...fucking hell, what have we been doing for half a century?
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Brian Eno's favorite records in a longish interview with William Doyle of the Quietus.
Well great, now I'm going down yet another Internet rabbit hole and likely to not get out for days. Thanks, Obama!
posted by Ber at 3:29 PM on April 13, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by Ber at 3:29 PM on April 13, 2016 [4 favorites]
This is excellent! I feel exactly the same way about gospel.
posted by OmieWise at 3:41 PM on April 13, 2016
posted by OmieWise at 3:41 PM on April 13, 2016
He has piles of things that amount to more than we have time for today, which unfortunately means that, although included for possible selection in this feature – and played for us to listen or sing along to – we don't get a chance to delve into Neu! 2 or CrazySexyCool by TLC.
WHAT? Interviewer, you have let me down. How could you deny us all Brian Eno's commentary on "Waterfalls"?
posted by thetortoise at 3:52 PM on April 13, 2016 [9 favorites]
WHAT? Interviewer, you have let me down. How could you deny us all Brian Eno's commentary on "Waterfalls"?
posted by thetortoise at 3:52 PM on April 13, 2016 [9 favorites]
Here come the warm jets.
posted by Artw at 3:58 PM on April 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Artw at 3:58 PM on April 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
Owen Pallet?! Now that was a surprise.
posted by hoodrich at 4:00 PM on April 13, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by hoodrich at 4:00 PM on April 13, 2016 [4 favorites]
How could you deny us all Brian Eno's commentary on "Waterfalls"?
it's got the same kind of stuttery groove that "in time" by sly does - people don't come up with that sort of thing very often
posted by pyramid termite at 4:24 PM on April 13, 2016 [3 favorites]
it's got the same kind of stuttery groove that "in time" by sly does - people don't come up with that sort of thing very often
posted by pyramid termite at 4:24 PM on April 13, 2016 [3 favorites]
Meh, no Oasis. His taste in music sucks.
posted by Chuffy at 4:34 PM on April 13, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Chuffy at 4:34 PM on April 13, 2016 [2 favorites]
Can someone hurry up and invent a perpetuity machine? We can afford to lose him too.
posted by memewit at 4:42 PM on April 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by memewit at 4:42 PM on April 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
Yay Joni. Boo that his text is mostly about engineering (though yay it does sound so good)
posted by wemayfreeze at 4:46 PM on April 13, 2016
posted by wemayfreeze at 4:46 PM on April 13, 2016
The highest tribute I can give to Eno is that I'm having great difficulty getting through this, because each page sends me down a youtube rabbit hole that I have trouble getting out of. I mean, I'm currently listening to Pavarotti sing Ave Maria, and that is most definitely not a selection from the article in question.
posted by the bricabrac man at 5:07 PM on April 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by the bricabrac man at 5:07 PM on April 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
LOOOOVED this ... thanks for posting. Over to Spotify to scour, although I should probably visit my local used vinyl store instead.
posted by Sheydem-tants at 5:27 PM on April 13, 2016
posted by Sheydem-tants at 5:27 PM on April 13, 2016
I'm loving Brian Eno more and more these days. His John Peel lecture was really great
posted by maggiemaggie at 5:51 PM on April 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by maggiemaggie at 5:51 PM on April 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
If you like reading about Eno's musical influences, I could highly recommend On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno by David Sheppard, it's quite funny. 3 things: 1) his getting that EMS Synthi really made his career take shape; 2) Fela Kuti's Afrodisiac was the inspiration for Remain in Light; 3) he likes to sing Motown & Gospel songs while making dinner for his friends; if there's a 4th thing, he really helped U2 get it together.
posted by ovvl at 6:08 PM on April 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by ovvl at 6:08 PM on April 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
This list has more overlap with my own favorites than any other magazine list I've ever read.
That said,
Joni Mitchell – Court And Spark
An almost perfect album. Apart from one mistake – there's a joke song on it.
Does he mean "Twisted"? Because that's such a great vocal performance. Or did he mean "Raised on Robbery"? That song always felt like a bit of a throwaway.
posted by Daily Alice at 6:11 PM on April 13, 2016
That said,
Joni Mitchell – Court And Spark
An almost perfect album. Apart from one mistake – there's a joke song on it.
