Roxy Tapestries
Description: Howard Devoto (born Howard Andrew Trafford 15 March 1952) is an English singer and songwriter, who began his career as the frontman for the punk rock band Buzzcocks, but then left to form Magazine, one of the first post-punk bands. After Magazine, he went solo and later formed indie band Luxuria.
Description: Prog-rock guitarist Robert Fripp and art-school glam-rocker Brian Eno busted out of their respective bands, King Crimson and Roxy Music, to record 1973's touchstone No Pussyfooting. In the side-long "Heavenly Music Corporation" and its jitterier and more cluttered flip, "Swastika Girls," Eno produced the first of a long series of "discreet" and "ambient" musical offerings using a tape-loop system dubbed "Frippertronics." A subsequent CD re-release would include both works in reverse, with less difference than you might imagine. In 1975, the duo released Evening Star, a side of tranquilly droning tracks serving as appetizers for "An Index of Metals," a glorious 28-minute accrual of lighter-than-air guitar, piano, and synthesizer tones. Altho
