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In Reply to: Get the new Brian Eno! posted by Tony on June 23, 2005 at 12:24:49:
i'll check it out...Thanks..
I recently picked up "More Music for Films" and was kind of unimpressed....
The first 4 solo records are still my favs.... Warm Jets, Taking Tiger, Another Green, and Before and After. But I' really liked Music for Films, The Pearl, Thursday Afternoon and Airports. Actually the Bang on a Can Music for Airports is great too. And, Fourth World, Possible Musics with Jon Hassell is a fav too.
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Sordidman,I've been meaning to pick up more of his stuff. I'd like to complete the ambient series. I'm also interested in his collaboration with David Byrne.
So after the ambient stuff where should I go? What would be the one quintessential album of his to have?
How's the Roxy Music stuff? Is any of that worth owning? I've heard Avalon, but I don't believe he was in it then was he?
He was out of there pretty quick....I think by the second or third Roxy Music record.Pure speculation, but i think that Bryan Ferry and his "David Bowie complex" were pretty difficult to handle. A side band called "801" was formed with Phil Manzanera and some other ex-Roxy Music folks for a short time. Eno, and his strange sounds left a big hole in my opinion.
I kind of have 2 non-ambient favs, which would be Another Green World and Before and After Science which came a little later than AGW. I guess that there are more songs on Before and After, wherein AGW has some more instrumental work. Both AGW and BaaS have Phil Collins, Busta Jones, Robert Fripp and lots of great musician guests. I also really like Music for Films a lot, - but that's instrumental and starting to approach his later ambient works. His very treated Discreet Music is probably considered the first ambient recording. It's basically a classical piece, - sorry the composer's name escapes me, - slowed down and ran through two reel to reel tape machines.
The Eno/Fripp collaboration "No Pussyfooting" is also the beginnings of "Frippertronics" an ambient recording that can be interesting, - but these days, at my last visit, it was tiresome and too repetitive.
The David Byrne/Eno collaboration of "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" is more rhythmic and uses recorded voices, singing, preachers etc. etc. I haven't listened to it in a long time and have been meaning to re-acquire it. My rememberance when I sold it was that it was pretty repetitive as well: spending too much time per riff....It was incredibly well reviewed and labelled as revolutionary.
IMO, much of this stuff is fourth and fifth and sixth listen stuff. If you sit and focus on it, - it can be tiresome the first time through. But, - if you're out and about and doing something, the third and fourth listen, - at high volume, - can be pretty darn powerful.....
As an aside, I never got a chance to meet Eno, but my band had met several times with Opal Records, - Eno's label, - their A&R rep out of LA had sent all of our material off to Eno and I had a couple of interesting phone conversations with him. To me, being such a fan, it was a big deal. He's been a big influence on my life and work for sure.
Hope this helps... let me know if you have any other questions, or also fire me off an Email if you want to go offline...
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Is a beautiful album he recorded to be the soundtrack of a NASA film about the moon landings (I think) its not quite ambient but close, elgaic and beautiful and also just remastered.
And yes you are right...it's good.
Neroli is just under an hour and is a changing sequence of, I think, 11 notes, without a break...
It sounds uneventful, but is really a very beautiful listening experience.
Its also about as relaxing as anything I can think of this side of Sleep by Paul Schutze, which is on his... oh which is it?... Alone I think its called, I'll check and get back.
But Neroli is great.
Eno's stuff is awesome. I'm a huge fan. In addition to the albums already mentioned, I'll vote for "Wrong Way Up", a collaboration of Eno and John Cale (of Velvet Underground). It's poppy/synthy (imagine that!)... very fun album.As for Roxy Music... well, I can wholeheartedly recommend the following albums to check out:
Avalon (available on SACD!)
For Your Pleasure
SirenEno is nowhere to be found, but these are my personal favorites. I like all of their releases, actually. I think you'll either love Roxy or hate 'em with a passion. I love Phil Manzanera's guitar work. A kind of "everyman's Fripp".
which was Roxy Music's second album.
NT
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