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The Variance

Andy Bell

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Release Date:  04 September 2015

Label:  Sfe / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5013929845329

Genres:  Pop  

  • Description

    Andy Bell's critically acclaimed electro-acoustic cabaret show and album 'Torsten The Bareback Saint' was a brave and unexpected career move in 2014 from his comfort zone of being lead singer with Erasure, one of the world's most successful synth-pop band.

    Classic Pop magazine awarded it 5 star. After performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and before starting to write the second Torsten episode 'Torsten The Beautiful Libertine', songwriters Barney Ashton-Bullock and Christopher Frost, producer Michael J. Allison (Olivia Newton-John, Cliff Richard, Freddie Mercury) and Andy Bell himself collaborated in re-fashioning some of the album tracks purely for fun.

    These remixes include re-sung vocals, alternate and new lyrics and new instrumentation. There are three remixes specifically made for the radio; two danceable remixes of 'Weston-Super-Mare' connecting the Torsten project back to Andy's more familiar Erasure electro-pop heritage (thanks to synth-pop stalwarts Dancing With Ruby and mOOger!) and there's a complete electro-pop re-work of fan favourite track 'Bingo Hall Baby' which has more than a touch of the Alan Bennett about it.

    The experimentation was perhaps at its most abstract on the Industrial Soundscape Mix of 'Weston-Super-Mare' which perhaps recalls early noise terrorists Cabaret Voltaire and Einsturzende Neubauten.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Weston-Super-Mare (Radio Super Mix)
      • 2. Weston-Super-Mare (Extended Version)
      • 3. Weston-Super-Mare (Dancing With Ruby Remix)
      • 4. Weston-Super-Mare (Mooger Remix)
      • 5. Weston-Super-Mare (Industrial Soundscape Mix)
      • 6. Bingo Hall Baby (Electropop Remake)
      • 7. I Don't Like (Radio Remix)
      • 8. Fountain of Youth (Radio Remix)
      • 9. Torsten the Bareback Saint (Promotional Medeley)