Oh wow! A music thread by me that's not about Beatles!! (don't get used to it 
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This is an old album I sort of stole/inherited from my dad. I've always loved Brian Eno, but this album in particular is a concept that is so awesome I'm surprised it's not more popular.
In the early 70's Brian Eno, a musical genius if you ask me, had an accident that even though didn't hurt him too bad, left him in a bed-ridden stiff position. A friend lent him a record of 18th century harp music to lsiten while he was in bed. I'll quote from the CD's liner notes directly:
Now.. to add the awesomeness... the way Eno went about recording this record is also ground breaking... he set up a semi-autonomous tape looping with a synthesizer, an equalizer, an echo unit and looped it with a delay of sorts. I wish I understood the music theory better, but I find his approach to be mind-blowingly awesome. He says himself in the intro to the liner notes:
The liner notes come with a diagram of the system he set up, but my scanner is on the fritz so I can't scan the complete version I have before me and Google Image Search only managed to find pretty much half of it, but it's the interesting part, check it out:
The line to the left connects in the complete version to three boxes in a straight line, it starts with a "Synthesizer with digital recall system", moves on to a "graphic equalizer", then to a "echo unit" and then merges to the line you see in the image.
I just had to share the awesomeness. Last.fm has spurred me into ripping my CDs again and when I got to this one I recalled how it had blown my mind when I discovered it when I was 19. Pre-Beatles fandom, even.
Any other Brian Eno fans out there? Get the album "Discreet Music". Seriously.
)This is an old album I sort of stole/inherited from my dad. I've always loved Brian Eno, but this album in particular is a concept that is so awesome I'm surprised it's not more popular.
In the early 70's Brian Eno, a musical genius if you ask me, had an accident that even though didn't hurt him too bad, left him in a bed-ridden stiff position. A friend lent him a record of 18th century harp music to lsiten while he was in bed. I'll quote from the CD's liner notes directly:
No one had ever suggested you listen to his album at a low level as part of the background sound before, which is why Eno is credited as "the father of ambient music".
Now.. to add the awesomeness... the way Eno went about recording this record is also ground breaking... he set up a semi-autonomous tape looping with a synthesizer, an equalizer, an echo unit and looped it with a delay of sorts. I wish I understood the music theory better, but I find his approach to be mind-blowingly awesome. He says himself in the intro to the liner notes:
The result is, indeed, awesome.
The liner notes come with a diagram of the system he set up, but my scanner is on the fritz so I can't scan the complete version I have before me and Google Image Search only managed to find pretty much half of it, but it's the interesting part, check it out:
The line to the left connects in the complete version to three boxes in a straight line, it starts with a "Synthesizer with digital recall system", moves on to a "graphic equalizer", then to a "echo unit" and then merges to the line you see in the image.
I just had to share the awesomeness. Last.fm has spurred me into ripping my CDs again and when I got to this one I recalled how it had blown my mind when I discovered it when I was 19. Pre-Beatles fandom, even.
Any other Brian Eno fans out there? Get the album "Discreet Music". Seriously.
