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Menu Shopping Cart Mailing List February Top Sellers Newsprint | Release ![]() £10.99 Stock coming soon Catalogue number PZLCD109 Release date 15/11/2004 Format CD Label Puzzle Billy Currie Still Movement Disc 1 1. Waving Hands In Clouds 2. Simultaneity 3. Afterglow 4. Apocrypha 5. The Waves Look Sleepy 6. Standing Still 7. Highfalutin 8. The Other World 9. Stately 10. Deflect Downward 11. Step Forward To Seven Stars Billy Currie is well known for his contribution to the group Ultravox and the studio project Visage playing Keyboards and Violin. Billy managed to secure a place at the London Royal Academy of Music in 1969 to take his next step to becoming an orchestral player but took a sharp left turn. He was invited into a band and grabbed the opportunity. This band, based in London, called Springbirth then Company Roadshow had a strong leaning towards blues and Jazz but with a rock edge. Improvisation was the way. Billy played Electric Viola and six string bass guitar with a line-up of Vocals, Guitar, Sax, Drums and Hammond B3. Billy left this band after a year and worked with the Tim Buckley styled song smith Jeff Starrs. This was a time when Billy, playing piano, started writing very emotive songs, with Jeff on vocals. They had a few big gigs supporting The Strawbs so Billy experienced the serious thrill of playing a grand piano up on stage. It was at this time that Billy worked with the amazing mellotron. Ultravox was the next band that Billy joined in 1973. Billy was still considered an electric Violin or Viola player first and it took a year for him to move into the position of keyboard player. Ultravox signed to Island Records in 1976 and went in the studio to record their first album. Billy co wrote "Slip Away" with John Foxx (Vocal) and the Mini Moog worked very well on this track. It also worked on "My Sex" - an experimental track written in the studio. Billy uses many synths on this album, as well as the Violin, and has moved forward taking things up a couple of notches from his previous album "Push". It's a Billy Currie Synthesiser Album. Eleven beautifully crafted tracks created with passion! | |
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