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Anyone heard it? It is of course incredibly skillful, but I find it borderlining muzak / Enigma / whale songs / "no stress" cd's / cheesiness a bit more than I like. All those keyboards and flanger effects on his voice kind of put me off. The whole layering thing is amazing, though.

Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Brian Eno "Another Day on Earth" - hie thee hence. :)

Deluxe (Damian), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

Alternative universe: Eno dies from injuries sustained in that road accident in 1975, right after Taking Tiger Mountain and before he's had the chance to invent ambient. Would we think more kindly of him?

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

sorry - was looking for it but search engine came up with nothing.

Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

marcello then 1978 would never have happened

tom west (thomp), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

i might mean 1979

tom west (thomp), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

People would harp on about how mournful that last track on Taking Tiger Mountain sounds - and it does, but it'd be discussed in a way that suggested Eno foresaw his own demise. The more I think about this scenario the more I think that those first two albums are just too good to ignore, so I'm tempted to imagine he would have taken on the status of a Nick Drake of weird rock music - classic stuff that it just took a long time for a wider audience to come around to.

Deluxe (Damian), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

Would we think more kindly of him?

you talk like ambient is a far(ce)t

Joris (rizzx), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

Would we think more kindly of him?
that depends if it would have been before or after another green world, i suppose.

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

"was" instead of "would have been", probably useless that posting of mine. but did he record agw after the accident? that would be quite interesting. agw is a major musical turn in eno's career.

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

He'd have to be my loving and beloved husband of many years for me to think much more kindly of him

A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

Eno's death is a fake. He releases the ambient stuff under a pseudonym. Various mixes and remixes of the unreleased material that would have been "Another Green World" and "Before and After Science" are released with John Cale doing the vocals. "On Some Faraway Beach" becomes the soundtrack to a Volkswagen commercial, rekindling interest in this once obscure figure. Old-time fans resent the intrusion. "Another Day on Earth" is released to much hype as he reveals the 30-year-long hoax. ILMers argue about whether he's a genius or a manipulative media huxter. David Byrne's powerpoint presentations are innovative and clever, but nobody outside his company is paying attention.

Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

Good post but it's "huckster"

A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

Doh!

Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

AGW was recorded/written whilst Eno was just about getting out of bed post-smash crash. He has said in the past that the period of recooperation was vital in determining how AGW (and therefore the rest of popular music and culture) as we know it turned out.

Bother in the Ashley, Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

5 years pass...

http://brian-eno.net/

BRIAN ENO
COMING SOON ON WARP RECORDS

jaxon, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 18:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

oooooo

jed_, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 18:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

please don't let it be boring midi space jazz

disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 21:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Details:

http://brian-eno.net/#headlines

Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 August 2010 15:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

please don't let it be boring midi space jazz

I still have nightmares about The Drop

Brakhage, Monday, 23 August 2010 15:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

He really needs to retire or start making shitty soundtracks like Hans Zimmer already.

Count Scrofula (corey), Monday, 23 August 2010 16:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

The Pure Scenius stuff was okay, there'll probably be a CD of that put out before too long. The last Byrne and Eno record was great, and Drawn from Life was also good. But there are too many really weak releases of noodling like Curiosities lately.

I haven't heard Making Space but some of the same people on the new Warp record are on that one.

Brakhage, Monday, 23 August 2010 16:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

Pretty much all of his stuff from the past several years has been the product of passive collaboration (save "Another Day on Earth," which is lovely, and the Byrne). "Drawn from Life" was passive collaboration, "Spinner" was passive collaboration. This new one is the result of that live jam at the Sydney Opera House. The "recent" Fripp stuff was pretty spur of the moment, those "Curiosities" drawn from the vaults, and assembled by someone else, at that. Truth be told, I think studio-hogging bands like U2 and Coldplay take up a lot of his time, as do lectures, debates, etc. It perhaps makes sense that the last thing that engaged him creatively seems to have been programming AI/generative music, which if you think about it is not just the apotheosis of all his theories but a good exit strategy. But when people push him (not pull him along) he can still come up with the goods. I'm curious about the new one, for sure.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 August 2010 18:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

Too much thinking, not enough bizarro warp factor rocking.

disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Monday, 23 August 2010 20:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

it's gonna be a mess if
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willem, Monday, 23 August 2010 20:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

hueg sorry

willem, Monday, 23 August 2010 20:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

Generative/AI music just sounds like Cage-aping snoozefest wankery. And Cage sucks too.

