own dashing glitter-era swagger. He continued to dig into his passions when he embarked on his solo career with 1973s These Foolish Things, a covers album that found him interpreting Broadway standards alongside songs by the Rolling Stones, Elvis, and the Four Tops. With 1976s Lets Stick Together, along with more covers, he started adding in reworked versions of his own songs that hed originally recorded with Roxy Music, like the slinky, jazz-influenced "Casanova." Then, with 1981s Boys and Girls, he further redefined himself as a majordomo of sophisti-pop, a coolly romantic, synth-inflected sound emblematized by his hit "Slave to Love." For much of the rest of Ferrys career, he returned to these sounds, offering boldly inspired cover tunes (like his take on "Knockin on Heavens Door" off 2007s Dylanesque) and artful originals (like "You Can Dance" off 2010s Olympia). He also explored new musical formats, revisiting his solo and Roxy Music output in a 1920s jazz style with his Bryan Ferry Orchestra on 2012s The Jazz Age and 2018s Bitter-Sweet. Over five discs and 81 tracks (as well as a thick book of liner notes and photos), Retrospective touches upon all of these periods in Ferrys career. It begins with an initial 20-track best-of-style collection (available as both a single disc or two-LP vinyl set outside of the box) that works as a nice overview. From there, you get a disc of his covers, a disc of his original compositions, a disc of his jazz orchestra recordings, and a final rarities set. Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 is essential listening for Ferry fans, illuminating the broad scope of his musical taste, from glitter rock to synth pop to jazz and beyond, revealing through it all that he has remained as indelible as ever. ~ Matt Collar