Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) [Digipak] [Remastered] - Brian Eno

Certain streets have certain corners...

Advantages: Eno is ever creative
Disadvantages: but not as potent as usual.

Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is my last review of Eno?s 70s (near) Pop work, a form he would pretty much abandon after Before and After Science, in favour of more experimental work and explorations as pop-producer (Talking Heads, U2 etc.). His second solo album, Eno had the problematic necessity of somehow following up the brilliance of Here Come the Warm Jets, in a meaningful way. And did he do it. To be honest no, but then Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) isn?t quite the same sort of album. It has a little more continuity, being something of a collaboration with Roxy Music (the band Eno had recently left) guitarist Phil Manzanera and as I utter ad infinitum, Manzanera cannot reach the musical heights of a Fripp or a Fred Frith. But this is not to say that Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is in any way a bad album ...

No_name 08.08.2004 · Read full review
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Here Comes Brian Eno

Advantages: Eno's first musical high
Disadvantages: One bad track

with Robert Fripp) and his Discreet Music. Only Here Come the Warm Jets is something different. It is an unusual beginning in many ways when considered against some of her later works. Only his second solo album is comparable (Taking Tiger Mountain [By Strategy]) as they are both song based albums. Another Green World and Before and After Science may well have conventional songs (well, as conventional as Eno ever gets) but they also show his leaning towards pure ambient, though in Another Green World, his first excursion, tracks like Sombre Reptile preface his Ambient music and yet use a lot of conventional instruments. There is clear guitar and percussive sounds. His later work often uses ?found? sounds and those tapped simply from nature. HCTWJ though is the album Eno made after he split from Roxy Music after For Your Pleasure. Many ...

No_name 25.01.2004 · Read full review
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Thursday Afternoon - Brian Eno

Advantages: calming, gentle, ideal for chilling out
Disadvantages: none

One of the first albums to fully utilise the extended length of the cd, this 1985 offering from Brian Eno will delight fans of his ambient work and probably irritate those who find this side of Eno's work rather twee. 61 minutes in length this is one piece of gradually evolving music that occupies a space in the room, but doesn't dominate, drifting gently but insistently in the background. However, in keeping with most of Eno's ambient music, this not merely aural wallpaper and there is enough happening in the gently changing patterns of piano trills and synth custers to repay active listening too. I find it very beautiful, calming, relaxing and ideal for quiet reading or thinking. At times I've used Thursday Afternoon as music to fall asleep to. It 's a lovely album and can usually be found a fairly bargain prices. Well worth ...

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