Brian Eno - C or D?

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?

like he's already yelled at his kids and made them cry like three times
show me a parent who hasn't!

i read on some faraway beach and my worst impression was that he was an insufferable perv and probably a bit precious about his ideas
nothing severely offputting, or not enough to bother me

that's closer to what grates on me, also just yr basic "first world problems" eyerolls

I should withhold further judgement until I finish it...

i give him a 1970s pass for crazy behavior
it's a merciful world if we are not all judged by how pervy we were at our worst!

Stay Pervy I say!

26th August:
Pissed into an empty bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss', so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing.

It's a weird book for sure. His obsession with photoshopping female arses is a detail that sticks in my memory.

Worst part of Year With Swollen Appendices is him bitching about Graceland, tries to allege that Simon invaded his personal cultural space, ie, the white guy bringing African music to the masses... Pretty sure he uses the phrase “my personal garden” to refer to African music commercially released in the West.

Was ages ago that I read it but I remember my biggest lol being him complaining about a massive surplus of wibbly instrumental ambient CDs flooding the market, saying in response, I want words! I want messages! What kind of music offers that? Rap? Hmm, no not that...

omg wow
that's petty & gross
i think bitching in general is nagl

he needs to get a filter for his thoughts to filter these things out before he commits them to writing

If you're not prepared to show us your warts, don't publish a diary.

yeah that's fair, I was just surprised that so much relatively unflattering stuff got left in

26th August:
Pissed into an empty bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss', so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing.

LOL, yes I remember that bit. I always remember his Top Tip on how not to forget to save stuff you're working on on a computer, which was put a book on your head and every time it falls off, save. I've never done it though, but I'm not convinced Eno has either.

has he mentioned the book since or has he kind of disowned it?

I'd be surprised if he disowned it tbh

Heh xp everyone remembers the piss-drinking bit if nothing else, it is one of the top Brian Eno piss anecdotes (there are a few because eno is a piss guy)

I haven't read it in years but I don't remember him coming out of it too bad.

It’s mostly fine, lots of oh I could spend New Years Eve with Bono in Sarajevo but I’m just not feeling it, would love to shag his wife though, maybe next year? kinda stuff. He reveals he’s never been paid any royalties for Are We Not Men? Somewhere on ILM sexyDancer I think called him a “flouncing housewife” with basically no responsibilities and who’s never held to account and that seems accurate to me.

Also worth noting he writes a lot about the War Child charity which turned out to be a total scam a couple years later. He also gets rolled with some kind of elaborate gym membership after a lady trainer praises him. He published a diary too late imo, he’s mostly just a clueless rich asshole at this point, more than 20 years ago now...

Somewhere on ILM sexyDancer I think called him a “flouncing housewife” with basically no responsibilities and who’s never held to account and that seems accurate to me.

this sounds pretty sexist to me; to me he sounds like petulant (and gross) adolescent who hasn't realized that his every thought does not need to be seen/heard

yeah sorry, search isn’t turning up the post I was thinking of so I’m probably misremembering, apologies to sexyDancer, your simile is much more accurate for sure

it's fine i just don't like the feminization of his behavior, which seems textbook brat to me. that is the word to comes to my mind at least.

sexydancer doesn't post anymore does he?

Was War Child “a total scam”? Or was there some corruption in later years? Not sure why this would be a knock regardless as this article suggests the latter and that Pavarotti and Eno both resigned as a result:

https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2017/apr/10/whistleblower-war-child-need-anonymity-corruption

Anyway, I loved Swollen Appendices BTW – for many of the reasons many seem to be criticizing it. The warts, the admitted ass-love, the dilettante-ism, the risotto recipes and doting dad stuff (doesn’t he take baths with his young daughters?). This was a pretty active time for him as well (Passengers, Wobble, Outside, early James sessions for Whiplash).

My favouritest part of the Eno diary when I was a teenager was when he railed against Saul from James and his inability to stick with a single good idea

I don't know why I liked that so much! I think I just wanted to be in James, instead of Saul

I was fascinated by the descriptions of the way Bowie worked on "Outside"

So, the Music For Installations box...

Gorgeous throughout (unsurprisingly), quite varied in tone and intent (surprisingly), included book more or less distills Eno's whole worldview into a lovingly written record of his experiments with light and sound... anybody else enjoying?

Your fellow davey has listened a few times. V much enjoyed

Dumb plexiglass thing down to £182 from Amazon Italy for a short while (still £330 in the UK apparently)

https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B07B627BXH/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=superdeluxe0d-21&linkId=576ac644ae89733e362c180a400f6ab8

meanwhile i am listening to it on Spotify for, like, pennies per hour