Brian Eno - C or D?

orange blossom, fennel, petrichor

otm

Gym socks, tic-tacs, Drakkar Noir

Library, paw-paw, hummingbird’s breath

any of you doing this?

The unreleased archive of Brian Eno is now available for all Sonos Radio listeners.
The Lighthouse spans decades of Eno’s extensive archive, serving as a living collection to premiere unreleased past and new musical projects from an illustrious career spanning more than 50 years of creating, producing, and redefining music.⁠⁠
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YSI??

I heard the first one. Are there more if you subscribe?

It's a radio station that's exclusive to Sonos users. I've had it on a bit over the last few days and there's some nice stuff in there.

I have no idea who Fred Again is, but his new album with Eno is pretty.

apparently it's his neighbor who also worked as a studio assistant with him.

also yes it is a perfectly lovely album, really good.

only caught one song but yeah sounds very good

fred just played madison square garden with skrillex and four tet

Eno performing The Ship with an orchestra later this year in London - https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/gigs/brian-eno-baltic-sea-philharmonic

Eno performing The Ship with an orchestra later this year in London - https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/gigs/brian-eno-baltic-sea-philharmonic🕸

This is kind of intriguing to me ... my 50th birthday is this year and my wife and I have been talking about going to Paris at some point again (where he's also playing). So ... maybe?

I keep reading "Eno's first-ever tour" and I'm like... huh? I am sure that he did at least a half-dozen UK dates to support Warm Jets in the 70s, non?

Eh, iirc he played a few dates with the Winkies, and the shows with Manzanera, Cale, Ayers, etc al., but not much

unless he suffers another collapsed lung, it could be the first solo tour he's completed successfully.

Huh I thought that he’d like “properly toured” Warm Jets (at least in the UK) and resolved that it wasn’t for him. Anyway maybe my memory fails me

lol tyler

I keep reading "Eno's first-ever tour" and I'm like... huh? I am sure that he did at least a half-dozen UK dates to support Warm Jets in the 70s, non?

fgti you're correct - he played five or six dates (so at least as many as this tour) for here come the warm jets with the winkies as his backing band, but the rest of tour was cancelled after he suffered a collapsed lung. then he later gave interviews saying he really didn't like touring and wasn't interested in doing it again.

H/T to Gerald McBoingBoing for flagging this for me:

One-Off Live Collaboration Between Eno, Czukay And Schwalm Set For Release Christian Eede , September 4th, 2023 12:58

Groenland is planning to give a first-time release to the recording of a one-off live collaboration involving Brian Eno, Can's Holger Czukay, and J. Peter Schwalm.

The three musicians were joined by members of Schwalm's group Slop Shop, namely Raoul Walton and Jern Atai, for the performance. It took place in August 1998 outside the Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany – in Bonn, Germany, at the opening party for an exhibition involving work by Eno.

The release of the recording takes its name, SUSHI! ROTI! REIBEKUCHEN!, from that event. The album, a press release says, captures "the highlights of what ended up a three-hour improvised show which, legend has it, only came to an end after police arrived to turn off the power."

Groenland's summary of the event adds: "As guests enjoyed the titular foods provided by three top chefs, the band built upon ideas prepared by Schwalm, whose Makrodelia album earlier that year had impressed Eno and with whom Eno would go on to release Drawn From Life in 2001. The collective had rehearsed only once the day before, with Eno choosing to remain merely a spectator."

Groenland will release SUSHI! ROTI! REIBEKUCHEN! in April 2024.

https://thequietus.com/articles/33377-one-off-live-collaboration-between-eno-czukay-and-schwalm-set-for-release

I've seen some clips on YT of this but never knew the context of how it came together.

FINALLY, I have had an audience recording boot of this for years

introduced all of my students to Music for Airports (and Brian Eno) today
perfect soundtrack for small group discussions -- they are surprisingly into ambient music but none of them knew about Eno. I can't wait to tell them that he composed the Windows 95 sound :)

My 8 year old has been going to sleep at night while listening to Thursday Afternoon for a few years now.

Do they know what Windows or 1995 is? :)

They might — they’re interested in the recent past. I’m sure they’ll understand what it means to design a ubiquitous sound.

Brian Eno is doing a small, unique tour with the Baltic Sea Philharmonic at the moment, playing the album 'The Ship' in its entirety & a handful of extra tracks. I was fortunate to attend his performance in Utrecht last Saturday. Stunning, really. The orchestra and some additional special guests (including Peter Serafinowicz!) make up for a total of 40 people on stage surrounding Eno himself.

Inbetween songs, Eno spoke to the audience a couple of times and was very vocal about political issues. He told of three members of the orchestra who had to leave after today as they could not get proper visas, calling out the politics of the UK and expressing hope for a change of government and a change of many things (including rejoining the EU). An even longer and heavier speech was about the situation in Gaza, which depressed him so much that he had to speak up against it, rueing the fact that the world does nothing against the actions of the government of Israël. He emphasized that it was not an issue of Jews or even religion but 'people wanting peace versus people who profit from war'. He was hoping for everyone to protest against the current situation as much as they can, writing to their political representatives; and giving aid to victims of the war where possible. The piece 'Making Gardens Out Of Silence' was then introduced as a requiem for the victims. A moment earlier, they also performed 'Bone Bomb' which he wrote once after reading an article about a Palestinian girl who did not see any other option than to become a suicide bomber.

So pretty heavy and sad sometimes, but very good to hear his voice of reason, not afraid to voice his perspectives on matters and voicing them well; and there were also lighter moments and some quips that made me laugh. And the music was very, very beautiful. 'By This River' was an amazing setlist surprise.

Saw that Geeta D said on Twitter X he sang Velvet Underground “I’m Set Free” with orchestra at what I think was the London gig

I think it's on the album. Yes it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1H_PyWh9cw

if he's still a Lib Dem i'd be heckling the politics shit

Eno a clue in today’s NYT mini crossword. Surprisingly ticked to see it.

He’s always in the regular crossword. One of their go-to words that fills in the puzzles.

Such common crossword-ese that there was a recent AV Club clue about Roger Eno.

What was the clue?

"Coldplay enthusiast"

6 down, "He played on your favourite Robert Calvert solo albums"

"Urinated into a wine bottle because they couldn't be bothered to get up from the sofa where they were watching TV"

"Had sex with 6 women in one night then was hospitalised with a collapsed lung"

"Person in possession of a vestigal organ that may be somewhat enlarged"

Cryptic crossword, "It only takes one brain to make ambient music"

“hot to trot for ocular disorders”

wait, all of these things are true about roger eno too?

Cryptic crossword, "It only takes one brain to make ambient music"

https://www.theringer.com/music/2023/12/26/24014289/brian-eno-tour-career-retrospective

One of the first experiments along these lines was Discreet Music. The first track is a generative drone composed for King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp to noodle over, followed by a suite of three experimental versions of “Canon in D Major.” If you need a Brian Eno album to study to, this is it.

Using "noodle" here rather than "solo" or "improvise" is really pissing me off, possibly more than it merits (or possibly not).

no such thing as a JCS3 synthesizer

On the "JCS3" tip...

an immaculate cover of his old collaborator Nico, “I’m Set Free,”

I'm Set Free is from the decidedly Nico-free self-titled VU album. Sloppy things happening in this article!

*self-titled third VU album