Count Scrofula (corey), Monday, 23 August 2010 22:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

Counterpoint:

Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 02:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

rotate canvas

Count Scrofula (corey), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 02:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah, not holding my breath for this to be exciting, for some reason. And I really love Eno.

Zooster vs. The Slapp (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 04:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

I have a Here Come the Warm Jets t-shirt and I won't even download this.

yentl giant (corey), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 05:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

if this is like an instrumental version of Bebop Hurry ... yeah ... uh.

LA river flood (lukas), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 05:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

I do find it slightly disturbing that they are pushing the quality of the packaging and not offering any samples of the actual music.

I'd probably sell my copy if it wasn't for the hot chip remix. (Display Name), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 05:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

New Eno track is here. Infinitely better than I was expecting. I love Eno, but like some folks above I wasn't expecting much from this at all...certainly not Branca-y guitars.

bmus, Friday, 1 October 2010 21:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

That track has seriously wetted my appetite for this, much more crunchy than I would have expected.

State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Sunday, 3 October 2010 15:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

This has leaked.

SourPatchCorpse, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 20:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

well thank you

akm, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 22:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

Sarcasm? Just spreadin' the word dude. Figured people would want to know.

SourPatchCorpse, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

so?

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 21 October 2010 09:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

sourpatchcorpse, I was not being sarcastic, I was just thanking you for the heads up. what a mean world we live in. what a bitter, sour corpse you have become.

akm, Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

first impression -- standard issue eno instrumental album with occasional techno flourishes. the resemblance of the cover to the recent U2 album is misleading. i wanted something different, with some 'real songs,' more along the lines of another day on earth, his most under-rated album imho

kamerad, Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

The Turn-Off Assembley

Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Friday, 22 October 2010 00:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

*sp, see me

Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Friday, 22 October 2010 00:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

i quite liked another day on earth when i first heard it but i was really just wanting it to be good i think. i listened to it again recently and i was glad when it finished - except for one track it was very dull. i've liked the 2 streaming tracks i've heard so far on the new one but i imagine it'll have some similarities to the stuff from the recent gigs which i found underwhelming as well.

nonightsweats, Friday, 22 October 2010 04:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

haven't given this a spin yet, but another day on earth...yeah, two tracks (under, which wasn't new, and bonebomb) are incredible and the rest just floats by me, not a patch on nerve net or wrong way up. if the new one is anything like shutov that would be great, as I think that's a highly underrated album.

akm, Friday, 22 October 2010 13:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

the new one is like shutov assembly, definitely

kamerad, Friday, 22 October 2010 15:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

i totally lost interest in eno after another day on earth. it wasn't bad but it wasn't good neither. lukewarm and boring and very predictable.

alex in mainhattan, Monday, 25 October 2010 11:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

i've listened to this new one a couple of times now and it's quite ok - better than expected. there's one song that sounds like it was left over from "the drop" but he added some extra non-digital elements (a bit of guitar etc) over the top - which is what he should have done with most of that album, really.

all the energetic pieces are clumped in the middle and i think they're fine if a little formless. they're obviously based on improvs and worked upon (which i think is a great method) but the arrangements are a bit obvious.

the ambient pieces are all too digital sounding for me. i think he was trying for some of the effect of "on land" but they don't quite make it.

still and all, it's one i don't actually tire of hearing so far.

nonightsweats, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 01:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

a man of many talents

kamerad, Thursday, 4 November 2010 11:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

http://brian-eno.net/drums-between-the-bells/

willem, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 06:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

that sounds incredibly late '90s

adult music person (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 14:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

while we got an Eno thread up here

what the hell is up with the production on the Eno/Cale "Wrong Way Up" album? isn't he supposed to be a genius when it comes to production? why does it sound so shitty? btw the music itself is quite good

frogbs, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 20:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

i think it was mastered crappily. the reissue sounds much less one dimentional (flat) and "boxy"

Marquis de Sade (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 21 April 2011 00:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

That Dick Flash interview was great.

brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 21 April 2011 00:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

Technically "Wrong Way Up" is an Eno/Cale co-production, but regardless, Eno's more of an old school style producer, a great idea man who leans heavily on a rotating crew of catch as catch can engineers to make his ideas reality. But I think the dude who engineered a lot or all of this album, David Young, is a guy from Team Cale who goes way back to Cale's first solo albums. So blame him. Though I do believe this album was famously finished under duress.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

