Tourism

This album (Roxette's fourth), released 1992, was a great idea. Roxette recorded their live concerts and studio remixes and put them onto this album! I have to admit, that live appereance of The look is simply perfect. And many others. Of cource there are some new songs.

A little bit of quotation:

This is not a live album.

It's a tour album!

„Tourism was basically written and recorded during our first tour Join the Joyride 1991-1992 which spread its wings over 4 continents. Some 1,5 million people joined us at these 107 concerts. We thank you all. You've made these 12 months on the road into an extraordinary and everlasting memory for us.

Our idea was to create and collect material along the way; to record our music in different enviroments in different parts of the world; to take advantage of the excitment and the energy within the band on a tour like this.

Studios in Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, Copenhagen and Stockholm were used. Concerts in Sydney, Zurich and Santiago were recorded. An empty nightclub in Sao Paulo was turned into a primitive recording studio and every humid hotelroom in Buenos Aires was transformed into an 8-track recording facility for the completion of two songs.

No overdubs whatsoever have been added to the live rocordings which means that what you hear is what you got in the first place! Hope you enjoy it as much as we have.”

Per and Marie

Stockholm, July 1992