The Seduction Of Claude Debussy

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Album Info

Release Date: 1999-12-01

Label: SMEJ Associated Records

CD-Extra, includes promotional video for Metaforce (Quicktime format), 6-page English booklet, tri-fold Japanese insert, and Obi.

Tracks 13 & 14 are designated as bonus tracks for Japan only.

Info from inlay:
The Seduction of Claude Debussy … featuring the heart of the Nineteenth Century on a Twentieth Century sleeve with a Twenty First Century gleam in the eye … featuring the end, the beginning, the beginning of the end, the end of the beginning, the middle and the glory … featuring the dream life of Claude Debussy as a metaphor for what a difference a century makes and the real life of Art of Noise as a metaphor for the fantasy life of a pop group.

Info from booklet & inlay:
℗© 1999 ZTT Records Ltd.
Manufactured by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.

Info from booklet:
"Music is not just the expression of a feeling - it is the feeling itself." - Claude Debussy
Art of Noise Imagine
[…]
Anne Dudley published by Buffalo Music Ltd. and administered by A.E. Copyrights Ltd (PRS),
Lol Creme published by Splat Music and administered by Perfect Songs Ltd. / SPZ Music Inc.
Trevor Horn published by Unforgettable Songs Ltd. / SPZ Music Inc.
Paul Morley published by Perfect Songs Ltd. / SPZ Music Inc.
Born on a Sunday […] published by Quadra Publishing.
Rapt: in the Evening Air, Metaforce and Metaphor on the Floor […] published by 18th Letter Music Publishing (BMI)
Music and French text extracted and distracted literally, metaphorically, romantically and symbolically from the works of Claude Debussy, Paul Verlaine, Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Bourget, Pierre Louys.
Text […] featured in 'Dreaming in Colour' and 'On Being Blue' with the authorisation of Jobert Music Publishing.
None of these artists ever promised you a rose garden.
Donna Lewis appears courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation.
Rakim appears courtesy of Universal Records.
David's Daughters appear courtesy of ZTT Records.
The Seduction of Claude Debussy… music from quite another film that never existed… […]
Produced […] for himself
Recorded and ProTools […] for Sarm Management
[…]
Art Of Noise play themselves
Lol Creme […] plays himself
Anne Dudley […] plays herself
Trevor Horn […] plays himself
Paul Morley […] plays himself
[…]
Recorded around the world at an average temperature of 20 degrees centigrade
Mastered […] at Precision Mastering, Los Angeles and […] at Metropolis Mastering, London
… and that's the weather for tomorrow
[1:] Debussy dies. Long live Debussy! […] Cry if you have to. A song to begin with. Inspired by the languor that penetrated Paul Verlaine's heart.
[2:] What a life. And it began on a Sunday. […] On a Sunday afternoon and Debussy kept his eyes on his dream. One hundred years ago there were a hundred years to go.
[3:] He saw life in black and white. He heard music in colour. He thought love was a dream. […] He dreamt of music.
[4:] Debussy was surprised to find himself being asked by a journalist what his favourite colour was. […] As blue as I feel, he said.
[5:] All dreams are interrupted. […] Colour continues. Dreams recur. Art of Noise occur. Debussy thinks that the world is his idea. And why not ?
[6:] Baudelaire showed him directions and he found himself going in the same direction as the evening air. […] It seemed to him it smelt like paradise.
[7:] To be interpreted wisely and with some imagination. Inspired by the love and death of Charles Baudelaire, poet. […] And freedom did a twist inside my lungs with the stars that I had swallowed.
[8:] Art of Noise come right out with it and exclaim - genius exists, what with one thing and another. And another thing - Debussy exists. […] And the Art of Noise exist, to a point.
[9:] Come quickly, put the light out. […] A song about fellatio.
[10:] Debussy visits a disco, Rakim rants about alienation and/or alien life, Baudelaire loses his temper and Art of Noise love their machines. […] He thought, we are the invention of passion.
[11:] He made music for people in all kinds of moods. […] Then everything changed and the moon in June went on shining.
[12:] Art of Noise put their world of Debussy on hold … […] A song about remembering and expecting. As penultimate as it gets.
[13:] Remix and additional production […] at Studio Drum, Bristol. […] And so Debussy prepared for the future, because he could see right through it.
[14:] […] Colour this song by numbers 11 - green, 22 - red, 33 - blue, 44 - yellow, 55 - purple.
[15:] Claude Debussy reaches into the mind of Art of Noise. Art of Noise reach into the mind of Claude Debussy. […] A song about everything and nothing and the something that there is in between. And so on, ultimately speaking.
"I have often heard it expressed that music could not claim to convey anything with precision, as words or painting do. That is true to a certain extent, but it is not wholly true. Music conveys things in its own way and by means peculiar to itself. In music, and in painting, even in the written word, there is always a gap, to be bridged by the imagination of the hearer." - Charles Baudelaire
[…]
This has been Art of Noise as the image of a group at the turn of the century: images number seven to twenty three. Images catalogued on the web site.
[…]
And remember … an apple beside a bottle is not the same as an apple beside a loaf of bread … now let's get on with the show …

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