The Equatorial Stars

Dug this out post Eno poll – I fairly savaged it in Stylus when it came out but it sounds much better to my ears a decade on. Perhaps I am finally accepting the sound of late-period Eno, but I admire how he took the general template of Fripp's Soundscapes work and brought out the pointillism in his playing. Good for a walk in the summer dusk.

Also, in some places (ie, "Ankaa") this feels like the cousin of David Sylvian's work with Holger Czukay.

I was really disappointed at the time and never really listened since. Maybe I should try to find it and pull it out again.

As was I. But once I got over the fact that this wasn't going to be Evening Star Part II it sounded a lot better to me.

It's a good record that suffers from impossible expectations based on its creators.
Certain records are only possible at certain times- No Pussyfooting is one.

Oddly, I've always has trouble with No Pussyfooting. I'm not going to suggest TES is the more groundbreaking release or anything ... but Fripp's pedal point rhapsodizing doesn't really do it for me, as much as I love him. I much prefer Let the Power Fall when I want to hear the pre-Soundscapes/analog versions of this stuff.

Despite the fact that TES is every bit as modal, there's something really...nice and peaceful about his playing on this. Eno seems to really bring it out in him.

I don't have any problems at all with No Pussyfooting, but RF's output between the end of his sabbatical and Discipline is way underrated.