oh great more reissues I desperately want!
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― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
PR note says "You can pre-order each release now and get instant downloads."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
Eh, not sure I need three discs of unreleased generative works and installation soundtracks from perhaps his dullest ambient era. Nice to get an official "My Squelchy Life," though.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
I will say it again: "The Harness" is the best song he's written 25 years.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
I would agree with that!
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21yu3RG80lU
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theawl.com/2014/12/brian-eno-clark-mix
― sleeve, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
I sprung for the new edition of 'Shutov Assembly'. Nice packaging, booklet with interview & extra installation images. The 35 minute bonus material is a little on the slight side and in a somewhat different style than the parent disc (has a few rhythmic pieces closer to 'The Drop' or 'Curiosities') but I still found things to enjoy about it. My hopes were high, because there's that excellent Shutov-era promo/library music album called 'Textures' which has a lot of overlap with 'Shutov' tracks, but also has five or six tracks that don't appear anywhere else that I very much enjoy - http://www.discogs.com/Brian-Eno-Textures/release/1053039
almost sprang for 'Nerve Net' 2cd to get Squelchy but that would mean having to own a copy of 'Nerve Net'
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 4 December 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
I am genuinely surprised that you dislike that record so much, I played "Fractal Zoom" on the radio a few weeks ago and it sounded great
― sleeve, Thursday, 4 December 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
I'm listening to it again now on spotify. it really let me down when it came out. today, there are moments but I can't handle 'ali click' any better now than I could then. the 80's were a dark time for high end electronic music gear, but by the late 80's things were getting interesting again this was a record which just seemed to make every digital mistake you possibly could at the precise moment other people were starting to get back on track
those are admittedly just my ears
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 4 December 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
nah that's a fair point, I know you are sensitive to that stuff
nb: I love "Ali Click", especially the remixes
― sleeve, Thursday, 4 December 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
The things you sayYou're unbelievable
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 4 December 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
http://blog.longnow.org/02014/02/28/enobooks/
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
there are about 5 books on that list I really want to read
and none I've actually read :(
― a date with density (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRiBrWY3NB4
my favorite song about the anxiety of influence
― Treeship, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
What's your second favorite?
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxnCNRm_nY
this is more about the void that opened with dylan's "retreat" into eccentricity but there is some envy here, i feel
― Treeship, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
there are definitely others i am not thinking of. it would be an interesting playlist.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
i always loved the story of david bowie playing Andy Warhol for A. Warhol at the Factory.
Bowie later played the song to Andy Warhol, who reportedly disliked it as he thought the lyrics made fun of his physical appearance. When the song had finished playing, Warhol and Bowie reportedly just stared at each other for a while until Warhol said "I like your shoes" and the pair then had a conversation about shoes.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 15:14 (eight years ago) link
lol ward
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
what about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw4w-kdu_34
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nJu5OaN40o
I'll never be a Bowie, I'll never be an Eno, I'll only ever be a Gary Numan
― doug watson, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
yess
― Treeship, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
what a burn!
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
he wishes he were Gary Numan!
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
i listen to way more gary numan than bowie
i never listen to bill callahan
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
i listen to more bill callahan than bowie and gary numan put together, frankly.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
Crut otm
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
from an interview with leo abrahams in tape op:
"I read that Brian Eno found you playingin a guitar shop, heard the soundsyou were making, and was intrigued."
"Yeah, it was really pretty crazy. I was in this secondhandmusic shop around the corner from his studio. I wastrying out a guitar, and I was testing the intonation.That was it. He walked in and came over. He wasincredibly polite and nice. He introduced himself, andI said, “Yeah, I know who you are.” He said,“Sometimes I need a guitar player. Would you like tocome to the studio?” I said, “Yeah, I’d love to.” Ididn’t hear from him for six months, and then hecalled and asked if I could come over. When I arrived,everything was already set up with the guitar pluggedinto an effects thing. I’d read about his techniques ofmoving musicians out of their typical comfort zones.I picked up the guitar, and it was completely out oftune. Not just out of tune, but the strings wereactually hanging off it. I said, “Okay, let’s start thetrack.” I improvised a load of percussive, bendy, andtalking drum sounds. I got to the end of the song. Thenext song comes on, and I said, “Oh, excuse me, butwould it be okay if I played my own guitar? I’d like toplay something melodic.” He said, “Yeah. I wasn’texpecting you to play that guitar. I was using it totest the line. But I think what you got out of it wasreally good.”
