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The sound of Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) has been described as more subdued than Eno's previous solo album, while the lyrics have darker themes and subject matter. [13] [8] [14] The album's lyrics have been described as "remarkably literate and often humorous" with "quick-fire rhymes, oddball couplets, abrupt demands, and ruthless ...
"Third Uncle" is a 1974 song by the English musician Brian Eno, released on his second solo album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). [3] The song was recorded at Basing Street Studios in Notting Hill, London, in September 1974, and produced by Eno.
Here Come the Warm Jets is the debut solo studio album by English musician Brian Eno (mononymously credited as "Eno"), released on Island Records on 8 February 1974. It was recorded and produced by Eno following his departure from Roxy Music, and blends glam and pop stylings with avant-garde approaches.
A modern remake, The Taking of Tiger Mountain, directed by Hong Kong film director Tsui Hark was released on December 23, 2014. Brian Eno, who found a book of postcards from the opera in San Francisco, later used the title on his second solo album, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy).
The commentaries cover Eno and Mills's influences, working methods, biography and philosophies, and are illustrated with excerpts from Eno's working notebooks. The chapters – and the albums which they precede – are: The Prepared Observer (Here Come the Warm Jets); The Painted Score (Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy));
The CD release shares seven of its track selections with the LP, but, in comparison, features a more lopsided selection of Eno's earlier works, eschewing the harder, rockier numbers entirely in favor of softer pieces more akin to Eno's ambient work, and concluding with a six-minute edit of his ambient piece "1/1", taken from Music for Airports ...
Brian Eno (/ ˈ iː n oʊ /, born Brian Peter George Eno; 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. [1]
Among the guest musicians was Phil Collins, who had played drums on Tiger Mountain and got along with Eno, which led to calling him and his Brand X bandmate Percy Jones to play on Another Green World. [6] On recording the album, Collins recalled: [7] [Eno] gave us all a bit of paper and we made lists from one to 15.