The Shutov Assembly

Artist: Brian Eno
Label: All Saints
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 031257147828
EAN: 0031257147828
ASIN: B0009Q0F4Q

Release Date: 2005-06-28

The Shutov Assembly

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Tracks:

Triennale
Alhondiga
Markgraph
Lanzarote
Francisco
Riverside
Innocenti
Stedelijk
Ikebukuro
Cavallino

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Album Description

The Shutov Assembly is a journey through Eno's sumptuous audio-visual installations from around the world, each track touching down on a particular event and atmosphere. <P>Includes newly expanded liner notes!

Customer Reviews:

One of Eno's Best Ambient Albums.......2006-02-06

This one is just a scratch less than Ambient 4 or Thursday Afternoon, but is still one of the great ones...very textured, peaceful, moody and ambiguous. This is one of the albums for which Eno realized he had to place a microphone out the window of his studio, because the birdsongs and other natural sounds had become a part of the thinking process for the music he was recording. Wonderful just to hear Eno solo...without a Lanois, Brook, Hassell, Jones, Laraaji or brother Roger in tow.

This album has had a strange afterlife...the best track on the album, Ikebukuro, was remixed and expanded with additional dubbing for Brian's album "Music for Civic Recovery Centre." Eno has referred to this process as 'composting' - the act by which an older piece is digested into and tranformed by a new one. The original version from Shutov is 16 minutes in length, but the "Quiet Club" version runs 45 minutes and features spooky vocoder-treated voices and other surreal oddities. Actually, I found it a bit creepy for the intended use of playing it for people in rehab...but seek it out as it's the companion album to Shutov Assembly.

Not particularly interesting........2005-07-06

Revered by many (at least some of whom likely found this a good return to form after the techno/rock blast of "Nerve Net", released two months prior), "The Shutov Assembly" is sort of a business-as-usual ambient album in the Eno catalog. I've often found that Eno's ambient catalog is a bit mixed-- some of it is pioneering, exciting, and worth attention, and some of it is treading water. This is an album I largely put in the latter category.

Essentially ten pieces composed over a five year period that all have a unified approach, this sounds like a series of ambient experiments that never quite reached fruitition-- for each track, one could picture that an entire album could have been constructed in the same vein, and for some of the better ones ("Alhondiga", "Stedelijk"), this may have been a worthwhile endeavor. But for every interesting piece, there's a whatever pieces ("Markgraph", "Francisco", "Innocenti"). They're not bad, they're just rather hard to feel very excited about. Musically, most of the pieces include a brief loop (1-2 seconds in some cases) over which either longer loops or understated melodies are performed.

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