From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V13 #1 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, January 3 2009 Volume 13 : Number 001 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Japanese Electronica Cover of "Editions of You" up on our MySpace page ["Alan Heaton" Subject: [AVALON] Japanese Electronica Cover of "Editions of You" up on our MySpace page Happy New Year, fellow Avalonians. I hope that 2009 brings great joy, as well as great music. Will there be a new Roxy album in 2009? Perhaps. Will there be a new Roxy Tribute album in 2009 (featuring the contributions of some Avalon list members?) Almost certainly. I honestly don't know how most people on this list feel about the idea of Roxy Music Tributes, but I have always enjoyed good covers of songs that I like, and I can only listen to my Roxy albums so many times. I also like doing my small part to help keep Roxy's music alive. Anyway, I wanted to share that there are a number of things going on over on our MySpace page, which you can find at: www.myspace.com/songsofroxymusicrevisited 1.) We finally have a name for the compilation. It is: Take Refuge In Pleasure: The Songs of Roxy Music Revisited I thought that this was a cool name, especially for a Roxy Box Set - hope that you like it. 2.) We have posted a wild new cover on the page. Japanese band Alone Together has done an electronica cover of "Editions of You" that is very, very cool. I don't expect everyone to like it, particularly on a first listen, but this is exactly the kind of cover I like having on my records - I don't want a bunch of people trying to simply copy the Roxy originals, and no one can accuse this track of doing that! This is Roxy updated for the 21st century - see what you think. Again, at the first listen, I was somewhat aghast, but once it sunk in, it has become a favorite of mine - from my previous (non-Roxy) experience, this is the kind of track that the band members themselves might enjoy. 3.) The Cover Model Search is coming along nicely - there are still 6 weeks to go on that, with the deadline for submitting photos on February 14th, 2009. We would certainly welcome any photos that anyone might like to submit as well as input on any of the photos that we have. At the end of the day, we really do want our cover art to have the "Roxy Look." 4.) Finally, we have altered the album structure slightly. Rather than the somewhat cheesy "Rocking Roxy"/"Romantic Roxy" scheme for the 2 discs of Roxy covers, we have changed that to "Early Roxy"/"Later Roxy." We think this method makes more sense and will do a better job of spanning the entire Roxy catalogue. That's it - Happy New Year to all! Cheers, Alan ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V13 #1 *************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest