I have just finished reading the story in this month’s Electronic Sound magazine on Benge. Benge lets slip that there will be a new John Foxx and The Maths album along soon…
I haven’t heard this mentioned anywhere else and it’s certainly news to me. It’s about time, though, don’t you think?
I wonder who the Maths actually are, now?
The original line-up consisted of Foxx, Hannah Peel, Robin Simon, Benge, Jean-Gabriel Becker, Jori Hulkkonen, Serafina Steer, Steve D’Agostino and Liam Hutton, but this was down to Foxx, Benge, and Hannah by the time of the later live shows.
My guess is Foxx and Benge, but time will tell.
Looking forward to this, unless it’s “Evidence part 2”. In which case I’ll give it a miss.
A 17 track CD compilation of John Foxx’s work from 2000 – 2016. Includes two brand new John Foxx And The Maths songs, a new re-working of ‘Talk’ featuring Gary Numan, two previously unreleased remixes by OMD and ADULT, and tracks with Matthew Dear, Gazelle Twin, Ghost Box, Louis Gordon and Jori Hulkkonen.
The Deluxe Edition also features a DVD entitled A Man, A Woman And A City consisting of 11 films created by Macoto Tezka with music by John Foxx & The Maths. This unique collaboration will only be available on the Deluxe Edition.
Also exclusive to the Deluxe Edition – a digital download of 3 previously unreleased John Foxx And The Maths recordings featuring John Foxx, Benge and Hannah Peel at MemeTune Studios. These will be automatically downloaded as part of the Deluxe Edition on the day of release and will not be available on any other version of the album.
Artwork by Jonathan Barnbrook.
Tracklisting:
1 John Foxx And Louis Gordon – A Funny Thing
2 John Foxx And Louis Gordon – Never Let Me Go
3 John Foxx And The Maths – Evergreen
4 John Foxx And The Maths – Interplay
5 John Foxx And The Maths – Catwalk
6 John Foxx And The Maths Featuring Matthew Dear – Talk (Beneath Your Dreams)
7 John Foxx And The Maths – Tides
8 John Foxx And The Maths Featuring The Soft Moon – Evidence (Radio Edit)
9 John Foxx And Jori Hulkkonen – Evangeline (Radio Edit)
10 John Foxx And The Belbury Circle – Almost There
11 John Foxx And The Maths – A Many Splendoured Thing
12 John Foxx And The Maths – A Man And A Woman
13 John Foxx And Robin Guthrie – Estrellita
14 John Foxx And The Maths – The Good Shadow (OMD Remix)
15 John Foxx And The Maths Featuring Gazelle Twin – Changelings
16 John Foxx And The Maths – The Shadow Of His Former Self (ADULT. Remix)
17 John Foxx And The Maths Featuring Gary Numan – Talk (Are You Listening To Me?)
DVD:
Film by Macoto Tezka. Music by John Foxx And The Maths except for track 4 also featuring The Soft Moon
1 Astoria
2 A Man And A Woman
3 Pystron
4 Evidence
5 Neon Vertigo
6 Talk
7 Myriads
8 Walk
9 A Falling Star
10 Cloud Choreography
11 Only Lovers Left Alive
12 Bonus Track Psytron 2
Bonus Digital Download:
All tracks recorded live by John Foxx And The Maths – John Foxx, Benge and Hannah Peel
Watch ‘A Man And A Woman’. Filmed by Macoto Tezka in Tokyo.
Taken from the Deluxe Edition of 21st Century: A Man, A Woman And A City CD/DVD
Available from HERE
Listen to John Foxx And The Maths Featuring Gary Numan – ‘Talk (Are You Listening To Me?)
Taken from the Deluxe and Standard Editions of the new John Foxx compilation, 21st Century: A Man, A Woman And A City
This live performance was recorded at York Cold War Bunker on 9th May 2016.The music was partly conceived as the soundtrack to a play based on EM Forster’s short story The Machine Stops. The play, adapted by Neil Duffield and directed by Juliet Forster was originally co produced by York Theatre Royal and Pilot Theatre during May and June 2016. A studio album by JF&TM of the complete soundtrack will be released by Metamatic Recordings in the next 12 months
credits
John Foxx – Korg synthesizer, vocals, vocoder
Benge – computer programming, Buchla Music Easel
Recording and live sound by Ben Eyes
Mixed and designed by Benge at Memetune Studios
Management: Steve Malins at Random
(c) + (p) 2016 Memetune Recordings
All rights reserved
This beautiful, dark, analogue electronic soundtrack by John Foxx And The Maths is described as ‘eerie’, ‘evocative’ and ‘a triumphant score of chest-crushing anxiety’ by The Independent and The Guardian. John Foxx and Benge’s set of dystopian science-fiction themes were first heard in the critically acclaimed stage play of E.M. Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’ in 2016. This album also features new mixes created especially for The Machine. Abstract, atmospheric vocals by John Foxx and Elizabeth Bernholz (Gazelle Twin). Artwork is by Jonathan Barnbrook.
1 The Ghost In The Machine
2 The Other Mother
3 A Dark Illumination
4 Tidal Moonlight
5 Hive Frequency
6 Transworld Travelogue
7 The Iron Bible
8 Animal Mechanical
9 Genetic Hymnal
10 Memory Oxide
11 Vortex Logic
12 Orphan Waltz
Written during 2015 & 2016, the music was commissioned by director Juliet Forster as the soundtrack for the theatre production of E.M. Forster’s short story The Machine Stops. Not all of the music was used and the album features some different mixes to those which accompanied the stage show.
1 The Ghost In The Machine
2 The Other Mother
3 A Dark Illumination
4 Tidal Moonlight
5 Hive Frequency
6 Transworld Travelogue
7 The Iron Bible
8 Animal Mechanical
9 Genetic Hymnal
10 Memory Oxide
11 Vortex Logic
12 Orphan Waltz
I watched the dvd last night. I can’t believe I didn’t buy this when it came out!
What was I thinking?
It is BRILLIANT!
It’s a bit of a shame that the Maths didn’t continue in this form, (with the addition of Hannah Peel, of course). I hadn’t realised the original lineup was this different.
The arrangements are completely different to any studio versions I have heard.
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