Brian Eno - C or D?

Some stuff on the underrated second Brian Eno/Karl Hyde album is as lovely as anything he has ever done. Thinking specifically of "Cells & Bells," which is ... not on youtube.

https://www.beatport.com/track/cells-and-bells-original-mix/5573621

both of those hyde albums are great. I liked the second one more than the first when it came out, but now I like them both equally.

yeah these days I can't remember which one was slighted in the reviews

i thought the second one was the more celebrated of the two. never got round to hearing the first because of all the reviews i saw were kind of lukewarm

they pair together extremely well. but cells and bells is the best song from either album and it's weird that it was only released on the vinyl.

First one got a lukewarm reception, second one much more enthusiastically received. But because the first one got the lukewarm reception a lot of people didn't listen to the second one, which is why I said it was underrated. I should have said it was under listened to.

the second one was allegedly more off-the-cuff and improvised than the first. although it doesn't really sound that way to me.

anyway lately I've been getting into Roger Eno, who I dismissed for years. But Voices is a very lovely album, and I even like the new-agey boring Channel Light Vessel and the album with Kate St. John.

I wasn't aware that I'd missed an exclusive Eno/Hyde track. But it's "On A Grey Day" not "Cells and Bells", right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfgm-zrA3X8

Okay, that's tremendous and def worth the search. And since I picked up the CD of High Life, I don't have "Slow Down, Sit Down and Breathe" either. Disappointing although this one seems to have a lesser impact.

I've also been on a Roger Eno reevaluation. He's far deeper into the classical/romantic pool than his brother but Roger's albums are only a short distance from latter period Roedelius and all of the currently hip 80s instrumental artists from Japan, Spain and Italy. You might want to check the more rhythmic collaborations with Plumbline, which are livelier than the CLV albums.

(Roger) Eno's "Voices" is a beaut. It's produced by Lanois and features Brian, which makes it a close cousin to "Apollo," in some regards. This is my fave from it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_G5JSIg_w

Mine is “Grey Promenade,” the last track. The warble on the piano reverb is exquisite. Tho I actually prefer Roger’s second album, Between Tides, which is less indebted to Eric Satie and produced by Michael Brook.

Deep cut!

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

love that whole album, recently listened to it!

same here. it's

i think maybe it's my favorite of his krautrock collabs?

How have I never heard or heard of this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGoom7z-CtM

Not bad! It's a couple former Adam Ant guys.

Huh, and this one:

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

And this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-LGpwT7kEw

Marco Pirroni is a bit more than just a couple former Adam Ant guys.

The Models. The first appearance of Sioxsie and the Banshees, the amazing Rema Rema. Also co-wrote most of Adam Ant's hits. Punk rock legend.

Oh, I know who he is, but I think co-writing most of Adam Ant's hits is his most prominent achievement.

Dirk Wears White Socks is very Eno influenced.

i like that wolfmen album a lot!

Don’t forget this one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EDMZAA7zM

That one I actually knew!

Brian Eno with Kevin Shields - The Weight Of History (8:53) / Only Once Away My Son (9:10)

2-track double A side 12". Strictly limited one time vinyl pressing for Record Store Day 21 April 2018

ok whoa

Released on May 4th 2018, ‘Music For Installations’ is an extensive collection of new, rare and previously unreleased Brian Eno recordings from his critically acclaimed audio-visual installations covering the period 1986 to the present. Available as 6 CD and 180GM 9 LP box sets and as a limited, highly collectable super-deluxe 6-CD set. Each edition includes an original Eno essay and for the deluxe CD, a unique, individually numbered Plexiglass cover book.

https://www.spin.com/2018/03/brian-eno-music-for-installations-box-set/

sounds cool!

really cool! out of my price range, but i really hope a friend gets it so i can check it out someday

Track list from the Astralwerks website

Music From Installations (previously unreleased):
01: ‘Kazakhstan’ [Premiered at the Asif Khan-designed installation ‘We Are Energy’ in the UK Pavilion at Astana Expo 2017 in Kazakhstan]
02: ‘The Ritan Bells’ [Premiered at an installation by Eno at Ritan Park in Beijing, China as part of the British Council’s ‘Sound in the City’ series, 2005.]
03: ‘Five Light Paintings’ [Premiered at an installation by Eno called ‘Pictures Of Venice’ at the Gallerie Cavallino, in Venice, Italy, 1985.]
04: ‘Flower Bells’ [Premiered at an installation by Eno called ‘Light Music’ at the Castello Svevo in Bari, Italy, 2017.]

