Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt announce their album Loose Talk

Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt have announced the release of their collaborative album Loose Talk – out March 28.

They released the lead single ‘Orchestra’ on Friday, accompanied by a music video shot and directed by Ferry. The track features spoken word poetry by Barratt, a performance artist, writer and painter.

“The whole experience of making Loose Talk has had an interesting newness about it. It seems to have opened a whole new chapter in my work,” said Ferry. “There’s a really strong mood to the work that Amelia does and I was very conscious of not getting in the way of her words. Hopefully, together, we’ve created something neither could do on our own.”

Each of the 11 tracks on the upcoming album features Baratt’s original spoken word poetry.

“It’s cinematic; music put to pictures,” said Baratt of Loose Talk. “There’s possibility for experimentation within a frame. And there’s a freedom in knowing exactly what my part to play is, then being able to pass a baton, stretching out creatively and knowing there is someone on the other side to take it further. Nothing feels off limits.”

Ferry described the album as uniquely original, though reminiscent of his projects with Roxy Music, ‘In Every Dream Home A Heartache,’ and ‘Mother Of Pearl.’

“I’m pleased that when we’ve played Loose Talk to people, they’ve said, ‘Oh, this sounds really different.’ That’s what I’ve always wanted with everything I’ve done, or been involved in, to be: different. Different to what you’ve heard before, or seen before. That’s the whole point of being an artist: trying to create a new thing, a new world,” he said.

Watch the music video for ‘Orchestra’ below: