Brian Eno - C or D?

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

it’s Brian emo, not eno. Big misspell and it happens throughout

Lol

that write-up was a boring excuse to go over his entire story for the 100th time.

also, was Nico really one of Eno's old collaborators? Not really. they did that 1974 concert and he did some sounds on the End.

also, the artists on that June 74 album all play with different bands, not together iirc

The intro to eno stuff was boring for those of us who know the story - maybe not so much though for the ringer audience. I was more interested in the write up of his recent shows.

eno’s slippery relationship to live performance is definitely interesting to me. not mentioned in that article are the Pure Scenius shows that happened in Sydney and the UK & which were an interesting if not always successful attempt to put some of his systems thinking and penchant for conceptual conceits into the live arena.

the sydney show was 3 two hour concerts featuring Karl Hyde, The Necks, Jon Hopkins, Leo Abrahams and Eno himself sending directions to different musicians at different times and occasionally playing keyboard and doing spoken word. some bits were definitely better than others but it was a cool thing to see and did feel true to his practice overall.

not to pile on (because good for the Ringer for featuring Eno) but . . . U.K. music magazine Trouser Press????????

It’s the Suffolk. (Population, 5000) which made me roll my eyes. Only 755,000 short.

yea was gonna say for a town of 5000 I've heard an awful lot about it

We revive this thread a day after I downloaded the '93 box set.

Box set has some essential rarities but an otherwise erratic track list. Most/much of each album, but, mysteriously, not all.

I DL'ed for the My Squelchy Life material, none of which is essential.

My Squelchy Life was officially released with the reissue of Nerve Net, iirc.

Under is one of my favorite Eno tracks.

"The Harness" is great too

yeah I recommend just getting My Squelchy Life, it's a very good album and good companion to Nerve Net even with the duplicated stuff.

That Sydney show sounds amazing; will have to look for some recordings of that

box set is the easy place to get Seven Deadly Finns though

And Lion Sleeps Tonight. But not his cover of Ring of Fire. Is that on the Wrong Way Up reissue? I think the only Eno vocal rarity I've never heard, afaict, is a cover of White Light/White Heat.

I didn't know he did either of those (ring of fire/white light), off to slsk.

Yeah ring of fire is on wrong way up reissue, it’s sort of in the style of the river from that album

I think that VU cover may have been recorded for charity, with one copy made. Eno said whoever bought it can release it, but so far nada.