Other Mixes By Leif Averageson
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"I Didn't Want Myself to be in the Center of the Music Anymore." -- Brian Eno
| Artist | Song | |
| Brian Eno | Brian Eno Speaks (Rare Ambient, 1996) / An Arc of Doves (Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror, 1980) | |
| Brian Eno / Robert Fripp | Wind on Water (Evening Star, 1975) | |
| Brian Eno | 1-2 (Bang on a Can, 1998) | |
| Brian Eno / Laraaji | Meditation 2 (Ambient 3: Day of Radiance, 2000) | |
| Brian Eno / Dieter Moebius / Hans-Joachim Roedelius | Old Land (After the Heat, 1978) | |
| Brian Eno | 1/2 (Ambient 1 - Music For Airports, 1978) | |
| Brian Eno | A Clearing (On Land, 1982) | |
| Brian Eno | Going Unconscious (Another Day on Earth, 2005) | |
| Brian Eno / Harold Budd | An Echo Of Night (The Pearl, 1984) | |
| Brian Eno | Cavallino (The Shutov Assembly, 1992) | |
| Brian Eno / Harold Budd | Wind in Lonely Fences (Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror, 1980) | |
| Brian Eno / Metropole Orchestra | Orch. I (Lanzarote) (The Shutov Assembly Live in Amsterdam, 2000) | |
| Brian Eno | Zawinul/Lava (Another Green World, 1975) | |
| Brian Eno / Cluster | One (Cluster & Eno, 1977) | |
| Brian Eno | Tal Coat (Ambient 4: On Land, 1982) | |
| Brian Eno | Deep Blue Day (Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks, 1983) | |
| Brian Eno / Peter Schwalm | More Dust (Drawn from Life, 2001) | |
| Brian Eno | Emphasizing Enharmonic Partial (Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now, 2002) | |
| Brian Eno | Condition 3 (Compact Forest Proposal, 2001) | |
| Brian Eno | Three Variations On The Canon In D Major: (iii) Brutal Ardour (Discreet Music, 1975) | |
| Brian Eno / Jon Hassell | Rising Thermal 14 Deg 16 Min N; 32 Deg 28 Min E (Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics, 1980) | |
| Brian Eno | Glitterbug 4 (Glitterbug, 1994) | |
| Brian Eno / Robert Fripp /Richard Bailey | Alloy Balcony & Jets Overhead (Headcandy, 1994) | |
| Brian Eno / David Byrne | Come With Us (My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, 1981) | |
| Brian Eno | Lavender Hill (Music for White Cube, 1997) | |
| Brian Eno / Peter Schwalm | Faraway Suns (Music for Onmyo-Ji, 2000) | |
| Brian Eno / Robert Fripp | Lyra (Equatorial Stars, 2005) | |
Comment:
Another single-artist mix, and my last for a while, I hope!This is one of those mixes I've fought making, as I've often thought Brian Eno's ambient work to be a bit like the Emperor in his birthday suit, saying, "Look at my glorious garments!" and the out-of-the-mouths-of-babes boy piping up, "But you've got nothing on!"
My views have changed a bit, and I've gone deep into investigating the man, his music ... and his, I believe now, groundbreaking genius. This is the product of months of collecting and weeding. It's still not quite done, and I wonder, considering the man's massive output, if it ever could be. I've gone a bit barmy at times with this one, and am now glad to be rid of it. : ) My wish down the road -- when I have time and a new-found desire -- is to break this 2.5-hour mix in two and blend it, as ambienticians are wont to do.
(The link to Eno 1 didn't seem to be working for folks, so I uploaded the Zip file again. Hopefully to better results.)
ENO 1
ENO 2
(To answer some of the comments below, my intention here was to just include Eno's ambient work, as that was the area I had my reservations about at the outset. To be honest, I've not given Eno's Roxy (or post-Roxy) Music, vocal-based stuff -- where he or others like Cale have taken the singing reigns -- much of a chance, as it's not really my aural cup of tea. I found the thinking behind Eno's comments on #1 -- which I played with by adding a sub-track to make it a bit more interesting -- to be quite in keeping with my own outlook on music. As such, it remains the only truly "vocal" track here.)
Feedback:
You're hard to keep up with these days! I like what I know here, which is only a very small part of this mix, so I'm looking forward to hearing the rest.
Sacrilege!! :D You missed the most important piece of work, sir!! The Windows log on tone!
I love Eno, really really. You've touched on a lot of his less well-known work which is great, and this seems to lean more into the ambient side of that domain. For me, Another Green World is his best work.
Looks great. Yes, a fair amount of ambient music (Eno's included) is rather undistinguishable. But like the poster below, I find Another Green World to be one of the most fantastic albums ever, and the instrumental pieces on it are every bit as fascinating as the vocal tracks. I also think Music For Films has some amazing moments, managing to be soothing background music that actually makes me perk up my ears and listen. Though my favorite Eno music is the whacked-out rock stuff from the first couple albums and the mellow vocal tracks from Before & After Science ("Spider & I" and "Julie With" -- most gorgeous songs ever? Perhaps, perhaps....), the genre you capture here is no less deserving.
Eno is great and your picks are well chosen (I mean, I think they're well chosen, because you've ventured off into some parts of Eno's work I've never listened to). I like the Eno's ambient work and his rock albums about equally, I guess, but On Land in particular I played over and over and over again. And while I love Another Green World, my favorite tracks are "Third Uncle" and "The True Wheel" from Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy). Not a criticism of your mix, though. You've put together a really interesting collection. I just thought I'd mention it since others seem to be weighing in on their Eno favorites.
Yes, Eno is quite the man. He can even yodel, as he demonstrated on "Seven Deadly Finns," one of his earlier recordings. Who would have thought.
I was turned on to Fripp and Eno when I was 15 and I've never really recovered. Really well thought out collection here.
this looks very good. i'm off to an Eno exhibition in a couple of weeks, this will make a good soundtrack to the day. (leif, you should really give 'before & after science' a spin)