Excellent 2 1/2 hour documentary on the highly creative Brian Eno.
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Excellent 2 1/2 hour documentary on the highly creative Brian Eno.
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no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
good to see the eno love. somany proggers are clueless about him.
I thought David Bowie was the man who fell to earth.
Saw it, dug it! AFAIK there is no connection between Eno and the Roeg film. I think they just thought it was a cool title for the doc since Eno is kind of an alien
A terrific documentary about the time when Eno mattered. I am sorry to say that he stopped breaking new ground (and, perhaps, began to believe a little too much in "the legend") a long time ago. But his '70s and early '80s was truly stunning, and this is one of the better documentaries I've seen. Certainly way better than Sensation, the just-released doc about The Who and making of Tommy. I was going to review it, but it would have been a waste of my time. All I can say is with Townshend way too self-indulgent and naval-gazing, and Daltry trying very hard to sound intelligent, it was more than boring, it was annoying. And while the "bonus" feature from Germany's Beat Club had some much better, much humbler footage with a younger Pete, all the live footage was lip-synched, so was of no use at all.
Sorry to digress, but Sensation reminded me how great the Eno doc was....
I also feel Eno's work is partly ignored by the progressive crowd
no idea why
One of the great ones
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
While there's an Eno thread going, what's the feeling on Music for Films 3 with Michael Brook, Harold Budd, Brian Eno, and Roger Eno?
Very little talk with Eno himself in the docu, according to reviews. Extensive interviews with the artists themselves are essential to me.
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Absolutely agreed about the timeframe, John - pretty much everything Eno was involved with up until 1983 was top notch. Then what happened? Well, you could say he started buying into his own legend a bit too much - or you could look at the timeline, & see the beginning of the decline as coinciding with his collaboration with a band (& a lead singer) who really do buy into their own perceptions that they are "legendary" - of course, correlation isn't *always* causation...
^The same thought had crossed my mind. That 'lead singer' certainly does play a part in my indifference to most of their work, but I find them musically quite limited as well. Of course he has worked with another 'big music', hollow stadium-rock band in recent years, who I rate even less. Unfortunate that Brian Eno may be better known for those associations now than his own work.
I don't know any of his stuff after 'Apollo', because of spotty reviews and spotty output over different labels. 'Another Green World' is one of the best albums of the period IMHO- full of strange but delightful pop tunes and tranquil instrumentals. I also played 'Music For Airports' a lot some years ago, when I first discovered it.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Actually, he could. He was very proud of the fact that he never used stick patches and from the early days when you had to program up through the 80s and early 90s era of digitally controlled analog and ROMplers he programmed his own patches.
Hey, I never said he programmed good sounds.
Speaking of Eno, heard 4th of July from U2's The Unforgettable Fire on Sirius XM's Deep Tracks today. Nice to hear it again.
Eno was involved with some of the soundtrack irrc, which evolved into the Bowie album Low. It was in that timeframe that Bowie, Eno, and I think Iggy Pop were collaborating with each other in the studios/albums.
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