Roxy Music - The Avalon Tapes (Outtakes 1981-1982)

 

Roxy Music - The Avalon Tapes
Studio Demo Outtakes 1981-1982
(Demos / Outtakes / Unreleased

Studio Soundboard Recordings
Encoded: 320 Kbps MP3

Track List: (Artwork Included)
01. True To Life (Ferry) 4:09
Song Demo Rough Track With Vocalizing 1981 Roxy Music
Without the lyrics, it sounds very much like "Slave to Love"...
02. More Than This (Ferry) 4:39
Song Demo Rough Track With Vocalizing 1981 Roxy Music
03. The Main Thing (Ferry) 3:27
Song Demo Rough Track With Vocalizing 1981 Roxy Music
04. Unreleased #1 (unknown) 3:37
Song Demo Rough Track With Vocalizing 1981
Listed (on back as Track 5) as "Unreleased #1"
05. Avalon (Ferry) 3:17
Song Demo Rough Track With Vocalizing 1981 Roxy Music
Listed on back as Track 4
To me, it sounds like Lost, that re-surfaced 33 years later in Ferry's Avonmore album
06. Is Your Love Strong Enough (Ferry) 3:40
Song Demo Rough Track With Some Lyrics 1981 Roxy Music
Listed as "Circles"
07. The Space Between (Ferry) 4:25
Song Demo Rough Track - Instrumental 1981 Roxy Music
08. Movie, Move Me [version 1] (Ferry) 3:20
Song Demo Rough Track With Some Lyrics 1981 Roxy Music
09. Unreleased #2 (unknown) 3:54
Song Demo Rough Track - Instrumental 1981
10. While My Heart Is Still Beating (Ferry/Mackay) 3:17
Song Demo Rough Track - Instrumental 1981 Roxy Music
11. Unreleased #3 (unknown) 4:37
Song Demo Rough Track With Vocalizing 1981
12. Take A Chance With Me (Ferry/Manzanera) 4:29
Song Demo Rough Track With Vocalizing 1981 Roxy Music
13. Unreleased #4 (unknown) 3:06
Song Demo Rough Track With Vocalizing 1981
14. Unreleased #5 (unknown) 2:55
Song Demo Rough Track - Instrumental1981
15. Movie, Move Me [version 2] (Ferry) 3:46
Song Demo Rough Track With Vocalizing 1981 Roxy Music

Collection of demos for the Avalon album, with a number of songs that weren't ultimately included.
All the songs are in the same basic format:
- a basic backing track, with Bryan Ferry vocalizing along to the melody with barely a lyric to articulate
- quite mind-boggling that this is how these songs evolved, the music consistently coming before any attempt at lyrics. The sound quality is very good.

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