Roxy Music fans,

Burning Sky Records is a small label and we can’t afford to do much in the way of advertising, but the word is starting to get out about Take Refuge In Pleasure: The Songs of Roxy Music Revisited.  We have received a very positive review from premiere French music magazine Rock & Folk.  Thank you to Jerome Soligny for the review!

My French isn’t very good, and you should definitely buy the magazine yourself, but here is my attempt at translating the review – enjoy!  If you are a Roxy Music fan, you really should buy this record!

Cheers,

Alan and the Burning Sky Records Take Refuge In Pleasure Team

Take Refuge In Pleasure

There have been tribute compilations which one has dreaded listening to.  And then one beautiful day of August 2009 one arrived that one awaited hearing. “Take Refuge In Pleasure” is a single-disc homage to Roxy Music published by Burning Sky, an American label modest by size but large by ambitions, since its two preceding compilations were devoted to Jellyfish and The Posies.

If is difficult to make these albums when the pop is the refined kind. Whereas certain similar efforts, when they are orchestrated by majors, suffer from a profusion of known names and of an obvious lack of taste, “Take Refuge In Pleasure” concentrates on recordings of groups who are not (still) popular. All desire to become popular and some deserve to be so.

It is thus with ardour and determination that NOMAD 67 transforms “Re-Make/Re-Model” to kärcher grunge, that Sartre’s Lobster and The Drowners respectively make “Pyjamarama” and “Do The Strand” sound like transferred Bowie of the early 1980s, or that Matt Harris and Ian Moore do the revamped, ultra-decadent “She Sells.”

As bonus tracks on this one-disc edition, one encounters selections taken from the solo repertories of the members of Roxy Music, including a post-psych version of “Baby's On Fire” by Tommi Zender and a rather surf-core “Slave To Love” by The Evening Dolls. It is important to know that this album also exists as a 3-CD box set. In the deluxe version, it is forty groups or artists who pay homage to Roxy, grouped and solo, and the packaging, which emphasizes some kitsch goddesses of classic beauty, is the equal of the music. Very chic.  (3 stars)