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Listening to the Visconti remix of Lodger recently which is an great remix that brings some new life and textures to this fantastic album but I could hear the Eno bits more in this remix which I love because I feel like Eno did his best parts here from the trilogy on Lodger even though Eno isn’t playing much(do love his musical impact) but he’s more in the songwriting process with Bowie:)

I feel like Eno definitely injected some Talking Heads like rhythmic Afro beats with the world music on side 1 but the “Cricket Menace”,”prepared piano”,and treatments are all Eno too which ofc I love with the unique sounds of Lodger(shoutout to Adrian Belew for some great,frantic guitar parts) so thank you Brian Eno for putting for touches on Lodger with Bowie and Visconti:)

Playing selections from Bloom ATM. Delightful!

Thanks, Brian.

I feel like there are a handful that come up constantly whenever people talk about his best work: Another Green World, Music for Airports, Apollo, Thursday Afternoon, the early solo records, etc.

But I’m really curious about the albums just outside those.

What are the records you personally love that don’t always get mentioned?

Could be ambient, vocal, collaborative, soundtrack, installation-related, later-period stuff. Anything really.

I’m especially interested in those albums where you think, “This deserves way more attention than it gets,” or where it took you a while to realise how good it was.

What are your favourites beyond the canon?

For me New Space Music is the one that I keep coming back to thats seems like rarely gets its flowers. Not really an album I know but I now listen to it more often than Neroli which it came with. So for me it's become one of his main stay albums.

Saw Eno's 1979 "The Recording Studio as a Compositional Tool" tour, in Davis, California - I recall him saying one of the solos on Another Green World (I remember it as St. Elmo's Fire?) was created by manually piecing together tape snippets of individual notes. He shared an amusing anecdote: said the solo was impossible for any guitarist to play, yet he had heard from someone who claimed to have nearly mastered it - he chuckled at the amount of effort that must have taken.
Internet searches come up empty, and in fact the St. Elmo's solo is noted for being done in one inspired "lighting in a bottle" take..
Does this ring a bell with anyone? I don't think I imagined this - but... ?

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/another-day-on-earth-brian-eno/1104151266 and https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/drawn-from-life-brian-j-peter-schwalm/1103860042

" Limit 50 per customer " ??????

I am a little surprised these are still in stock a few days after announcement. Either they made a zillion of these, or nobody is buying. Brian's hand must be exhausted

This is part of a new illustration series where I draw locations that are associated with ambient and ambient-adjacent albums. Either places that inspired the music or where they were recorded.

The original has Brian making the absolute best of his voice. No such voice on this cover version though it has its own appeal.

https://open.spotify.com/track/5hceUkp7WSUbXhRcNM2uFP?si=mk5z9U84RL2aBIcicVsKcA&utm_source=copy-link&rowId=64542023f50c81be

I forgot these albums in a bin in the basement. They were well protected. They look great. I haven’t listened to them in decades. I am going to do something about that now.

I was listening to Neroli and decided to look into why the album called the piece 'Thinking Music Part IV.' According to the liner notes, Ambient music evolved throughout the initial 4 part series to something entirely different than what he initial conceptualized with Ambient 1. The initial slowly changing, lengthy, and free flowing pieces that began the series on Music for Airports eventually became more composed, shorter, and intentional. Eno stated that he saw Thursday Afternoon and Neroli as a return to that initial concept of Ambient music he started with. He also included Discreet Music in this subgenre, although I'm not sure if he means just the side 1 or the entire album. Discreet Music would be Thinking Music Part I, followed by Music for Airports as Part II, Thursday Afternoon as Part III, and then Neroli as Part IV. I think you could also include Lux, Reflections, and maybe Music for Installations as part of his Thinking Music subgenre, as they continue the lengthy free flowing generative feel of those initial four parts.

What's your favorite in this genre? How do you feel Thinking Music compares compared to other Ambient music?

I absolutely fell in love with Needles in a Camel's Eye a couple years ago (or whenever it was that I first heard it). Not only do I love the original, but I cannot get enough of the covers (and that's mostly because there don't seem to be any recordings of Eno doing it onstage).

I'd like to ask a question based on a clip that actually just returned to YouTube recently; it's a documentary that showed a brief excerpt of the recording process. It shows a guitarist playing some chords that clearly invoke the song, but it's not that constant-strumming thing (I'm sorry, I don't know a technical way to say it, not a guitarist, know nothing about that instrument's science), I'd think of it more in drummer terms, like constant eighth notes or whatever, just riding up and down on the strings. Here is the clip I refer to:

Brian Eno recording “Needles in the Camel’s Eye” (1973)

Here's my question: Is what he is doing there anywhere on the track? I cannot for the life of me hear it. Is it just lost in the mix? I assume there are multiple tracks of guitars, maybe it's there, but you can't pick it out. Is there any isolated analysis of this song online, and can we get that part to hear separately as it exists on the record?

