Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon (1985) {2009 Virgin DSD Remaster}
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Ambient / Electronic / Avant-Garde / Experimental
Brian Eno's
Thursday Afternoon is included in his Original Masters "Soundtracks
Works" edition as it is, after all, a soundtrack to a video that Eno
himself made in 1984. It consists of seven practically immobile shots of
a nude or semi-nude model filtered through a variety of video effects,
shown "vertically" with the TV set turned on its right side. Thursday
Afternoon debuted at a high profile art gallery in New York, and at that
time Eno's cadre of boosters proclaimed that he was going to do for
visual art what he'd already done for music. Unfortunately, the video
was long, static, and to most viewers rather boring; several New York's
film and art critics advised Eno to stick to music, and so far, he has
largely done so, despite a handful of low-key gallery installations held
in Europe since that time. Recent years have witnessed Eno redirecting
his visual work away from video into the field of computer animation.
Nonetheless,
Thursday Afternoon has managed to carve out a unique niche of its own as
a piece of music, as it is the longest of his ambient audio works,
running 61 minutes on this new CD edition, as compared to the 59 minutes
of the first CD version and the 82 minutes of the laserdisc and VHS
versions. The music was recorded by the same three-way combination that
produced Apollo, Eno, Roger Eno, and Daniel Lanois. As compared to the
totally fluid stasis heard in Music for Airports segments such as 2/2,
there is a lot more going on in Thursday Afternoon. However, it is
applied to a much longer time frame; Thursday Afternoon is more than
twice as long as Discreet Music. A fair amount of the additional detail
is only audible barely above the threshold of human hearing, so the
droning keyboard parts in the foreground mostly dominate the texture.
Thursday Afternoon seems like one of the best stand-alone works among
Eno's cycle of ambient music projects, and yet one can appreciate that
this has an appeal a great deal more limited than that of Music for
Airports. For those willing to take the plunge Thursday Afternoon has
never appeared in better sound than here and with any luck the return of
the long-unavailable video is impending. Such a re-release will find an
openhearted welcome from Eno's fans, save those with flat-screen TVs. |
tracklist:
01 - Thursday Afternoon
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