― scott seward, Thursday, 21 January 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link
oh that eno!
― scott seward, Thursday, 21 January 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
freeze frame, roll credits
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 January 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
haha
― eoy_saer (wins), Thursday, 21 January 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
It's an understandable mistake. I'm sure we all have similar Eno stories.
"Actually, 'Play The Piano As If You Had Trout For Hands' is the name of my dog."
― Meat Sheet (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 January 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
"That's no sandwich...that's my rhythm section!"
― Meat Sheet (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 January 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
I Spent 3 Weeks Working With Brian Eno On A New Album, But It Turned Out I Was Just Feeding His Cat
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 January 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
ha!
― scott seward, Thursday, 21 January 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
― akm, Thursday, 21 January 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
hahaha
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 22 January 2016 01:38 (eight years ago) link
Dennis Davis:We would get in the studio, it was really wide open. That's why I like doing recordings with (Bowie) because it was, like, real easy, you know. Until Brian Eno came along. That Brian Eno, he was a character!Brian Eno:The problem actually I had at that time was that I didn't really understand how good musicians worked. I'm not a musician myself in that sense.Carlos Alomar:Brian Eno had a blackboard, you know, like elementary school, you know. I'm like, "You've got a blackboard. So?" So we started coming up with these ideas for different chords. E, C, G, B, and so he'd go, ok, so, "I'm going to point to that chord and you play that chord "and then I'll point to another." So I'm playing and it goes D.Brian Eno:When you're working with really great players, like Carlos and Dennis, you have to accept that they have a way of processing information that is beyond intellectual.Carlos Alomar:"Dude, man. Hey, Brian, look. What are you... This is... This isn't working for me, man."Brian Eno:But with their incredibly natural musicianship, the two together produce something that, again, one wouldn't have had with either on their own.Carlos Alomar: I mean, some of it worked, some of it didn't, but quite honestly it did take me out of my comfort zone and it did make me leave my frustration at what I was doing and totally look at it from another different point of view and, although I didn't like the point of view, when I came back, I was fresh.
Brian Eno:The problem actually I had at that time was that I didn't really understand how good musicians worked. I'm not a musician myself in that sense.
Carlos Alomar:Brian Eno had a blackboard, you know, like elementary school, you know. I'm like, "You've got a blackboard. So?" So we started coming up with these ideas for different chords. E, C, G, B, and so he'd go, ok, so, "I'm going to point to that chord and you play that chord "and then I'll point to another." So I'm playing and it goes D.
Brian Eno:When you're working with really great players, like Carlos and Dennis, you have to accept that they have a way of processing information that is beyond intellectual.
Carlos Alomar:"Dude, man. Hey, Brian, look. What are you... This is... This isn't working for me, man."
Brian Eno:But with their incredibly natural musicianship, the two together produce something that, again, one wouldn't have had with either on their own.
Carlos Alomar: I mean, some of it worked, some of it didn't, but quite honestly it did take me out of my comfort zone and it did make me leave my frustration at what I was doing and totally look at it from another different point of view and, although I didn't like the point of view, when I came back, I was fresh.
from ~28:11 onwards https://vimeo.com/151364531
― niels, Friday, 22 January 2016 12:49 (eight years ago) link
At the very least, since signing to Warp Eno has proved very cooperative with the promotion cycle, leading to lots of good recent interviews. I liked this one:http://thequietus.com/articles/20034-brian-eno-favourite-records-interview
The new album is nice. Sounds a bit like one of those slowed down Bieber tracks.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 April 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
Hey, OP's in there!
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 15 April 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, that was cool.
New album, btw, is increasingly crazy and weird and original. Not what I expected.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 April 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link
only heard the title track so far but I think it's a resounding return to form, super excited
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Friday, 15 April 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
Not to play it up too much, but it's not so much a return to form as an entirely new form. What it does with vocals, or what vocals can be, is really fascinating.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 April 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
OK poor word choice, sub in "his best in a long time"
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Friday, 15 April 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
that's a really good quietus piece - it's so much more than just a list of albums.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 April 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
Orlando Ploom.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 April 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
Ottilie Patterson
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 15 April 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link