Does he mean "Twisted"? Because that's such a great vocal performance. Or did he mean "Raised on Robbery"? That song always felt like a bit of a throwaway.
posted by Daily Alice at 6:11 PM on April 13, 2016
Throwaway?! You are dead to me.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:50 PM on April 13, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:50 PM on April 13, 2016 [3 favorites]
Court And Spark is an interesting choice because some critics believe it marks the end of Mitchell's vibrant melodies; instruments provide the richness that her voice alone used to carry. I love it, myself.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:53 PM on April 13, 2016
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:53 PM on April 13, 2016
I dunno ... I think Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira and Blue are all stronger than Court and Spark.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:58 PM on April 13, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:58 PM on April 13, 2016 [6 favorites]
Eno is one of the great quotesmiths - if you ever see a copy of his out of print '96 diary for sale, 'year with swollen appendices' snatch that motherfucker up like you wanna eat it.
The first thing that happens when you're listening to that is that the repetitive element of it gradually makes you start to lose focus of the pieces that keep repeating. You start hearing the little differences. It's a little bit like the way a frog's eye works. It doesn't scan like ours do, it stays fixed on a scene and very quickly the rods and cones get saturated with everything that doesn't move. So as soon as something does move, like a fly, that's the only thing that the frog sees.
My other favourite quote of his is 'cultures have values the same way telephones have conversations'.
posted by Sebmojo at 7:03 PM on April 13, 2016 [6 favorites]
The first thing that happens when you're listening to that is that the repetitive element of it gradually makes you start to lose focus of the pieces that keep repeating. You start hearing the little differences. It's a little bit like the way a frog's eye works. It doesn't scan like ours do, it stays fixed on a scene and very quickly the rods and cones get saturated with everything that doesn't move. So as soon as something does move, like a fly, that's the only thing that the frog sees.
My other favourite quote of his is 'cultures have values the same way telephones have conversations'.
posted by Sebmojo at 7:03 PM on April 13, 2016 [6 favorites]
I dunno ... I think Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira and Blue are all stronger than Court and Spark.
Blessedly, this really isn't a ranking of 'best' albums. On the MBV selection he claims to have never gotten past the first song on the record. I much prefer this sort of thing where artists talk or write haphazardly about things they found particularly interesting, or which touched them in some special way at a particular time in their development.
posted by otio at 7:21 PM on April 13, 2016 [3 favorites]
Blessedly, this really isn't a ranking of 'best' albums. On the MBV selection he claims to have never gotten past the first song on the record. I much prefer this sort of thing where artists talk or write haphazardly about things they found particularly interesting, or which touched them in some special way at a particular time in their development.
posted by otio at 7:21 PM on April 13, 2016 [3 favorites]
Throwaway?! You are dead to me.
You're mean when you're loaded.
posted by Daily Alice at 7:32 PM on April 13, 2016 [4 favorites]
You're mean when you're loaded.
posted by Daily Alice at 7:32 PM on April 13, 2016 [4 favorites]
Or did he mean "Raised on Robbery"? That song always felt like a bit of a throwaway.
not if you're Canadian
posted by philip-random at 9:03 PM on April 13, 2016
not if you're Canadian
posted by philip-random at 9:03 PM on April 13, 2016
It's the little details he throws in which make this:
"When I first met Talking Heads, the first meeting I ever had with them, they had been playing in London and they came over to my flat to talk about me working on their next album. So I said, "This is the future of music", and I played them Afrodisiac, and to their credit they were incredibly impressed by it. If you listen to the third album we did together (Remain In Light) it's so influenced by that. It's sort of shameful in a way."
Amazing!!
posted by marienbad at 9:07 PM on April 13, 2016 [3 favorites]
"When I first met Talking Heads, the first meeting I ever had with them, they had been playing in London and they came over to my flat to talk about me working on their next album. So I said, "This is the future of music", and I played them Afrodisiac, and to their credit they were incredibly impressed by it. If you listen to the third album we did together (Remain In Light) it's so influenced by that. It's sort of shameful in a way."
Amazing!!
posted by marienbad at 9:07 PM on April 13, 2016 [3 favorites]
Does he mean "Twisted"?
Yeah, he means Twisted. I think the original was widely considered a novelty song, but Joni's cover is pretty great. I dunno. I think it stands up today.
Owen Pallett was definitely a suprise, but tbh, Me'Shell NdegéOcello was a bigger one. (The biggest non-surprise has to be Steve Reich. Or VU.)
