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“Romantic Times” is the 1985 follow-up to “L\u2019Amour” \u2013 and it\u2019s released as Lewis Baloue<\/strong>. The name may be slightly different, but this is absolutely our man: a familiar blond posing on the sleeve, a familiar, tortured voice pouring his heart out over languid synths and synthetic waltz beats.<\/p>\n

Remastered from a sealed, vinyl copy of the ultra-rare album, the album was discovered in the vaults of DJ and collector Kevin \u201cSipreano\u201d Howes in Vancouver, BC. It\u2019s so rare that what is, at present, the only other known copy \u2013 found in the same Calgary store where Aaron Levin discovered a batch of sealed copies of “L\u2019Amour” \u2013 is presently soaring into quadruple digits on eBay.<\/p>\n

Even engineer Dan Lowe, credited for working on the album at Calgary\u2019s Thunder Road Studios, remembered little about the session other than that Lewis seemed to be \u201cunder the influence\u201d. Yet the music is utterly captivating.<\/p>\n

The album further fleshes out the Lewis myth \u2013 we see him pictured in that white suit with his famous white Mercedes and a private jet too; we hear him focussing more intently on matters of the heart, and appearing to unravel in the process. \u201cI felt like I was witnessing a full-blown exorcism of a phantom clad in the finest linen,\u201d writes filmmaker and historian Jack D. Fleischer in his brand new liner notes. \u201cThis record went further [than L\u2019Amour ]. It was a personal plea, of sorts. Something had gone wrong. Nerves were clearly exposed.\u201d<\/p>\n

It paints Lewis, then, as being more like a David Lynch character than even his debut did, exposing the darkness beneath the sheen. The album is presently being readied for release to the throng of new fans Lewis has found, willingly or not. The man himself remains a total enigma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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“Romantic Times” is the 1985 follow-up to L\u2019Amour \u2013 and it\u2019s released as Lewis Baloue<\/strong>. The name may be slightly different, but this is absolutely our man: a familiar blond posing on the sleeve, a familiar, tortured voice pouring his heart out over languid synths and synthetic waltz beats.<\/p>\n

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