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Brian Eno - I: Instrumental (1993)

Brian Eno - I: Instrumental (1993)

3CDs | Release: 1993 | Label: Virgin | MP3 320 kbps | 708 MB

Genre: Ambient, Art Rock, Experimental, Soundtrack

Ever the iconoclast, if there is one thing that Brian Eno has done with any degree of consistency throughout his varied career, it is presenting his art in an array of perpetually "out of the box" forums. All that changed -- in a manner of speaking -- with the release of two companion multi-disc compilations. Eno Box I: Instrumentals (1994) condenses his wordless creations, while Eno Box II: Vocals (1993) does the same for the rest of his major works on a similarly sized volume. Interestingly -- and in his typically contrary fashion -- this initial installment was actually issued last. Each of Eno Box I: Instrumentals' three CDs respectively concentrates on a specific facet of the artist's copious back catalog. Disc one takes a more or less chronological approach to instrumental selections from the Eno albums Another Green World (1975) and Before and After Science (1977) prior to focusing on his movie music. "Dover Beach" -- his contribution to the Derek Jarman-directed masterpiece Jubilee (1978) -- is then followed by titles from the limited-edition vinyl promotional Directors' Edition of Music for Films (1976), the publicly released Music for Films (1978), and Music for Films, Vol. 2 (1983), concluding with several sides from Music for Films, Vol. 3 (1988). Disc two picks right up where the first left off, garnering four additional Music for Films, Vol. 3 entries prior to providing an overview to Eno's collaborations with notables such as David Bowie, Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno, and Robert Fripp. Disc three then offers samplings from Music for Airports (1978), The Shutov Assembly (1992), On Land (1982), Thursday Afternoon (1985), Discreet Music (1975), and Neroli (1993), several of which have been truncated for inclusion here. It is also worth mentioning that all the contents are encoded with exceptionally high-fidelity super-bit mapping. The physical box itself is an elaborate affair designed by Russell Mills, and the 30-page liner booklet contains text by U.K. rock critic Paul Morley and the usual discographical information that states the sources for each of the 54 entries.

The first of Virgin/EG's 1993 Brian Eno box sets is maybe the better of the two, if not quite as much fun. This one is devoted entirely to his more exploratory instrumental work, filling three CDs with twenty years worth of sometimes blissful but just as often unsettling soundscapes from an artist who almost single-handedly redefined our perception of electronic music. Do I really need to fill in the blanks? Eno was beginning to grasp the true potential of the synthesizer even while flaunting his feathers boas in ROXY MUSIC, pushing the boundaries of the nascent technology away from the stylistic overkill and copycat classical riffing of so many keyboard wizards in the 1970s. It helped that he was, at best (and by his own admission) an enthusiastic amateur, and the lack of virtuoso dexterity probably forced him to instead travel the more sheltered avenues of nuance, atmosphere, depth, and space. All of which are here in abundance: the soothing ambient drift studies, the industrial Post-Rock rhythms, and even a few pioneering excursions into primitive World Music anthropology. But unlike the more lopsided arrangement of the Eno Box II (vocal) compilation, this set is more thoughtfully organized. The first disc looks (mostly) at his extensive soundtrack projects, drawing from all four volumes of his ongoing "Music For Films" (a few of which were not widely distributed, and never on CD). The second disc explores his wide-ranging collaborative efforts, working alongside such notables as David Bowie, Daniel Lanois, Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, the Krautrock duo of Mobius and Roedelius, and of course the Crimson King himself, Robert Fripp. That's 47 separate tracks on the first two CDs alone, many of them rare, and quite a few taken from alternate- and/or out-takes of more familiar album material. Thus the rollicking "No One Receiving", from 1977's "Before and After Science", here becomes the ominous, throbbing "M386". And the rhythm box generated "In Dark Trees", off the celebrated 1975 album "Another Green World", is reworked into "Reactor". And so forth. Some are complete in themselves; others are mere snippets of studio doodling; but all of them work together as an aural slideshow of the creative process in evolution. Disc three collects a generous sampling of Eno's longer sound installations, from 1978's "Music For Airports" (which unnerved travelers when it was briefly piped into actual airport terminals) to the near-subliminal "Neroli" (1993). Most are edits, but lose nothing in the abridgement. I mean, let's face it: most of these longer, album-length improvisations work just as well in nine or ten minutes as they do over the course of an entire hour. And you can always set your CD player to 'repeat', to get the full, unexpurgated effect of each selection. Add a thorough, thoughtful essay by noted electronic musician and author David Toop ("Oceans of Sound"), and there you have it: the perfect gift for all your Enophile friends and neighbors who can't afford to stock their CD shelves with everything the man ever produced (the sum of which would no doubt fill a small room). It might be only the tip of a much larger musical iceberg, but this collection will give newcomers a clear glimpse of what's lurking just below the waterline, and maybe allow veteran fans to consolidate an already overcrowded library.

Tracklist

CD1

01.Another Green World (1:41)

02.Energy Fools the Magician (2:08)

03.Dover Beach (4:37)

04.Slow Water (3:19)

05.Untitled (2:06)

06.Chemin de Fer (1:58)

07.Empty Landscape (1:26)

08.Reactor (1:41)

09.The Secret (1:13)

10.Don't Look Back (1:00)

11.Marseilles (1:29)

12.Two Rapid Formations (3:26)

13.Sparrowfall I (1:11)

14.Sparrowfall II (1:44)

15.Sparrowfall III (1:24)

16.Events in Dense Fog (3:44)

17.'There Is Nobody' (1:44)

18.Patrolling Wire Borders (1:43)

19.A Measured Room (1:04)

20.Task Force (1:22)

21.M386 (2:51)

22.Final Sunset (4:12)

23.The Dove (1:26)

24.Roman Twilight (3:39)

25.Dawn, Marshland (3:14)

26.Always Returning I (4:37)

27.Signals (3:59)

28.Drift Study (2:32)

29.Approaching Taidu (3:27)

30.Always Returning II (3:09)

31.Asian River (4:22)

CD2

01.Theme From Creation (3:08)

02.Saint Tom (3:37)

03.Warszawa (6:21)

04.Chemistry (6:53)

05.Courage (3:39)

06.Moss Garden (5:20)

07.Tension Block (3:15)

08.Strong Flashes Of Light (3:08)

09.More Volts (2:50)

10.Mist / Rhythm (3:35)

11.Ho Renomo (5:07)

12.A Stream With Bright Fish (3:54)

13.Fleeting Smile (2:32)

14.An Arc Of Doves (6:23)

15.Stars (7:57)

16.An Index Of Metals (Edit) (7:13)

CD3

01.1/1 (16:36)

02.Ikebukuro (Edit) (7:19)

03.The Lost Day (9:14)

04.Thursday Afternoon (Edit) (11:51)

05.Discreet Music (Edit) (15:02)

06.Dunwich Beach, Autumn 1960 (7:09)

07.Neroli (Edit) (9:41)

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