Great, great interview. Thanks!
posted by mrgrimm at 9:37 PM on April 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
Yeah, he means Twisted. I think the original was widely considered a novelty song, but Joni's cover is pretty great. I dunno. I think it stands up today.
Owen Pallett was definitely a suprise, but tbh, Me'Shell NdegéOcello was a bigger one. (The biggest non-surprise has to be Steve Reich. Or VU.)
Great, great interview. Thanks!
posted by mrgrimm at 9:37 PM on April 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
The deluxe version of "Remain in Light" features a track called "Fela's Riff" - makes sense now. (Insert some joke here about "Stop Making Sense".)
Thanks, thatwhichfalls!
posted by fingers_of_fire at 9:49 PM on April 13, 2016
Thanks, thatwhichfalls!
posted by fingers_of_fire at 9:49 PM on April 13, 2016
Raised on Robbery is so good. When you want Joni AND to rock.
posted by wemayfreeze at 11:15 PM on April 13, 2016
posted by wemayfreeze at 11:15 PM on April 13, 2016
Raised on Robbery is so good. When you want Joni AND to rock.
The best salacious lyric ever sung by a woman in pop:
"I'm a pretty good cook
I'm sitting on my groceries"
(Take THAT, lemon squeezer!)
posted by Chitownfats at 12:10 AM on April 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
The best salacious lyric ever sung by a woman in pop:
"I'm a pretty good cook
I'm sitting on my groceries"
(Take THAT, lemon squeezer!)
posted by Chitownfats at 12:10 AM on April 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
On the MBV selection he claims to have never gotten past the first song on the record.
Shame, though. For my money, 'Off Your Face' is MBV's best song.
posted by Panthalassa at 2:02 AM on April 14, 2016
Shame, though. For my money, 'Off Your Face' is MBV's best song.
posted by Panthalassa at 2:02 AM on April 14, 2016
I didn't leave that "Eno Is God" graffiti around London in the 70s purely because I wasn't in London, was still a young schoolkid and had never heard of him. I realise these are poor reasons and no excuse really.
I was only barely aware of him by the time I was in London in the mid-80s, because his name cropped up in conjunction with Talking Heads and I loved My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (I can even remember the headline in Smash Hits on the article that announced the project, "Byrne In Bush" - god, I loved the writing in Smash Hits). I mentioned my admiration of MLITBOG in an online forum, and someone said "Oh, send me your postal address, there's something you should hear".
A week later, a TDK C90 popped through the letterbox (home taping is killing music - and it's illegal! Don't do it, kids!) with Warm Jets on one side and Tiger Mountain on the other.
That one act changed my life. I. Had. No. Idea. It was so alien and so human, and so full of things from a parallel history of music that I'd just not been exposed to. It was subersive, it was intelligent, it was gleeful, it was beautiful. From that tape, I found out about Krautrock, Canterbury, King Crimson, early Roxy... and that was just for starters. My goodness, I thought as I emerged from yet another slippery congress with a Fripp solo, this stuff is so old! What's this Eno chap been doing since besides that stuff with Byrne and co?
And of that, there has been no end. Not everything he touches turns to gold (although some of the dross turns to platinum, which I suppose is a good thing because it means he lives a life unconstrained by want and if anyone should be bestowed that princedom by the world, it is Eno, and it keeps him out there ready to be discovered by others) but I have never, never regretted paying attention. I have been to his talks, I have watched his documentaries, I have even met the man... and I still absolutely wig out to Baby's On Fire.
I knew something of his influences, as he's talked about them often, but the Quietus interview has still given me an entire new project.
These days, nobody gets that C90 through the post, and I thoroughly enjoyed the years of discovery that followed which lose something in being achievable in a couple of weekends sitting at home with a browser (File sharing is killing music - and it's illegal! Don't do it, kids!). The man's entire discography is out there as a single curated archive; you don't even have to dig out the seriously obscure (or Obscure) stuff from dingy backwaters. My equivalent of sending the tape is to utter the single word 'Breno'. But Eno is fractal; you can take so much of what he does, dig down into his collaborators and references of one piece, and embark on a new voyage any time you like.
Really, what more can a chap ask for? Well, a new album with soundscapes and singing and new mysteries and new pleasures, please... oh, here it is.
