TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY)

Second Brian Eno solo album. Eno in transition. Still not to his ambient kingdom, but just from melodic Roxy Music art-glam-pop-rock songs of his debut to more ambient - filled sound and rhythm games of his perfect "Another Green World".

So, what do we have here? I think it's a side-track, Eno in searching of new ideas and sounds. Some of them will be widely used by him later, but this album is more testings of future music.

I fully understands that for many listeners this album isn't too much attractive: Eno missed melodies there. Main interest is evolution of multi-textured sound of his first album ( or of Roxy Music, if you want) and changes in rhythms. as a result we have very interesting multy-texture here mixed with quite plain and melody-less songs and proto-new wave rhythmics.

In total, music of that album slightly valuates from last Roxy Music-kind nuances through 10 cc multitextured music to some very original (for that time) african rhythms ( you can clearly hear here some future Talking Heads music).

So, for those, who is interested in evolution of Eno music, roots of his later producing works with Talking Heads and some Bowie albums, album is quite interesting. For regular listeners it coud be in some moments boring because of lack of melodism, some monotonious sound and proto-new wave simplicity in arrangements.