From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V14 #16 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, January 26 2010 Volume 14 : Number 016 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Eno-special ["Carien Overdijk" ] [AVALON] Eno-special cont. ["Carien Overdijk" ] Re: [AVALON] Eno-special [jocelynfiske@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Eno-special ["Carien Overdijk" ] Re: [AVALON] Eno-special [jocelynfiske@aol.com] [AVALON] BF's Haitian donation [jocelynfiske@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Supergrass (sort of) cover Roxy... [kwil632057@aol.com] [AVALON] Re: Eno [MarlanaK@webtv.net (M.M.K.)] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:50:58 +0100 From: "Carien Overdijk" Subject: [AVALON] Eno-special Hi all, Was surprised to find no reviews of the BBC4 Eno-special of last weekend in my Avalon-digest. Did nobody watch??? The documentary paid due homage to the broad and endlessly creative career of early Roxy's electronic wierd tunes brewer. Home-studio-talks with present-day Eno were interspersed with shots of his '77 million paintings' project, his early computer game 'The Game of Life', his iPod app Bloom (stimulates self-reflection and tranquillizes), his fascination with Stafford Beer's The Brain of the Firm etc.etc. There were also clips of his exchanges with biologist Richard Dawkins and writer Malcolm Gladwell, and a U2 bandmember. His creative shower seems to have intensified rather than dried up as is -alas - - the case with his great opposite Ferry (masterperformer, nostalgia-dealer). He talked about the innovations of The Beatles, about his own attempts at grasping the essence of music, the fact that 'the music currency has devalued' (now that everything is downloadable and deletable) and his present study of the magic of gospel ('it's about the possibility of transcendence, about loss of ego, about the basic human attitude hope'). He demonstrated how he experimented with choir and gospel sounds in his own tracks - the vast majority of which are still unpublished, sleeping in his computer. Eno 'makes his own targets instead of shooting at other people's.' In the second hour there was fabulous footage of early Roxy on stage (Ladytron, Grey Lagoons) that I had not seen yet (and I really thought I had seen it all). In Grey Lagoons Andy M. and Eno are at some point hammering away on two tambourines - hilarious shot. Also, nice clips of Eno-restyled Bowie (heroes, when you're a boy), Eno-restyled U2, ditto Coldplay etc etc. With complimentary comments by the artists who underwent Eno's healthy rejuvenation/rebirthing-treatment. (U2 was a close shave - neither management nor Eno himself believed in cooperation. Eno thought they were far too mainstream. Bono insisted and we know the outcome). I'm sorry I couldn't record it, it deserves repeated viewing. Hope somebody can tree it here... Carien ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:31:32 +0100 From: "Carien Overdijk" Subject: [AVALON] Eno-special cont. I forgot: John Cale, Talking heads & Byrne himself were also in the second Eno-hour on BBC4. There was even a recording of David Byrne on his last tour with their joint venture Everything that happens (where of course Eno was absent), and where midlifer Byrne sat playing the guitar with a great performance of ballet-dancers around him. Wish I had gone to Utrecht to see Byrne on his Dutch stop at the tour. Eno-appreciators: go ye and hear the album Everything that happens, it is soothing and inspiring. Carien ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:30:10 -0500 From: jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Eno-special Well, that review was almost as good as watching the programme itself Carien, thanks for taking the time to do it. Unfortunately I couldn't record it either but saw the rerun last night. It was very interesting on a lot of levels, but I have to say I nearly lost the will to live when Eno was describing 'systems'. Techno nerds, on the other hand, would have been practically orgasmic. Eno's humour was well to the fore. He explained that he had to mark all tracks and channels on his computer very, very carefully as it was highly probable that, given the way he works, both Coldplay and U2 would be given the same track to put on their respective albums without him realising until it was too late. And the classic line of the night had to be his musing "now what have I got in the wobbly sound department?" However, I am certain that the man who questions everything (see My Life With Swollen Appendices) hasn't the answer to this. Why do men of a certain age insist on wearing their reading glasses on a chain around their necks? It's just wrong Eno. J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:18:53 +0100 From: "Carien Overdijk" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Eno-special Sharp observations Jocelyn, and agreed, Eno's humour exceeds his musicality. Yet his wobbly sound dept could be more amazing than he makes it seem. Even his Music for Airports makes more sense to me now (it's more than