Now, where's that spraycan...
posted by Devonian at 2:59 AM on April 14, 2016 [18 favorites]
I was only barely aware of him by the time I was in London in the mid-80s, because his name cropped up in conjunction with Talking Heads and I loved My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (I can even remember the headline in Smash Hits on the article that announced the project, "Byrne In Bush" - god, I loved the writing in Smash Hits). I mentioned my admiration of MLITBOG in an online forum, and someone said "Oh, send me your postal address, there's something you should hear".
A week later, a TDK C90 popped through the letterbox (home taping is killing music - and it's illegal! Don't do it, kids!) with Warm Jets on one side and Tiger Mountain on the other.
That one act changed my life. I. Had. No. Idea. It was so alien and so human, and so full of things from a parallel history of music that I'd just not been exposed to. It was subersive, it was intelligent, it was gleeful, it was beautiful. From that tape, I found out about Krautrock, Canterbury, King Crimson, early Roxy... and that was just for starters. My goodness, I thought as I emerged from yet another slippery congress with a Fripp solo, this stuff is so old! What's this Eno chap been doing since besides that stuff with Byrne and co?
And of that, there has been no end. Not everything he touches turns to gold (although some of the dross turns to platinum, which I suppose is a good thing because it means he lives a life unconstrained by want and if anyone should be bestowed that princedom by the world, it is Eno, and it keeps him out there ready to be discovered by others) but I have never, never regretted paying attention. I have been to his talks, I have watched his documentaries, I have even met the man... and I still absolutely wig out to Baby's On Fire.
I knew something of his influences, as he's talked about them often, but the Quietus interview has still given me an entire new project.
These days, nobody gets that C90 through the post, and I thoroughly enjoyed the years of discovery that followed which lose something in being achievable in a couple of weekends sitting at home with a browser (File sharing is killing music - and it's illegal! Don't do it, kids!). The man's entire discography is out there as a single curated archive; you don't even have to dig out the seriously obscure (or Obscure) stuff from dingy backwaters. My equivalent of sending the tape is to utter the single word 'Breno'. But Eno is fractal; you can take so much of what he does, dig down into his collaborators and references of one piece, and embark on a new voyage any time you like.
Really, what more can a chap ask for? Well, a new album with soundscapes and singing and new mysteries and new pleasures, please... oh, here it is.
Now, where's that spraycan...
posted by Devonian at 2:59 AM on April 14, 2016 [18 favorites]
Something else you may not know about Eno:
BECAUSE SHORT, VOWEL-HEAVY NOUNS are in finite supply, the makers of crossword puzzles resort to familiar tricks: Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife (OONA), Jacob's hirsute brother (ESAU), Kwik-E-Mart's manager (APU). Most of these people are known for exactly one thing, so the clues tend to be repetitive. ENO—that is, the 64-year-old British polymath Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno—is an exception to the rule. All of the following crossword clues have been used to describe him: "Roxy Music co-founder"; "Ambient music pioneer"; "David Byrne collaborator"; "Grammy-winning Brian"; "Producer of Paul Simon's newest album"; "Composer of The Lovely Bones' music"; "Creator of the 'Microsoft sound' played when Windows 95 starts"; "Brian who produced several U2 albums"; "Generative music pioneer."
From Mother Jones, Finding Eno
posted by chavenet at 4:11 AM on April 14, 2016 [5 favorites]
BECAUSE SHORT, VOWEL-HEAVY NOUNS are in finite supply, the makers of crossword puzzles resort to familiar tricks: Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife (OONA), Jacob's hirsute brother (ESAU), Kwik-E-Mart's manager (APU). Most of these people are known for exactly one thing, so the clues tend to be repetitive. ENO—that is, the 64-year-old British polymath Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno—is an exception to the rule. All of the following crossword clues have been used to describe him: "Roxy Music co-founder"; "Ambient music pioneer"; "David Byrne collaborator"; "Grammy-winning Brian"; "Producer of Paul Simon's newest album"; "Composer of The Lovely Bones' music"; "Creator of the 'Microsoft sound' played when Windows 95 starts"; "Brian who produced several U2 albums"; "Generative music pioneer."
From Mother Jones, Finding Eno
posted by chavenet at 4:11 AM on April 14, 2016 [5 favorites]
This is great. I am obsessed with his brain. Brian Eno is also far too sexually attractive for his own good. I refer to him as my 'night husband'.
posted by ihaveyourfoot at 4:22 AM on April 14, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by ihaveyourfoot at 4:22 AM on April 14, 2016 [3 favorites]
I still absolutely wig out to Baby's On Fire.
