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Studio Album, released in 2003 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Fixed Ratio Harmonic Bells Search BRIAN ENO January 07003: Bell Studies For The Clock Of The Long Now lyrics Music tabs (tablatures)Search BRIAN ENO January 07003: Bell Studies For The Clock Of The Long Now tabs Line-up / Musicians- Brian Eno / all instruments Releases informationCD Opal 02 (2003) Thanks to useful_idiot for the additionEdit this entry |
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"January 07003: Bell Studies For The Clock Of The Long Now" was my first ever Brian
Eno album and experience,in a time when my collection of Eno and my stretch of
horizon was resumed only to this one (!). It did not say much,nor did it made me feel
truly exhilarated,although any decent electronic gesture seems to please me all the
time. Now I am talking from the perspective of having almost every Brian Eno album.
And this album has moved to a worthy place and a style of great afinity.Calling it an ambient style extreme would be farfetched,because it is not really a unique thing (and almost thirty years of on-going ambient music pulse will surely prove that to you),yet it certainly helds a magic of its own,being just conservated in the old-fashioned style.Brian Eno goes once more alone in dedicating time and passion to an (considerably) epic size construction,in which the use of sound manipulation and electronic effects are once more a law and a perfection goal.Corelations,from my point of view,are limited.Would go towards the constant line of "Thursday Afternoon" or "Neroli",but not really that much of a resemblance do I find.Perhaps the best point of view would be a classic ambient acomplishment,in which music is dilluated in a unitary form.It's not the far point of the two long tracks I've mentioned above,but it is certainly not the last 8 discographic years revelead (a modern,electronic-inclined fashionable form).Thinking results nominate this as a one-time only experiment and,in the same time,they don't.Anyway,that's just substance of discussion.
Literally,these are studies of a music composed by bells.This is an understanding session,an exploration of the sound like rarely Eno has done.On the profoundness of the artistic moves and on the skills exteriorization I can only congratulate the master and appreciate the rafined results.Eno looks after a music of delicate gesture and of very subtile approach.Everything seems fragile,yet consists of compact pulses.The flow is unitary and far from rigid.The ambient danger of monotony is (once more) succesfully avoided (that of course if you have the Eno afinity,necesarry as always).The sounds move through spheres of imagination,of serene movement,of sweet unsatiable dreams,of clouds close to the point of nothing.and of anything.The estetic power of the bells offer a great character.The 75 minutes session is one clearly in the name of art and in the name of ambient perfection.'The Long Now" is infinity,"The Clock" is the measurement of the infinity."The Long Now" is the grand though."The Clock" is the ideal of that grand though.For the mind that desire knowledge and for the soul that desires the most subtile form of art, "January 07003: Bell Studies For The Clock Of The Long Now" is quite refreshing and quite an abvious delight.But the message goes also at the point of a very nice and-in essence-lasting moment of music.The form and the motivations of this album are pluri-motivated.The gesture is a gem.A pill of appealing greatness in a saturated scale.
Three point five reference for this album.What lacks or may lack is mostly subjectivity issues.I just tried to define here what is fabulous symbolically in this album.Besides that, it's a thing of good taste to have this,to listen to this,to appreciate this.Recommended for the vast knowledged of Brian Eno's world,work,word.Beyond?Perhaps.
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