Brian Eno - C or D?

McEntire bought his Putney from Oberlin. Stupid conservatory thought they didn’t need it.

xpost for sure! I guess that and the impossibly abstruse architecture of the DX7 are the two environments he most dug

I agree on your ranking, Alfred. The sheer explosion of creativity on the first album still leaves me speechless. Rarely has a pop album been so exciting. I think the only one which can compete in terms of going in so many different directions is the first Roxy Music album.

I prefer taking tiger mountain to here come the warm jets.

xps to Dan - wow!

They had another one. But then they sold a huge moog modular after I left. They kept the buchla.

My friend Phil put a deposit of £200 down on an AKS with EMS themselves in May 1994 and he's just taken possession of it last week!

Eno was famously detail oriented when it came to figuring those synths out. He was one of the few to master the DX7.

Xxps on reflection...

Green World
Science
Day on Earth
Tiger
Warm Jets
Wrong Way Up

Ambient with Budd - ON LAND - its great mysteru

I can get with Alfred's ranking. But what about Nerve Net and Squelchy Life?

(fwiw I'd put Squelchy above Wrong Way Up and Nerve Net below it)

sorry not WWU, I meant Another Day on Earth

excellent list (though my personal fave is before and after science)

I can get with Alfred's ranking. But what about Nerve Net and Squelchy Life?

― akm, Thursday, October 4, 2018

NN has vocals of a sort, but I don't rate it. I remember the excitement of buying the "Ali Click" CD single, though!

that "Long Trance" remix of Ali Click is soooo good

“Spider and I” has the we’ve-reached-the-summit quiet exhilaration that the title track to Taking Tiger Mountain fails to evoke

truest of truths, highest of highs

i love "my squelchy life" (and am glad it's now finally been officially released in its entirety) - i don't know if i'd put it over any of the Big Four but it's not far behind! in fact i'm just gonna listen to "the harness" again

brian eno's first teacher at art school:

“On our second day there, our first drawing exercise was to make a visual comparison between a venetian blind and a hot water tap. It was meant to be in terms of how they functioned, not in terms of how they looked. And this boggled everyone.

“And then the first main project was that the students were put in pairs, and each pair of students had to invent a game, the function of which was to make some kind of psychological behavioral evaluation of people who played it. So they weren’t necessarily competitive games, they were games that involved making a decision rather than a number of others, and then extrapolating things about people’s personalities on the basis of those decisions. I think there were thirty students altogether, so there were fifteen games made. They varied through all sorts of things: mine was a kind of board game, others were whole rooms that you went through and did various things in. Anyway, all the students went through this, and consequently each student ended up with fifteen so-called character profiles. From those character profiles you had to make what was called a Mind Map, which was a kind of diagrammatic scheme of how you tended to behave in lots of different situations, and then the next part of the project was that you had to then assume a character who was as far as possible opposite to that one, and that was who you were to be for the rest of the semester, which was like eight more weeks. This was very, very interesting.

“And then we were put into groups of five on the basis of these new assumed characters. The meekest person would be like the group policymaker, and the one who tended to talk most would be who got to do all the dirty work, like buying things from the shops. He would be the dogsbody; that was my job, actually. And so you had people working with characters who were quite alien to them.

“And each group of five had another project that was a very complicated one that I can’t explain, but we had to make the projects using those characters.

“There were some funny things (that) happened. There was one girl who was very timid, so part of her Mind Map stipulated that she had to walk this tightrope in front of the whole group every morning. This was her own stipulation, you know, these things weren’t imposed; having designed your own Mind Map you then worked out a number of behavior patterns that you carried out.

https://www.wired.com/2009/03/how-people-li-1/

curious about this:

As part of the Warp Records takeover on NTS Radio, Brian Eno has teamed up with Extinction Rebellion to create an hour long piece which will be broadcast on Sunday June 23rd at 16.00 BST - https://nts.live/wxaxrxp

I’m not sure if it’s fair to describe an invited guest DJ sesh as a “takeover”

But that sounds cool!

I’m not sure if it’s fair to describe an invited guest DJ sesh as a “takeover”

I went to Warp’s takeover of the Tate Modern in 2013 and that only went for about four hours. this is a little more substantial

over 100 hours of “exclusive mixes, live sessions, videos, unreleased material, new compositions and experimental free-form radio,”

warp will not let up until NTS issues an unconditional surrender

Eno will one day be totally simulated on a crystal computer

Ha, like this won't be a generative performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKiXwtIFMKY

I'll see that (hilarious) video and raise you this: https://www.facebook.com/danergy/videos/10156118856420745/

22 months old when that video was shot.

here's a more recent one, Eno makes a brief mention:

https://www.facebook.com/danergy/videos/10156478785910745/

2 and 4 months.

Excellent work, Dan. The indoctrination appears complete.

lol what a great age!

Nice little video on Apollo and the making of the new material: https://youtu.be/WTxkLGBkcO0

Clarification: good, but not as good as Dan’s daughter.

My daughter had to watch "The Lovely Bones" for a class (to compare it to the book), and since I'd never seen it I watched it a bit (pretty turgid stuff). However, while I knew it had an Eno score, I always thought it was just bits and pieces of ambient leftovers, so I was shocked to hear that it uses huge hunks of his '70s vocal work! Weird choice that doesn't really work, but kind of cool to see, for example, Marky Mark get beat up to "Baby's On Fire."

ugh that is an abomination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPY0rW6Paqo

Lol. He should put out an entire album of protest music, especially if it gets him to sing more.

Sounds like an outtake from the Kinks' Preservation Act 2

Roger and Brian Eno Announce New Album Mixing Colours

Missed this. Roger and Brian have their first joint album out on Deutsche Grammophon, March 20. First track is up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKeK_alwonk

Love that this is happening. They’ve done less work together than you’d think but the work they have done is quite good. In addition to Apollo, the concluding track on Roger’s Voices is just magic. Roger’s second record, Between Tides (produced by Michael Brook and w no Brian involvement) is a total masterpiece.

I believe they were somewhat estranged until recently.

three very moving comments on a YouTube upload of a Brian Eno ambient album pic.twitter.com/PZOwpbYXsW

— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) February 13, 2020

Two of my students’ reactions to Music for Airports:
“This sounds like waiting in line”
“Music for those fancy bathrooms”
I reminded them that what they described is basically an airport experience and they loled and agreed 😀✈️

lol at those youtube comments, a+

ll you should ask your students to imagine what airports and fancy toilets sounded like before brian eno

fancy toilets sounded like before brian eno

They probably sounded pretty shitty.

“This sounds like waiting in line”
“Music for those fancy bathrooms”

OTM.

and xpost I could have sworn that Music for Airports was ironically most often used in hospitals, for women giving birth. Unless that was Discreet Music ...

ll you should ask your students to imagine what airports and fancy toilets sounded like before brian eno
i basically did -- we talked about what ambient music is and why anyone would want it, music for specific purposes etc. we were working on listening and describing. they did really well!

i am all for more eno in schools, so thank u for yr service

i work at a college, but Eno in school beats what i had to deal with in hs. they used to play a top 40/pop r&b station between classes and one day it changed format to "alternative". on that day, they played "it's the end of the world as we know it" continuously for 24 hours. that was a very weird day at school.

pardon this off-topic aside but i was wondering what my high school experience would/could have been like if eno had been playing between classes.

blissful, serene, boundlessly creative