77 Million Paintings (previously unreleased):
01: ‘77 Million Paintings’ [Premiered at the inaugural exhibition of ‘77 Million Paintings’ at La Foret Museum Tokyo, Japan, 2006.]

Lightness – Music For The Marble Palace (previously only available as a limited-run CD, via Enostore only):
01: ‘Atmospheric Lightness’
02: ‘Chamber Lightness’
[Premiered at the Eno installation ‘Lightness in the Marble Palace’ at The State Russian Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, 1997.]

I Dormienti / Kite Stories (previously only available as separate limited run CDs, via Enostore only):
01: ‘I Dormienti’ [Premiered at an eponymous installation by the Italian sculptor Mimmo Paladino at The Undercroft of The Roundhouse in London, 1999.]
02: ‘Kites I’
03: ‘Kites II’
04: ‘Kites III’
[Premiered at an installation by Brian Eno at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, 1999.]

Making Space (limited-run CD previously only available at Eno installations and on the Lumen website):
01: ‘Needle Click’
02: ‘Light Legs’
03: ‘Flora and Fauna’ / ‘Gleise 581d’
04: ‘New Moons’
05: ‘Vanadium’
06: ‘All The Stars Were Out’
07: ‘Hopeful Timean Intersect’
08: ‘World Without Wind’
09: ‘Delightful Universe (seen from above)’
[Compiled by Eno for sale exclusively at his installations, this was first made available while guest artistic director of the Brighton Festival, 2010.]

Music For Future Installations (previously unreleased):
01: ‘Unnoticed Planet’
02: ‘Liquidambar’
03: ‘Sour Evening (Complex Heaven 3)’
04: ‘Surbahar Sleeping Music’

lmao

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Unfortunately this is sold out:

https://www.bl.uk/events/brian-eno-music-for-installations

But this is ongoing, though typical of the British Library to not exactly shout it from the rooftops:

https://www.bl.uk/events/enoshop-pop-up

... everything from wallpaper music to wallpaper wallpaper!

ICYMI, he's got his own twitter account now

On May 4, I will release Music For Installations, a massive box set of all the new, rare, or unreleased music I’ve written for various art installations from 1986 on. I plan to be tweeting about it.

— Brian Eno (@BrianEnoMusic) April 15, 2018

is it legit? dunno.

https://twitter.com/BrianEnoMusic/status/985579839821352960

Yeah I'm ENO who fucking cares

— Brian Eno (@BrianEnoMusic) April 4, 2018

seems legit to me

haha not legit (though the box set is real)

lol, that first tweet i posted (https://twitter.com/BrianEnoMusic/status/985579839821352960) was posted 4 minutes ago, and has already been deleted. it said something like "i'll do soundcloud reposts for $50 a pop"

i wonder if someone DM'd them and told them that was illegal or something. i'm not sure if it is illegal to impersonate someone else and then offer to repost soundcloud songs for $50 a pop, but it would be a really interesting trial

haha yeah, that might go beyond a "parody account" defense.
fake twitter accounts are pretty irritating — i've been seeing people reposting the Bill Murray one with something about Syria, saying "Bill is the best" etc.
Obviously a small thing to complain about, but still ...

it's a contemporary example of the hyperreal

i have 0 tolerance for fake accounts
like Brian Eno would say "who fucking cares"?!

man, i love brian eno, and i love Reflection, but goddammit brian eno you have to lower the price down from $30.99.

has anyone else read "A Year With Swollen Appendices"? I'm into late April and... it does not really paint a very flattering picture of the artist, imo.

which maybe is to his credit, like a warts-and-all approach? I dunno, I'm finding it disillusioning.

like he's already yelled at his kids and made them cry like three times

I bought the 2004 remaster of B&AS -- damn, so many instruments I hadn't heard before. Phil Collins is insane on "No One's Receiving."

has anyone else read "A Year With Swollen Appendices"? I'm into late April and... it does not really paint a very flattering picture of the artist, imo.

― sleeve,

I love the in-the-studio moments with Bowie and U2. I even enjoy the drinking-at-Bono's-chateau sections. In my early teaching days, I used his lecture on culture a couple times.

yeah I did really like the "Outside" parts, it's the personal stuff that grates

lots of great quotes and tossed-off ideas, for sure, and I love reading about his working methods and music theories

also those 2004 remasters are fantastic, agreed

like he's already yelled at his kids and made them cry like three times

― sleeve,

kids are annoying sometimes idk

No CD version of the box set, huh?