Brian Eno 'Neroli' (1993)
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Five or so (synthesized) marimba notes wander around a massive reverb field lost, bumping into each other...for an hour.
that would be the casual onlookers take on this one song album.
...this is my first take also, as I have only listened to the entire album once as of writing. half asleep as it were, it gave me an uncharacteristically (for an [b]Eno[/b] song) bad feeling. Drifting in and out of my nap, I was horrified by the length of this monster as the notes really hug a down sounding minor scale, and it was obvious there would be no additional instruments added, and the general arrangement would never change throughout the excursion.
[b]Eno[/b]'s [b]'No Exit'[/b].
I think I was hoping for another [b]"Thursday Afternoon"[/b] ([b]Eno[/b]'s 1985 epic -Which to this day is still probably one of my favorite [b]Eno[/b] tracks, this too clocking in at about one hour in length). "[b]Thursday Afternoon[/b]" although exactly similar to '[b]Neroli[/b]'s theory (notes meandering around without a tonne of construction - [b]Eno[/b]'s fractal three dimensional system, whereby the listener can listen to any part of a song and it would appear to be the same as any other part.) '[b]Thursday Afternoon[/b]' has the prerequisite [b]Harold Budd[/b] style plinky piano (reverb/echo ad nauseam), but also had that glorious angelic synth babble lightly feathering the background) The result of this, is in a word 'heavenly'.
...and although I understand (and love) the nature of minimal -ahem-'pop music' (as I am also aware there are artists that record the blinking of their eyes for four hours), I suppose I wish '[b]Neroli[/b]' had that one extra 'thing' in it.
All this being said, this is a pretty big slab of near silence to digest. Let me have another go.
(By the way. If you would like to purchase this (the whole 57 minutes), it is a pithy .99c on Amazon.com, whereas it is $9.99 on iTunes)
•••3 stars out of 5
Five or so (synthesized) marimba notes wander around a massive reverb field lost, bumping into each other...for an hour.
that would be the casual onlookers take on this one song album.
...this is my first take also, as I have only listened to the entire album once as of writing. half asleep as it were, it gave me an uncharacteristically (for an [b]Eno[/b] song) bad feeling. Drifting in and out of my nap, I was horrified by the length of this monster as the notes really hug a down sounding minor scale, and it was obvious there would be no additional instruments added, and the general arrangement would never change throughout the excursion.
[b]Eno[/b]'s [b]'No Exit'[/b].
I think I was hoping for another [b]"Thursday Afternoon"[/b] ([b]Eno[/b]'s 1985 epic -Which to this day is still probably one of my favorite [b]Eno[/b] tracks, this too clocking in at about one hour in length). "[b]Thursday Afternoon[/b]" although exactly similar to '[b]Neroli[/b]'s theory (notes meandering around without a tonne of construction - [b]Eno[/b]'s fractal three dimensional system, whereby the listener can listen to any part of a song and it would appear to be the same as any other part.) '[b]Thursday Afternoon[/b]' has the prerequisite [b]Harold Budd[/b] style plinky piano (reverb/echo ad nauseam), but also had that glorious angelic synth babble lightly feathering the background) The result of this, is in a word 'heavenly'.
...and although I understand (and love) the nature of minimal -ahem-'pop music' (as I am also aware there are artists that record the blinking of their eyes for four hours), I suppose I wish '[b]Neroli[/b]' had that one extra 'thing' in it.
All this being said, this is a pretty big slab of near silence to digest. Let me have another go.
(By the way. If you would like to purchase this (the whole 57 minutes), it is a pithy .99c on Amazon.com, whereas it is $9.99 on iTunes)
•••3 stars out of 5