Various Artists / Fantastic Voyage - New Sounds For The European Canon 1977 - 1981

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Fantastic Voyage - New Sounds For The European Canon 1977 - 1981
Label: Ace Records
Cat.#: XXQLP2124
Format: 12" Vinyl LP, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 2024
Style: Electronic, Alternative

Track Listing:By the turn of the 80s, the impact of David Bowie’s ground-breaking Berlin recordings – the synths, the alienation, the drily futuristic production - was being felt on music across Europe. What’s more, the records being made were reflecting back and influencing Bowie’s own work – 1979’s “Lodger” and 1980’s “Scary Monsters” owed a debt to strands of German kosmische (Holger Czukay), new electronica (Patrick Cowley, Harald Grosskopf), and the latest works from old friends and rivals like Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel and Scott Walker, all of whom had been re-energized by the fizz of 1977.