New Brian Eno

Largely true, but have you heard Another Day On Earth?

sp: "the crap they play there"

btw the last brian eno i enjoyed was 2010's "small craft on a milk sea". the big advantage compared to the new one is that it varies quite a lot. from more introspective, dreamy tracks like the first two or three to more rhythmic pieces up till harder, noisier stuff like "two forms of anger". i neiter liked the songs nor the singing on "another day on earth". there were neither enough adventurous experiments nor gripping tunes on it. for an eno album it was pretty predictable and dull.

I'd really like to hear more passive collaboration stuff from Eno and whomever, sort of like that Jah Wobble disc in reverse. Like, Eno is given someone's draft and basically has at it.

So I heard the first track off the new Eno/Hyde record High Life in my local shop today and bought it. Is this something people are talking about?
Doesn't sound like any Eno I have heard lately, really.

Briefly talked about here -- Brian Eno & Karl Hyde - Someday World (May 2014)

I prefer High Life to Someday World. High Life was recorded live with a room full of journalists then edited later for release. Think that accounts for it sounding more vibrant and exciting than Someday World. There's only one duff track on High Life.

It's a much better album than Someday World, although, listening to it made me go back and I appreciate Someday World more now somehow. High Life is probably my favorite eno release in 20 years or so.

The first track really grabbed my attention when I heard it in the shop. Of course, now having listened to the whole thing, I recognize it as an Eno record. I was completely unaware of Someday World.

someday world comes across much more of a hyde album than an eno album. but I don't like it nearly as much as his actual solo album from last year.

Someday World is like a b-sides companion to Hyde's Edgeland (which is a great album and has a nice Eno remix)
High Life is something different altogether and - like said - more of a jam record. opening track is awesome, rest is sort of ok. definetely worth checking. I need to test hypothesis about Someday World though :)

Return and Lilac both have a great guitar groove. Reminds me of classic Talking Heads.

New album The Ship to be released in april, includes VU cover

It features a cover of the Velvet Underground's "I'm Set Free," which Eno described as "even more relevant now than it did then" in a press release.

Come again?

“Written in the late sixties, Lou Reed's song “I'M SET FREE” seems even more relevant now than it did then. Perhaps anybody who's read Yuval Noah Harari's SAPIENS will recognise the quiet irony of 'I'm set free to find a new illusion'...and its implication that when we step out of our story we don't step into 'the truth' - whatever that might be - but into another story.”

I believe the "I'm Set Free" cover dates from the Another Day On Earth sessions. Perhaps it's more relevant today than it was then?

Review in the upcoming Mojo – sounds pretty interesting:

David Sheppard

BRIAN ENO: THE SHIP

Dystopian ambient song forms, with lyrics inspired by WWI and Titanic tragedies.

Initially, Eno's first solo album since 2012's art installation/ambient collection Lux feels like its close cousin - the sprawling opening (title) track commencing with familiarly tremulous, slow-motion synths inexorably rising and falling, oscillating between exquisite consonance and transient dissonance. Things change with the belated entry of Eno's vocoder vocal, pitched down to an unearthly basso profundo, his ominous narrative awash with oceanic metaphor ("The sail is down / The wind is gone") - the decelerated, portentous flipside to Before And After Science's blissfully adrift Julie With... The ensuing three-movement Fickle Sun suite heaves through yet darker synthetic soundscapes, with Eno and, sporadically, Peter Serafinowicz delivering disconsolate, Great War-referencing lyrics (created by feeding in relevant text references to something called a Markov Chain Generator), while the contrasting finale delivers redemptive relief in the shape of Lou Reed's I'm Set Free, rendered as a gracefully soaring, multi-harmony hymnal.

1/1/17 – Reflection
https://www.facebook.com/brianenomusic/photos/a.556181867729342.141504.148573968490136/1477189158961937/?type=3&theater

Pieces like this have another name: they’re GENERATIVE. By that I mean they make themselves. My job as a composer is to set in place a group of sounds and phrases, and then some rules which decide what happens to them. I then set the whole system playing and see what it does, adjusting the sounds and the phrases and the rules until I get something I’m happy with. Because those rules are probabilistic ( - often taking the form ‘perform operation x, y percent of the time’) the piece unfolds differently every time it is activated. What you have here is a recording of one of those unfoldings.

wish eno would set up a website dedicated to neverending performances of his generative pieces. let it unfold and fold and unfold again in perpetuity

Would be cool to do via the Long Now Foundation he's a part of:

http://longnow.org/

As long as he doesn't sing. Please don't ruin another album with your voice, Brian.

hahaha gtfo with that (said as somebody who loves/owns most of his non-vocal recordings)

I suppose we each have our preferences.

so you think he ruined his first four albums?

Those are not Ambient albums. He definitely ruined The Ship with his voice, for me at least.

I liked his voice on that album, personally

brian eno's thirty-year project of turning himself into a computer has done little to impress me.

you forgot to post a picture of a stern guy with his arms crossed and add "hmph" to the end of that

but i don't have any pictures of brian eno

xps oh OK I get that sentiment

LOL – we have come full circle with the "Brian, why don't you sing anymore?" stuff.

hahaha

Kinda pissed that the app version of this is available for iOS and Apple TV but not the desktop Mac OS.

whaaat

https://pitchfork.com/news/lee-scratch-perry-and-brian-eno-share-new-song-here-come-the-warm-dreads-listen/

sounds good. reggae and eno fit together.

Kinda shocking Eno, Sherwood and Perry have never worked together before, afaik.