The two founding members of Roxy Music talk 50 years of collaboration, new music and their former band's recent reunion.
Since meeting for the first time when they joined the first lineup of Roxy Music, guitarist Phil Manzanera and woodwind player Andy Mackay have remained in each other’s orbits for the better part of five decades. When that band called it quits in 1983, the two formed a new group, The Explorers, and later recorded under their own names for a pair of albums that utilized a deep bench of supporting players like bassist Tony Levin, drummer Steve Gadd and members of 10cc and Moody Blues.
Thrilled though they were at how well all those performances went down, Mackay and Manzanera are even more excited at how their time together helped spark the creation of new music in the form of the cleverly-titled album. Released last Friday through Manazera’s own Expression Records imprint, the music was first built by layers during COVID lockdowns. The two would share tracks, adding elements and slowly letting them take shape.
Was it a process then of getting these longer pieces of music and extemporaneous material and editing them down into song form?I definitely edited stuff. I’d sit here and just do crazy stuff. Play anything, and then play anything on top of anything. There’s a few tracks where it seems to shift the whole time. I’ve got no idea what I did. It’s just primitive. I did an album once calledbecause I’m still sort of a primitive. I’m not that schooled. I was anti-technique really.
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