Thanks for your very thoughtful reply, Steven. I too like Eno's lyrics very much, they're certainly a lot more interesting than many other lyricists. I always took his 'modest' dismissive attitude to his lyrics as a way of not wanting to be taken literally and therefore 'held to account'. He certainly manages to say a lot of complicated things with his words. Another Green World is one of my favourites of all his albums and the first one that he made in the studio without any pre-planning, to see what would happen. The whole of English Asteroid is very consistent in tone/mood: very relaxing in the Ambient sense. Interesting that you're using mixcloud in this way, I did wonder quite what it (EA) was 'for'. Looking forward to hearing the work you want to make.
Thanks for comments Phil. It may not be obvious but these WMA mixes are made as kind of 'mood boards' (terrible phrase but it's the best I can do right now!) for songs that I'm working on. This one is towards something that I plan to record in the spring and am currently writing and developing. It harks back to a super 8 film I made in the nineties, Microphone, for various references and resonances, as well as thematic reasons, and I used After the Rain on the soundtrack of that film, as well as some of my own material included in this mix (inc the 'outtake' you mention).
The inclusion of Eno/Fripp stuff is a way of trying out an idea, which is to say that the Evening Star/Another Green World, etc, records, occurred to me to have a kind of hermetic, interior quality, 'ambient', in the broader Eno-esque sense, as a way of conveying or evoking a mood or sensibility, a sort of temporal stasis, a vague drifting ennui, almost melancholic, detached, I think Barrett's Dominoes has something of this quality too.
[On a side note, it's always irritated me that Eno is so dismissive of his lyrics, as though they're little more than sound poetry with little semiotic atmospheric, or 'meaning' (see http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/lyrics.html), whereas I find them to be quite rich with atmospheric resonance, which is in their 'meaning', especially on AGW, so I find his attitude kind of baffling and disingenuous, as though to deny the possibility of 'reading'.]
These atmospherics are something I'm thinking will pervade the work I'm doing, not that it will necessarily sound particularly like these, at least I think not.
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Thanks for your very thoughtful reply, Steven.
I too like Eno's lyrics very much, they're certainly a lot more interesting than many other lyricists. I always took his 'modest' dismissive attitude to his lyrics as a way of not wanting to be taken literally and therefore 'held to account'. He certainly manages to say a lot of complicated things with his words. Another Green World is one of my favourites of all his albums and the first one that he made in the studio without any pre-planning, to see what would happen.
The whole of English Asteroid is very consistent in tone/mood: very relaxing in the Ambient sense. Interesting that you're using mixcloud in this way, I did wonder quite what it (EA) was 'for'.
Looking forward to hearing the work you want to make.
After The Rain was great too. Not heard it before. (c43mins)
Thanks for comments Phil. It may not be obvious but these WMA mixes are made as kind of 'mood boards' (terrible phrase but it's the best I can do right now!) for songs that I'm working on. This one is towards something that I plan to record in the spring and am currently writing and developing. It harks back to a super 8 film I made in the nineties, Microphone, for various references and resonances, as well as thematic reasons, and I used After the Rain on the soundtrack of that film, as well as some of my own material included in this mix (inc the 'outtake' you mention).
The inclusion of Eno/Fripp stuff is a way of trying out an idea, which is to say that the Evening Star/Another Green World, etc, records, occurred to me to have a kind of hermetic, interior quality, 'ambient', in the broader Eno-esque sense, as a way of conveying or evoking a mood or sensibility, a sort of temporal stasis, a vague drifting ennui, almost melancholic, detached, I think Barrett's Dominoes has something of this quality too.
[On a side note, it's always irritated me that Eno is so dismissive of his lyrics, as though they're little more than sound poetry with little semiotic atmospheric, or 'meaning' (see http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/lyrics.html), whereas I find them to be quite rich with atmospheric resonance, which is in their 'meaning', especially on AGW, so I find his attitude kind of baffling and disingenuous, as though to deny the possibility of 'reading'.]
These atmospherics are something I'm thinking will pervade the work I'm doing, not that it will necessarily sound particularly like these, at least I think not.
I like Microphone Outtake (c33mins), works very well in this mix.
Lovely to hear Evensong again. So simple yet so good.