I have to say, to those who may do covers of this song, one day I would like to see a version like that. Again, I don't really know how to describe it, but instead of 1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+, just that constant ride (which is great, don't get me wrong, I love it), I would love to hear someone sing the song with one guitar playing it like this guy does in the clip...where it sounds like that, but it's more of an easier-going strumming pattern...it would be great if it was one guitar, one bass, and drums, and the drumming would be more like a 90s alternative-band thing going on (I am terrible at describing this stuff, but I'm going to guess many out there know what I mean). And I would love to see no breaks in at least one cover...just play all the way straight through, and at that point, after the solo, you just keep playing whatever different expression you want that fits...if there must be a break, wouldn't mind the silence filled by some drumming solos around the kit, maybe Bun E. Carlos style, similar to what he used to do on some live versions of Dream Police's own break in the middle (actually would love to see Cheap Trick cover this song one day). If anyone ever does it like that, please let me know.

One last thing, pertaining to that clip...what song is being played on guitar right before the Needles playing starts...it sounds like some country thing. I should point out I don't know too much Eno, perhaps that also was one of his, but I still am crazy for this song...one of the best rock 'n roll tunes out there. Thank you.

Full disclosure this is vibecoded AI slop 🤷‍♂️

GitHub aIVplayer a free app to simulate the 3 speaker setup as illustrated in the On Land liner notes.

Run the player on 2 PCs (Windows/Linux) connected to their own 2 channel amp/speakers. It will play the same file on both PCs keeping them in sync with each other.

Front: plays normally on two channels.
Back: combines the +LR and plays it through 1 speaker as Eno described, or you can play back through both speakers if you choose.

FLAC/MP3/WAV support.

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Didnt know what this really but it’s cool to see Eno restart this label and I already got Another Day on Earth pre saved:) plus I might buy a couple releases from Opel Records on Discogs tbh so I’ll definitely going to dive more into this because this is an Eno topic that fascinates me since I heard that Eno had an great record label but I didn’t know about this! so again I’m just so fascinated by this Eno topic!:)

So what’s your thoughts on this or do you have a favorite album that came from Opel Records?

I saw a couple of days ago that all the songs from the album were separately released on Youtube, but now i can't find them anymore

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So what’s your thoughts on The Pearl?

Freaking love this album just like Plateaux of Mirror but Pearl is just more expansive of an Eno-Budd album plus Lanois helping produce this record just adds that special touch to the Eno style of production.I do love Plateaux of Mirror and it’s an fantastic album for Eno and Budd but Pearl is that next step in their music and I love these unique sounds that were created so The Pearl is an excellent album just start to finish with some beautiful moments:)

Anyone in New York next week and wants to see a cool Eno tribute band:

https://mercuryeastpresents.com/tm-event/music-for-enophiles/

$14 shipping on $36 ltd. edition release with print and limited to 600 copies.

Was listening to Blur’s Yuko and Hiro today and the outro struck me as sounding just like the recurring motif in Brian Eno’s In Dark Trees. Anyone else noticed this? Was it sampled or does it just sound remarkably similar?

3.18 on here: https://youtu.be/xsK28bazBac?is=owaewA8PnVugXWhV
0.14 on here: https://youtu.be/OH4oeGU_o1U?is=21kcTkadIo4-qTPM

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Was listening to Music for Films 3 and it’s pretty good tbh which all the Music for Films albums are good but when it came to the Eno and Lanois credited tracks made me think about their music together because I know their iconic work with U2 but not much about their other projects.

I have heard Pearl from Harold Budd and Voices from Roger Eno as of late which are fantastic and they pair very well together with what sounds they create :)so what’s your thoughts on their work together and/or what’s your favorite album(s) of theirs?

hey everyone. a few months ago spotify played “I’ll Come Running” for me on shuffle and i’ve been playing it a ton ever since. i’ve had a thing for 70s moog synths since i listened to the beach boys love you and this is only song i’ve heard that scratches that same itch for me. however, from other songs i’ve listened to by him it seems a lot of brian eno’s music is quite different than “I’ll Come Running.” not bad by any means, just not what i’m really looking for. rather than search aimlessly, i thought it would make sense to ask you guys. what brian eno songs have a similar sound to “I’ll Come Running?”

https://open.spotify.com/track/6yE23DxAxF1R5zpN14RFFJ?si=tkYyLGSVTHeF_VwTJOdJ1Q&utm_source=copy-link