"If you have the time take a look at my dubstep demo, let me know what you think, i promise it won't be wasted time. Every opinion counts (: thanks"

lukas, Thursday, 21 April 2011 23:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

Ha -- I adore the production on the Eno-Cale album. I said so here:

http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_second_thought/brian-enojohn-cale-wrong-way-up.htm

My mom is all about capital gains tax butthurtedness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 April 2011 00:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

here is a stream of lux. it sounds pretty dull and predictable. a little like that harold budd collab "the plateaux of mirrors" but without the cottonish, absintish piano sound. it's not really bad but it's a bit like eno on auto-pilot. not that he has been piloting an album himself in the last 20 years. i just had half a listen so that harsh judgement may well be premature. i don't think this is the right music for our times. it is too slow, too boring, just flowing along. these days nobody has got the patience to listen to this kind of ambient music where hardly anything happens. not even me and i am pretty open to this kind of stuff usually. it's just NOT THERE. you need a long breath to bear this aural mobile hardly moving in the airflow.

alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:13 (6 months ago) Permalink

sold

chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:16 (6 months ago) Permalink

haha otm

Neutral Coliseums (Matt P), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:17 (6 months ago) Permalink

http://www.spin.com/articles/brian-eno-lux-stream-album

...stream for folks in the US

these days nobody has got the patience to listen to this kind of ambient music where hardly anything happens.

counterpoint: me, most of the time

the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:47 (6 months ago) Permalink

i'm lovin it

Neutral Coliseums (Matt P), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:02 (6 months ago) Permalink

I got that last one on warp and it had a couple moments, but mostly on some sub-mika vainio crunchy tracks

d-_-b (mh), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:20 (6 months ago) Permalink

He should have called it Thursday Early Evening. Which basically means, I'm into it.

Oblique Strategies, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:35 (6 months ago) Permalink

display names posting in character

d-_-b (mh), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 23:43 (6 months ago) Permalink

UPDATE: The window for our exclusive stream has ended. Pre-order Brian Eno's LUX here.

That window appears to have been a whole 12 hours.

Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 02:57 (6 months ago) Permalink

it's a bit like eno on auto-pilot. not that he has been piloting an album himself in the last 20 years.

Largely true, but have you heard Another Day On Earth?

I've been listening to his apps (Bloom and Trope) lately as I go to sleep. To me they seem like the ideal format/sound(s) for his ambient concept. Which is great. But it makes me wonder why the hell anyone would want to buy another ambient album.

FunkyTonk, Thursday, 1 November 2012 14:47 (6 months ago) Permalink

generative music is awesome

d-_-b (mh), Thursday, 1 November 2012 14:47 (6 months ago) Permalink

Buddha Machine!

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 November 2012 14:58 (6 months ago) Permalink

those aren't generative, they're loops!

(note: I own two buddha machines and the throbbing gristle buddha machine-inspired box)

d-_-b (mh), Thursday, 1 November 2012 15:14 (6 months ago) Permalink

Largely true, but have you heard Another Day On Earth?

yes i did but i didn't like it at all. i found it uninspired and without interest. maybe i need to give it another try. the new one at least seems to be more or less a perfect ambient album. the only problem: i never really was into ambient anyways and thirty years after it even makes less sense to me. maybe it'll grow on me. i can imagine settings where it could be some nice aural wallpaper in the background. for example in the supermarket. the crap the play there kills me every time i have to go shopping.

alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 1 November 2012 20:45 (6 months ago) Permalink

sp: "the crap they play there"

alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 1 November 2012 20:47 (6 months ago) Permalink

btw the last brian eno i enjoyed was 2010's "small craft on a milk sea". the big advantage compared to the new one is that it varies quite a lot. from more introspective, dreamy tracks like the first two or three to more rhythmic pieces up till harder, noisier stuff like "two forms of anger". i neiter liked the songs nor the singing on "another day on earth". there were neither enough adventurous experiments nor gripping tunes on it. for an eno album it was pretty predictable and dull.

alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 3 November 2012 22:19 (6 months ago) Permalink

I'd really like to hear more passive collaboration stuff from Eno and whomever, sort of like that Jah Wobble disc in reverse. Like, Eno is given someone's draft and basically has at it.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:45 (6 months ago) Permalink


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