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Dust [Peter Murphy] [CD] [1 disc]

Peter Murphy
1 disc

1. Things to Remember
2. Fake Sparkle or Golden Dust?
3. No Home Without Its Sire.
4. Just for Love
5. Girlchild Aglow
6. Your Face
7. Jungle Haze
8. My Last Two Weeks
9. Subway (Epilogue)
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 238
Credits

Producer Mercan Dede; Peter Murphy
Engineer Daniel Cinelli
Personnel includes: Peter Murphy (vocals, keyboards); Michael Brook (infinite guitar); Hugh Marsh (electric violin); Scott Russel (keyboards, drums); Matthew Burton (bass, programming); Mercan Dede (percussion).
Recorded at The Planet, Montreal, Canada.
Personnel: Peter Murphy (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass programming, background vocals); Michael Brook (electric guitar); Gksel Baktagir (kanun); Hugh Marsh (electric violin, keyboards); Scott Russell (keyboards, drums); Mercan Dede (drums, percussion, sampler, sound effects, turntables, background vocals); Shankar (tabla).
Audio Mixers: Mercan Dede; Peter Murphy.
Recording information: Audeon Studios, Istanbul, Turkey; The Planet, Montreal, Canada.
Unknown Contributor Role: Ertan Tekin.
Peter Murphy's sixth solo album (counting 2001's live ALIVE JUST FOR LOVE) finds the singer-songwriter aging gracefully into the role of the elder statesman of goth. As Murphy gets mellower, his vocal debt to Bryan Ferry becomes more pronounced, and the songs on DUST are nearly as mellow as Ferry's suave, post-Roxy Music work. An increased interest in world music informs much of the album, with Middle Eastern and North African melodies and instruments coloring the songs, which on the whole are delicate, meandering things that don't hold to traditional concepts like verse-chorus-verse structure (or choruses at all, much of the time).
The arrangements are rich and layered, especially on the complex "Fake Sparkle or Golden Dust" and a superior new version of "Subway" (originally released on 1995's CASCADE) that features a lovely, spidery violin line echoing Murphy's uncharacteristically wistful vocal. Stylistically akin to David Sylvian's increasingly ambient post-Japan work, DUST is dark-hued but not gloomy, and probably the prettiest album of Murphy's career.
Critic Reviews

Q (8/02, p.120) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Combines fluid Eastern rhythms, trance beats and his...still winning Bowie-croon. It's perverse, contrary and surprisingly engaging."
Alternative Press (7/02, p.88) - 7 out of 10 - "...An emotive, evocative, electrifying mystery..."