Eno Moebius Roedelius - After The Heat (c) 1996 Gyroscope
Artist....: Eno Moebius Roedelius
Album.....: After The Heat
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 10
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Gyroscope
Catalogue#: GYR 6621-2
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/release/722661
Tracklist:
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01 Foreign Affairs 03:31
02 The Belldog 06:18
03 Base & Apex 04:33
04 Tzima N'arki 04:37
05 Luftschloß 03:14
06 Oil 04:17
07 Broken Head 05:27
08 Light Arms 01:32
09 The Shade 03:11
10 Old Land 04:16
Total:52,10 MB/ 40:56 min
Release Notes:
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Ambient pioneer, glam-rocker, hit producer, multimedia artist,
technological innovator, worldbeat proponent and self-described
non-musician -- over the course of his long, prolific and immensely
influential career, Brian Eno was all of these things and much, much
more. Determining his creative pathways with the aid of a deck of
instructional, tarot-like cards called Oblique Strategies, Eno
championed theory over practice, serendipity over forethought, and
texture over craft; in the process, he forever altered the ways in
which music is approached, composed, performed and perceived, and
everything from punk to techno to new age bears his unmistakable
influence.
The first thing you'll likely be doing on hearing this reissue of
'After the Heat' is checking what year it was originally put out.
1978?! Pull the other one... The second harvest from Brian Eno's
collaborative venture with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius of
Cluster, 'After the Heat' sounds as fresh as a daisy and could probably
lay claim to sowing the seeds for a whole cavalcade of genres that
range from creamy-electronica and synth-fed hip-hop through to
breakcore... Opening with the Vangelis draped environs of 'Foreign
Affairs', Eno Moebius and Roedelius tickle a cyclical set of rhythms
(piano, synths, bass etc.) into a lurching production so polished you
can see your face in it. Following on from this, 'The Belldog' is a
growling hunk of electro-pop, whose grandstanding strings are either
Wagnerian or proto-breakcore (depending on your predilection) whilst
the steely vocals are beamed in direct from an orbiting New Romantic
satellite and shades of Eno's work with Robert Fripp billow forth.
Elsewhere, 'Base & Apex' is an opaque electronic scale that flirts with
the 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe' theme-tune joyously, 'Oil' is
one of the most convincing unions of piano (Satie) and silicon you'll
ever hear, whilst the gurgling restraint of synth vistas of the closing
'Old Land' will leave you dewy-eyed in awe.
Brian Eno and Cluster (Dieter Mbius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius)
collaborated on two beautiful albums in the mid 1970s - Cluster and Eno
and After the Heat. If the first of these albums caught the makeshift
trio at their peak, landing Enos soporific atmospherics alongside the
pacific momentum of Clusters cute melodies, After the Heat captures
the duo at a fulcrum point in their respective careers. Enos music
would soon dissolve into pleasant-cum-maudlin ambience and the Cluster
duos solo recordings jettisoned wide-eye enchantment for gawky
repetitions and chintzy comfort. After the Heat is a strangely tense
listen for this reason: you can hear the trio gesturing in different,
not entirely advisable, directions. Roedelius piano pieces are a bit
wet and Enos vocals are too mannered and ill at ease to work in these
pastoral contexts. After the Heat is gorgeous but slightly problematic:
this is the beginning of an extended period of laurel resting for both
artists. Often you want to nudge them out of their wonderland.