| Artist |
Brian Eno |
| Album Title: |
Sonora |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Avant Rock |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
08/10/1999 |
| Label |
Materiali Sonori |
| Catalog No |
MASO CD 90110 |
| Bar Code No |
9 788886 784146 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase with Sleeve |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Distant Hill (2:50)
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| 2.
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Asian River (4:20)
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| 3.
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Radiothesia III (2:28)
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| 4.
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Swanky (2:43)
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| 5.
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Theme From "Creation" (3:04)
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| 6.
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White Mustang (3:01)
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| 7.
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Left Where It Fell (7:02)
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| 8.
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Spinning Away (5:25)
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| 9.
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Strawinsky (4:13)
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| 10.
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Saint Tom (3:35)
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| 11.
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Theme For "Opera" (2:36)
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| 12.
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Neroli (Edit) (5:02)
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| 13.
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Brian Eno Speaks (7:00)
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| Date Acquired |
10/31/2019 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
bluffgod (Discogs) |
| Purchase Price |
10.00 |
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Notes |
CD in a slimline jewel case, and 95-page bound booklet, written in Italian and English, packaged in a slipcase.
Sonora portraits 1 a cura di Claudio Chianura e Giampiero Bigazzi.
On the CD cover the title of track 9 is printed as ‘Strawinsky’, which is the phonetic transcription, from the Russian, of Stravinsky.
On the outer slipcase "Stravinsky" was used.
On track 13 Eno Speaks courtesy of RAI Radio Tre.
℗1999 Made in Italy
Special thanks to Dominic Norman-Taylor, Opal Music, Maurizio Dami.
Artwork [Progetto Grafico] – Ernest Thornton
Liner Notes – Arturo Stalteri, Claudio Chianura
Liner Notes [Traduzioni] – Melinda Mele
Mastered By – Lorenzo Tommasini
Performer – Brian Eno (tracks: 1 to 12)
Photography – All Saints Archives, Richard Dean
Photography By – Geoff Crawford, Peter Anderson), Roberto Masotti
Producer – Brian Eno (tracks: 1 to 5, 9 to 13)
Producer [Album Production], Liner Notes [A Cura Di] – Giampiero Bigazzi
Production Manager – Francesca Pieraccini
Written-By – B. Eno (tracks: 1 to 12)
Licensed From – All Saints Records Ltd.
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Analyzed Folder: Brian Eno - Sonora_dr.txt
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR09 -6.09 dB -17.91 dB 01 - Distant Hill.flac
DR11 -0.30 dB -16.95 dB 02 - Asian River.flac
DR15 -0.31 dB -20.62 dB 03 - Radiothesia III.flac
DR11 -0.30 dB -14.35 dB 04 - Swanky.flac
DR10 -1.06 dB -14.19 dB 05 - Theme From 'Creation'.flac
DR09 -1.91 dB -16.77 dB 06 - White Mustang.flac
DR10 -0.30 dB -14.48 dB 07 - Left Where It Fell.flac
DR08 -1.10 dB -11.12 dB 08 - Spinning Away.flac
DR11 -0.30 dB -17.30 dB 09 - Strawinsky.flac
DR11 -0.90 dB -15.19 dB 10 - Saint Tom.flac
DR11 -0.30 dB -15.90 dB 11 - Theme for 'Opera'.flac
DR12 -8.76 dB -26.90 dB 12 - Neroli (edit).flac
DR16 -3.02 dB -21.32 dB 13 - Brian Eno Speaks.flac
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Number of Files: 13
Official DR Value: DR11
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| Reviews |
AllMusic Review by David Ross Smith:
Sonora Portraits is an odd selection of Eno's ambient work, compiled mostly from his Glitterbug soundtrack and Music for Films III. The disc serves as a supplement to its companion 93-page booklet of the same title. Materiali Sonori released the package in 1999 as a sort of celebration of Eno and his contribution to the ambient genre.
The booklet comprises four chapters: 1. Sound Ambience: Erik Satie, John Cage, Brian Eno; 2. A [1990] Conversation With Eno; 3. Driving; and 4. Ambient Music. In addition, there is a five-page chronology of Eno's work in the music industry (including a discography) and two pages of "Eno On-Line" -- URLs that link to information on Eno. The text is informative, substantive reading; several small black-and-white photos of Eno are thrown in for good measure.
The three diverse Glitterbug tracks on the Sonora disc are precious, as they're difficult to obtain in any format. While some of Sonora's ambience borders on environmental music, Eno detours and ventures into original hybridized forms on "Stravinsky" (classical synth), "Spinning Away" (mood-evoking vocal pop), and "Saint Tom" (atmospheric new age). The upbeat "Swanky" (from The Drop) and the percussive "Radiothesia III" (from Glitterbug) are ambient highlights. The final track, "Brian Eno Speaks," is a six-minute interview segment in which Eno expresses views similar to those presented on the Imaginary Landscapes video recording. He speaks of creating musical landscapes while attempting to remove himself and his personality from those landscapes. He also expresses his renewed interest in acoustic instruments, and makes several analogies between music and painting, as he often does in interviews and in his own writing.
A reasonably priced Italian import, Sonora Portraits is geared toward Eno devotees: those same fans who invested in (and were enlightened by) More Dark Than Shark (Faber & Faber, 1986), Imaginary Landscapes (Mystic Fire, 1989), and A Year With Swollen Appendices (Faber & Faber, 1996).
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