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However, as Foxx writes in an essay to accompany the album, there’s another text - by Walter Benjamin - that provides some of the inspiration, as well as the title for the new record. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFoxx explains how he first came across the book, ‘when I was at art school, in the mid 1960s a number of obscure books were discussed and dog-eared copies often circulated. Among these \u003ci\u003eThe Arcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e, by Walter Benjamin, was especially tantalising. It was often referred to, but its existence seemed no more than a rumour. In those days before the internet, you could never find a copy. Of course, all that elusiveness and mystery lent the book a legendary status.” He continues: “The book itself is a sort of stroll through new ideas emerging from the city life of Paris in the 19th and early 20th century. It was also concerned with what the French poet Baudelaire had termed flaneurism. The flaneur enjoys walking randomly, drifting with the tides on the streets, taking great pleasure in a dreamlike state of coincidentalism - being open to all the unfolding daily events of a great modern city.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe glass-roofed Parisian arcades that are described in Benjamin’s \u003ci\u003eThe Arcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e, offered its citizens a chance to “meander, dream, gather impressions” through the rows of shops and elegant apartments. Foxx in turn - “with the piano and the help of some old electronics” - set out to create “immediate, often imperfect, gestural fragments of music and atmosphere that might allude to some momentary experience - a chance meeting, a glimpse into a garden, a coincidence, a life behind a window revealed at twilight, someone indistinct. 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As Foxx says: “I think the point of music is to remain open enough for everyone to invest with their own experiences and memories, so I’m not going to explain too much,’ he says of the album which has echoes of his own London Overgrown recordings but also Drift Music with Harold Budd, his My Lost City album and the Ghost Harmonic project. “\u003ci\u003eAvenham\u003c\/i\u003e is always a mystery, anyway - even to me - and I’ve been going there for over sixty years. It’s a real place, that’s also as mythical as the gates of Eden. So the music is likewise nebulous and impressionistic - I hope not simply nostalgic, but redolent of myriad memories and sensations, and of the view from here to a time which occurs in almost everyone’s life, when the world becomes a radiant place of infinite mystery and promise - and everything seems possible.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metamatic Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50506052501835,"sku":"2013433","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/JOHN_FOXX_AVENHAM_07440427_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727818450"},{"product_id":"metamatic","title":"Metamatic","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecorded 1979 at Pathway studios, an eight-track studio in Islington, North London, this is an album of inventive, timeless electro-pop. 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