Fantastic comment, Devonian. The True Wheel does it for me.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 5:49 AM on April 14, 2016
Fantastic comment, Devonian. The True Wheel does it for me.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 5:49 AM on April 14, 2016
I love reading and hearing well-spoken people discussing the art that's important to them. Both when they're pointing out aspects I hadn't noticed in stuff I'm familiar with, and when they're leading me into work i'd never experienced before.
And he's totally right about My Bloody Valentine's "Glider" -- the two EPs preceding "Loveless" are exciting for being able to watch MBV find their voice and for, in a way, distilling to an essence everything that "Loveless" was. (And if I don't listen to "Loveless" much any more it's only because I really overplayed it until it made its own grooves in my brain, back in the day, and it takes longer between listens now for the album to amaze me like it once did. Eno touches on that too when discussing the Velvet Underground and the necessity of not listening to something as often as you'd like, to keep it fresh.)
posted by ardgedee at 5:51 AM on April 14, 2016
And he's totally right about My Bloody Valentine's "Glider" -- the two EPs preceding "Loveless" are exciting for being able to watch MBV find their voice and for, in a way, distilling to an essence everything that "Loveless" was. (And if I don't listen to "Loveless" much any more it's only because I really overplayed it until it made its own grooves in my brain, back in the day, and it takes longer between listens now for the album to amaze me like it once did. Eno touches on that too when discussing the Velvet Underground and the necessity of not listening to something as often as you'd like, to keep it fresh.)
posted by ardgedee at 5:51 AM on April 14, 2016
"I'm a pretty good cook
I'm sitting on my groceries"
Also my fave lines:
"...he bought a '57 Biscayne
He put it in the ditch
He drunk up all the rest
That son of a bitch"
Genius lyrics. Among the best Joni or anyone has done.
(Of course, Eno himself scored quite nicely with some non-literal but very effective lyrics back in his day.)
posted by ovvl at 6:10 AM on April 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
I'm sitting on my groceries"
Also my fave lines:
"...he bought a '57 Biscayne
He put it in the ditch
He drunk up all the rest
That son of a bitch"
Genius lyrics. Among the best Joni or anyone has done.
(Of course, Eno himself scored quite nicely with some non-literal but very effective lyrics back in his day.)
posted by ovvl at 6:10 AM on April 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
Okay, strange synchronicity time. I used to have Another Green World on tape, and one night me and someone who was a mate at the time took acid, and listened to it. Honestly, it was perfect, I swear I had like 8 orgasms listening to it. At the end, we were both blown away. So I lost touch with the guy, and hadn't seen him for ten years, and yesterday I found out he had died, and then I came home from work and read this post about Brian Eno, and I was still thinking of my old friend, and it sometimes it seems like a strange world.
Thanks for all the great music, Brian Eno. RIP my old friend.
posted by marienbad at 7:23 AM on April 14, 2016 [6 favorites]
Thanks for all the great music, Brian Eno. RIP my old friend.
posted by marienbad at 7:23 AM on April 14, 2016 [6 favorites]
Haven't seen this mentioned on the blue, so here's a conversation between Eno and Varoufakis from last November. Long but well worth reading - they're obviously good friends and think along the same lines. The conversation takes delightfully baroque vectors: good stuff.
posted by Devonian at 7:37 AM on April 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Devonian at 7:37 AM on April 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
Here's that Hebeena Hebeena song he mentions in the bit about Farid Al-Atrache.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 9:03 AM on April 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Potomac Avenue at 9:03 AM on April 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
Thanks for all the great music, Brian Eno. RIP my old friend.
I read this before I read the rest of your comment and did a panic-search on Google because I thought Eno was dead. Sorry to hear about your friend. Sharing music is a real gift between people.
posted by ihaveyourfoot at 9:05 AM on April 14, 2016
I read this before I read the rest of your comment and did a panic-search on Google because I thought Eno was dead. Sorry to hear about your friend. Sharing music is a real gift between people.
posted by ihaveyourfoot at 9:05 AM on April 14, 2016
Brian Eno, what a name for an egghead genius producer. Exhibit A in the case for nominative determinism.
