elf@utcsrgv.UUCP (Eugene Fiume) (11/27/84)
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Has anyone heard the recently released Budd/Eno album?
I can't remember the name of it.
BTW, for you Eno fans in Toronto and perhaps elsewhere, it looks like
many EG records have been deleted. You can pick up several great albums
like the Hassell/Eno "Possible Musics", the Fripp/Eno collaborations,
the Budd/Eno "Plateaux of Mirrors", and several solo Eno's real cheap.
Eugene Fiume
U of Toronto
{decvax|allegra}!utcsrgv!elfgtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) (11/29/84)
>Has anyone heard the recently released Budd/Eno album? >I can't remember the name of it. > >BTW, for you Eno fans in Toronto and perhaps elsewhere, it looks like >many EG records have been deleted. You can pick up several great albums >like the Hassell/Eno "Possible Musics", the Fripp/Eno collaborations, >the Budd/Eno "Plateaux of Mirrors", and several solo Eno's real cheap. The records in question are overpresses, and are also available in the Ewe-Essay on the cheap. THey're a good buy, but I've had the occasional problem with the quality of the pressing. The Pearl (the last B/E) contains no surprises, but sounds to my ears like a marriage of the "On Land" and "Apollo" textured stuff with a bit less obvious tomfoolery with the actual piano. As such, it sounded on first listen as being a bit less flashy in terms of treatment. On repeated listens, there is a greater sense of subtlety here, and (opine only) more of an insistence on Budd's part that the actual pieces be seen as compositions rather than a sort of synergistic relationship between a treatment scheme and a piece as raw material. Gregory Taylor
strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) (11/30/84)
>Has anyone heard the recently released Budd/Eno album? >I can't remember the name of it. > >BTW, for you Eno fans in Toronto and perhaps elsewhere, it looks like >many EG records have been deleted. You can pick up several great albums >like the Hassell/Eno "Possible Musics", the Fripp/Eno collaborations, >the Budd/Eno "Plateaux of Mirrors", and several solo Eno's real cheap. Is Eno still doing that ambient music stuff? He lost me after "Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy" and a few songs on "Before and After Science". His ambient video display was here in Berkeley a while ago complete with sofas. So here were all these people very quietly and intently watching a barely, if at all, changing video monitor and listening to ambient music. I thought the whole point of this ambient stuff was that you were supposed to go about doing whatever you had to do and then only occasionally glance at his video or tune into his music. Otherwise its too boring. By the way the tv monitors were turned on their side, oh how clever!
mike@smu.UUCP (12/01/84)
It's called "The Pearl" and it's pretty good. It's kind of difficult to compare these "Ambient" kind of albums - the music is entirely mellow and yet interesting, in line with Eno's stated goals from "Ambient 1". I recommend it to those who enjoy the Eno/Hassell/Budd/et al stuff. It may even be a little more accessible than the more obscure stuff from the Possible Musics albums and the Southeast Asian influenced albums.