New striking strokes

2 February 2025

Photo by Albert Sanchez

Former Roxy Music icon BRIAN FERRY (79 now) and Scottish artist/writer/painter
AMELIA BARRATT have completed their experimental collaboration in the studio
with an album, titled LOOSE TALK. It comes out on March 28.

Album artwork

Ferry: “The whole experience of making Loose Talk has had an interesting newness about
it. It seems to have opened a whole new chapter in my work. There’s a really strong mood
to the work that Amelia does and I was very conscious of not getting in the way of her words. Hopefully, together, we’ve created something neither could do on our own.

The nearest I ever got to doing pieces like this before would maybe be back in Roxy with “In Every Dream Home A Heartache” and “Mother Of Pearl.” To some extent, those are kind of spoken monologues.”

Barratt: “Loose Talk is a conversation between two artists: a collaborative album
of music by Bryan Ferry with spoken texts by me. It’s cinematic; music put to pictures.

There’s possibility for experimentation within a frame. And there’s a freedom in knowing exactly what my part to play is, then being able to pass a baton, stretching out creatively and knowing there is someone on the other side to take it further. Nothing feels off limits.”

Hear first taster ORCHESTRA
here.

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