(I looked it up a while ago and it's a) his real name, and b) fairly common in Suffolk or somewhere, deriving from a Huguenot surname along the lines of Henault.)
posted by Mocata at 9:25 AM on April 14, 2016
(I looked it up a while ago and it's a) his real name, and b) fairly common in Suffolk or somewhere, deriving from a Huguenot surname along the lines of Henault.)
posted by Mocata at 9:25 AM on April 14, 2016
it just occurred to me. Where's the Can on that list?
posted by philip-random at 9:36 AM on April 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by philip-random at 9:36 AM on April 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
As usual, Eno's opinions on music made by black people are (to put it in the mildest way) embarrassing, much more informed by racial troping than by serious consideration. Does he really not know that most musicians in every genre have day jobs and other things that they could be doing with their time? Like other musicians, many black gospel musicians had professional aspirations, and like other musicians, many didn't. There was and is a huge industry with hundreds of professional groups. The Maceo Woods album he's discussing was recorded for a Stax subsidiary. Woods was absolutely a professional. To frame it as this exceptionally authentic labor of love is to totally ignore the real material conditions of gospel music in favor of what looks suspiciously like a stereotype about black authenticity.
posted by vathek at 9:36 AM on April 14, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by vathek at 9:36 AM on April 14, 2016 [3 favorites]
Where's the Can on that list?
Sounds like he preferred NEU! (or actually, NEU! 2).
I like to classify all people into 3 types of fans: Kraftwerk, Can, or NEU! (I"m a NEU! man myself, though Can is pretty great.)
posted by mrgrimm at 10:19 AM on April 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
Sounds like he preferred NEU! (or actually, NEU! 2).
I like to classify all people into 3 types of fans: Kraftwerk, Can, or NEU! (I"m a NEU! man myself, though Can is pretty great.)
posted by mrgrimm at 10:19 AM on April 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
nobody gets that C90 through the post,
I still send CD mixes. If you use a standard 320 MP3 format, you can get 100-150 songs on a disc. That's a HEAVY mix!
posted by mrgrimm at 10:21 AM on April 14, 2016
I still send CD mixes. If you use a standard 320 MP3 format, you can get 100-150 songs on a disc. That's a HEAVY mix!
posted by mrgrimm at 10:21 AM on April 14, 2016
You can hear Holger Czukay's influence on My Life... but I think Eno only worked substantially with Michael Rother of Neu!, when he was in Harmonia.
Me, I like just about everything kosmische, but for different reasons and in different moods. Something for every day of the week.
posted by Devonian at 11:00 AM on April 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
Me, I like just about everything kosmische, but for different reasons and in different moods. Something for every day of the week.
posted by Devonian at 11:00 AM on April 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
Eno touches on that too when discussing the Velvet Underground and the necessity of not listening to something as often as you'd like, to keep it fresh
I really liked that he chose the third album. I feel similarly about it. It feels even now so fragile and simultaneously fraught with the potential for danger. A beautiful album.
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:15 PM on April 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
I really liked that he chose the third album. I feel similarly about it. It feels even now so fragile and simultaneously fraught with the potential for danger. A beautiful album.
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:15 PM on April 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
Listening to the Arif Sag, I came across this gem on the same page, I would classify this as a Sufi Johnny Cash, in tone. This individual has some magic. A whole different genre for me, I think I will lose my self in here for a long while.
posted by Oyéah at 8:38 PM on April 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Oyéah at 8:38 PM on April 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
Ahmet Kaya amazing singer with an amazing story, wonderful music. Buried in Paris. No Kurdish songs in Turkey.
posted by Oyéah at 9:08 PM on April 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Oyéah at 9:08 PM on April 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
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Farid El Atrache – Farid El Atrache
Arif Sag – Umut
The Golden Gate Quartet – 'Go Where I Send Thee'
Sly And The Family Stone – Fresh
Me'Shell NdegéOcello – Plantation Lullabies
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
Steve Reich – Early Works
Fela Ransome-Kuti & The Africa '70 – Afrodisiac
My Bloody Valentine – Glider
Owen Pallett – Heartland
Chœur Bulgare Svetoslav Obretenov – Grande Liturgie Orthodoxe Slave
Joni Mitchell – Court And Spark
Thank you, thatwhichfalls! This looks great!!
posted by yaymukund at 3:27 PM on April 13, 2016 [15 favorites]