Brian Eno - C or D?

freeze frame, roll credits

haha

It's an understandable mistake. I'm sure we all have similar Eno stories.

"Actually, 'Play The Piano As If You Had Trout For Hands' is the name of my dog."

"That's no sandwich...that's my rhythm section!"

I Spent 3 Weeks Working With Brian Eno On A New Album, But It Turned Out I Was Just Feeding His Cat

ha!

haha

hahaha

Dennis Davis:
We would get in the studio, it was really wide open. That's why I like doing recordings with (Bowie) because it was, like, real easy, you know. Until Brian Eno came along. That Brian Eno, he was a character!

Brian Eno:
The problem actually I had at that time was that I didn't really understand how good musicians worked. I'm not a musician myself in that sense.

Carlos Alomar:
Brian Eno had a blackboard, you know, like elementary school, you know. I'm like, "You've got a blackboard. So?" So we started coming up with these ideas for different chords. E, C, G, B, and so he'd go, ok, so, "I'm going to point to that chord and you play that chord "and then I'll point to another." So I'm playing and it goes D.

Brian Eno:
When you're working with really great players, like Carlos and Dennis, you have to accept that they have a way of processing information that is beyond intellectual.

Carlos Alomar:
"Dude, man. Hey, Brian, look. What are you... This is... This isn't working for me, man."

Brian Eno:
But with their incredibly natural musicianship, the two together produce something that, again, one wouldn't have had with either on their own.

Carlos Alomar:
I mean, some of it worked, some of it didn't, but quite honestly it did take me out of my comfort zone and it did make me leave my frustration at what I was doing and totally look at it from another different point of view and, although I didn't like the point of view, when I came back, I was fresh.

from ~28:11 onwards https://vimeo.com/151364531

At the very least, since signing to Warp Eno has proved very cooperative with the promotion cycle, leading to lots of good recent interviews. I liked this one:
http://thequietus.com/articles/20034-brian-eno-favourite-records-interview

The new album is nice. Sounds a bit like one of those slowed down Bieber tracks.

Hey, OP's in there!

Yeah, that was cool.

New album, btw, is increasingly crazy and weird and original. Not what I expected.

only heard the title track so far but I think it's a resounding return to form, super excited

Not to play it up too much, but it's not so much a return to form as an entirely new form. What it does with vocals, or what vocals can be, is really fascinating.

OK poor word choice, sub in "his best in a long time"

that's a really good quietus piece - it's so much more than just a list of albums.

Hey, OP's in there!

Orlando Ploom.

Ottilie Patterson

http://kerosenecucumbers.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/opie_pickle.jpg

He says he digs your album then before you know it he's running up to put his grubby synth arpeggios and vocals all over the next one. Guy is a menace.

Would love some of the live stuff with the Winkies with decent sound.
The Derby set is interesting but a bit distant. I think the circulating version is a couple of generations from source so I guess there's unlikely to be any improvement unless an original is found.
Was it part of a longer tour? Wonder if there is any chance of anything else turning up.

Iirc they only played a couple of gigs, same with 801.

What I did not know is that apparently the Winkies released a studio album post-Eno!

Would love some of the live stuff with the Winkies with decent sound.
a while back a guy got in touch saying his friend had a much better-sounding tape of the Derby show, but that he had never digitized it or something. was a few years ago though.

that's a really good quietus piece - it's so much more than just a list of albums.

― Karl Malone, Friday, April 15, 2016 9:15 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I agree, v interesting

xp dying over here, FIND HIM TYLER ;)

I've got an 801 live album that's pretty good

Yeah, that was cool.

New album, btw, is increasingly crazy and weird and original. Not what I expected.

New album is his best in years and years I think.

Oh, I agree. It's the first thing he's done in decades that approaches a new form, at least at times. It's like he finally applied all his generative ambient programs to singing. Even the way it's sequenced is strange and wonderful. I hope there is more where this came from.

where are you hearing it? I saw the preview of the one song but don't see the album up on spotify or apple music.

only "the ship" is available on spotify but it's awesome

Xpost it leaked a couple of weeks ago

yeah it's a wonderful record. I like both the eno/hyde albums as well. feels a bit like a rebirth for him

Reading the interviews with him acknowledging that his voice has changed as he's gotten older, combined with this being a rare foray into vocals at all (in any form), plus Bowie dying (a few years down from Lou Reed) and the album ending with a version of "I'm Set Free" (that he recorded 12 years ago), gives the whole album a ghostly vibe, especially the haunting track with the generative voice (speaking with a Flemish accent, which is the accent of his mother) delivering the random word scramble lyrics like a robot reading poetry.

Ignore the Kanye bait and focus on the other stuff in Whiney's interview: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/brian-eno-on-kanye-west-david-bowie-and-his-immersive-lp-the-ship-20160414

got to give the people what they want

there's a good idea for a piece in the history of incrementally revised / remixed software-esque editions of the 'same' album, there is absolutely no need for anyone with a mind to credit Kanye with that kind of innovation in an Eno interview. John Coltrane's 'Ascension', Grateful Dead 'Anthem of the Sun', 'Music For Films', Ground Zero's 'Revolutionary Pekinese Opera v1.28'

looking forward to the new album

yes, why didn't i mention ground zero's revolutionary pekinese opera v1.28 instead of the most famous contemporary pop musician on the planet in a rolling stone article, what a fucking bonehead move that was!

ha! that is of course not what I was suggesting of course

I totally get why Kanye's name is creeping into interviews with avant musicians, especially in this case where it's one who's been doing this for decades

good interview btw

thanks, MP! :D

Yeah, it's a good one. Eno is easy to talk to. Very engaged.

only "the ship" is available on spotify but it's awesome

It's lovely, one of Lou's best songs.

Eno has amassed an awful lot of cultural credibility and "I'm Set Free" is a nice song, and the line "I'm set free to find a new illusion" is vaguely profound, but this is about as exciting as Jad Fair doing a Shaggs cover or whatever. So Eno won't sing for like a billion years, and then he decides that VU karaoke is the best way to channel his talents?

I thought he recorded it 12 years ago?

Sorry, one billion - 12 years.

That's better.

So Eno won't sing for like a billion years, and then he decides that VU karaoke is the best way to channel his talents?
i know what you're saying, but still -- this cover is really nice.

i thought there were vocals all over the album. he can't throw in a cover of a song from his favorite album?