Classic or Dud: Fripp & Eno's two collaborations

Arena, the opening bit with the floating bottle, uses an Eno tune.

Does anyone know if these two are going to be reissued? Digging around a bit, I see they're both on Editions EG, whose Eno solo stuff has almost entirely been remastered/reissued on Astralwerks...

I'm not sure if this is necessarily an intrinsically good or bad thing, just saying....

it's a trick many people have used before, simply flipping the tape so the mountains of decay slowly get louder & closer & then suddenly break... but it's particularly fun to do this with a record you've already heard dozens & dozens of times, it's like I'm listening to it for the first time & yet I know everything that's coming.

when it's reissued, they should put on the backwards version as bonus tracks

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SzibisxjL._AA240_.jpg

I've only heard Evening Star, but I love it. It's equally appreciable as background or for a close listen, and it has the one qualifier I've come to need from ambient music. I can't stand these constant 'round' synth tones, I don't know how to describe it, they're not bells exactly, but they're very cool and they turn me off everytime I listen. This has the kind of hiss I like, and of course the loops are cool too.

Index of Metals is my favorite track because it closely matches my favorite sound, the fireplace floo in the morning as it's wearing down. I used to sleep beside it before the bus on winter mornings, on the cold stone hearth, with that slowly modulating whistle, and it's just ingrained in my psyche as the most pleasant, wonderful sound.

HOLY SHIT @ that Amazon link.

Can't find a tracklist anywhere, dying for more info. It's a double CD!!!

trashthumb, I like No Pussyfooting even more fwiw.

They both extended my patience a bit too far, really. Sort of OK, though.

no pussyfooting is one of my favorite records everrrr

Unreleased Works of Startling Genius is apparently the CD release of The Cotswold Gnomes (see http://www.dgmlive.com/archive.htm?artist=20&show=1099), which was just a download before.

Robert Fripp talks about remastering (No Pussyfooting) and Evening Star

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"Unreleased Works of Startling Genius"?!?!?

man what a horrible title. that said "no pussyfooting" is great.

All those bed & breakfast backyard shots on the Discipline Global Mobile diary entries are great as far as getting into the Fripp mindset.

"Unreleased Works of Startling Genius" is an awesome title

Thank me later.

Belated thank you. I'm enjoying this more tonight than I did on first listen or two. Maybe the way it towers above so much of the new music I've been listening to lately has something to do with my greater appreciation for it at the moment. Anyway, I do prefer to the studio material, but this is well worth a listen.

Oh wait, I was listening to Equatorial Stars. How idiotic of me. (Granted, I was pretty distracted earlier with a letter and some PC issues.) No wonder it sounded different. Well, thanks anyway. Let's see how the actual live one sounds.

(I guess the good news is that Equatorial Stars was sounding better to me.)

but The Equatorial Stars is great, always has been!

havent heard equatorial stars, but i love the other two. i gotta give it up for "an index of metals" as well, i love that one. plus evening star has such a great cover.

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I'm still not totally sold on some of the rhythms Eno cooks up there, too draggy. But Fripp is great and when Eno is just doing synth washes or whatever he does, that part is fine.

With the right software, you can make your OWN backwards version (and throw lotsa flanging & whatnot on top too!)

the other new one is alright but kind of forgettable

I've just received the DGM remasters of these 2 records. They have long been favourites of mine but these new CDs sound really fantastic. "Evening Star" hasn't changed too much except for extra clarity but "No Pussyfooting" is just amazing. There is so much more to hear in the original tracks this time around. On top of that it has reverse versions (to replicate their 1st radio play on John Peel's show) and a half speed version of 'Heavenly Music' - just because.

Evening Star is such a better ambient record than Another Green World and yet the latter is the one that gets all the praise. Idiots.

OMG

"heavenly music corporation" at half speed!!!

A really fantastic reissue. Love the extra versions.

not so big on the backwards version of "swastika girls" but the backwards / slowed-down versions of "tHMC" are the tits

is there bonus material on "evening star" or is it just remastered?

I think the latter. It's only single disc.

Don't feel like starting a basic "Fripp - C/D?" thread, so I'll post it here instead -- I used to think RF was admirably principled, but after the last year or so, I've come to realize he's just a big fucking baby who needs it absolutely quiet to have his afternoon nap.

yeah and he never buys toilet paper even if he finished the roll

just checking in *checks in*

Still two of my favorite albums.

Love love love Evening Star. Haven't honestly played No Pussyfooting enough times to call it familiar. Must fix this.

i was the same up until a few months ago and now i've been listening to no pussyfooting almost every night since

i need to get the cd to hear those half speed and backwards versions

i also used to think "swastika girls" >>> "the heavenly music corperation" -- maybe i was just really into eno's vcs 3 noises in the background, but once i started really getting into fripp's guitar, and listening for the changes, and how he interacts with the tapes i think i've changed my mind, it's all about this big swirling dark build that resolves with those low sweeping notes at the end and somehow morphs into this really hopeful music, i dunno like a trip that starts out bad and uncontrollable but once you reign it in you start to chill and have the best time

i think "swastika girls" reveals its beauty more immediately so maybe that's why i connected it with it first. the recurring lead is so so gorgeous

I've always thought of "Swastika Girls" as more the less accessible one.

No Pussyfooting is so far beyond classic it's ridiculous. I will always love this album.

when it's reissued, they should put on the backwards version as bonus tracks

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this made me laugh really, really hard

Fripp & Eno albums just showed up on Spotify