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the cd arrived in my mail today. oh goody!
first impressions: definitely worth the years of waiting but it's not world shattering by any means.
lots of lovely deep bass, reverbed soundscape stuff from eno (i'm sure he can do this in his sleep) with quite laid back quitar from fripp.
obviously there's nothing as exciting as the 1st minute of the solo from 'swastika girls' and there's nothing remotely as pretty or structured as the 1st 4 tracks on "evening star" but they still sound like they could play forever and get interesting results (notwithstanding 'healthy colours').
i suppose it lies mostly in the realms of eno's more fiddly ambient like "on land" or "apollo" mixed with a goodly portion of "index of metals"
at only 48 mins long, it's one to play a few times at least...
― phil turnbull (philT), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 07:06 (nineteen years ago) link
two weeks pass...
nine years pass...
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.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:25 (nine years ago) link
Also, in some places (ie, "Ankaa") this feels like the cousin of David Sylvian's work with Holger Czukay.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link