just a playful Eno-experiment, which he himself worded as something like 'what happens to music if you rip the melody and the rhythm-section?') Re techno-systems, I share your aversion. Yet Eno managed to produce wonderful things through systems-thinking (both visually and sonically) and somehow or other, it's systems that trigger him into creative thinking. And what I gathered from the interview is that Eno is obsessed with new connections. Between disciplines, between old and new, between cultures. His ideas could save the world, and he insinuated as much. Why don't he and Obama team up! Re reading-glasses: wrong, absolutely. And as Ferry's negative he lost his hair long ago at that. But doesn't he look a lot more vital than mr.The-past-was-so-much-better? Carien ----- Original Message ----- From: jocelynfiske@aol.com To: c.overdijk@tiscali.nl ; avalon@smoe.org Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [AVALON] Eno-special Well, that review was almost as good as watching the programme itself Carien, thanks for taking the time to do it. Unfortunately I couldn't record it either but saw the rerun last night. It was very interesting on a lot of levels, but I have to say I nearly lost the will to live when Eno was describing 'systems'. Techno nerds, on the other hand, would have been practically orgasmic. Eno's humour was well to the fore. He explained that he had to mark all tracks and channels on his computer very, very carefully as it was highly probable that, given the way he works, both Coldplay and U2 would be given the same track to put on their respective albums without him realising until it was too late. And the classic line of the night had to be his musing "now what have I got in the wobbly sound department?" However, I am certain that the man who questions everything (see My Life With Swollen Appendices) hasn't the answer to this. Why do men of a certain age insist on wearing their reading glasses on a chain around their necks? It's just wrong Eno. J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:02:08 -0500 From: jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Eno-special And as Ferry's negative he lost his air long ago at that And as Ferry's opposite he has "tens of thousands of unreleased tracks" on his comuputers ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:41:34 -0500 From: jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] BF's Haitian donation I wouldn't normally be encouraging you all to gazump eachother but this is a really important cause. Two prints (including this one and another unseen from Siren) came up for auction in November through an established auction house and they were both valued at around 7,000 - 12,000 UK pounds. So hands in pockets. J Oxfam Haiti Appeal - Celebrity Auction: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Original-Roxy-Music-Artwork-donated-by-Bryan-Ferry_W0QQ itemZ360229177454QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Music_Music_Memorabilia_LE?hash=item53 df55086e#ht_823wt_1167 Bryan Ferry has donated a piece of original Roxy Music artwork. It is a never seen before print of an ou...t-take from the Roxy Music album 'Avalon'. Signed on the reverse, with a stamp of authenticity the image is 20x20 inches, and has been framed by John Jones. The image is printed on Fuji Crystal Archive C - Type Paper by Metro Imaging London. Bryan on the photo session: "Following in the Roxy tradition of using iconic female images on their album covers, it was decided this time to depict a Celtic warrior queen, gazing towards Avalon. She is wearing medieval armour and holding a Merlin, (a small bird of prey commonly used by lady falconers). The photograph was taken at dawn on the west coast of Ireland in 1982. The costume and styling was supervised by Antony Price, the photographer was Neil Kirk, and the Art Director was Bryan Ferry. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:16:32 -0500 From: kwil632057@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Supergrass (sort of) cover Roxy... Agreed. Strangely ska in it's approach. Bet it sounds amazing live... J - -----Original Message----- From: Judy Kaufman To: avalon@smoe.org Sent: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:41 Subject: Re: [AVALON] Supergrass (sort of) cover Roxy... All of the songs are true to the originals. LITD isn't half bad. I've heard uch worse. JK - ---- Original Message ----- rom: kwil632057@aol.com o: avalon@smoe.org ent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 6:45 AM ubject: [AVALON] Supergrass (sort of) cover Roxy... n their forthcoming 'Hot Rats' sideproject... J __________________________________________________________________________ o unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:12:41 -0600 From: MarlanaK@webtv.net (M.M.K.) Subject: [AVALON] Re: Eno Speaking of Eno---He did the music to the movie "The Lovely Bones". Very good since the movie was on a dark subject so his music was a very good fit. Always, Marlana ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V14 #16 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest