| Artist |
Brian Eno |
| Album Title: |
Before And After Science |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Avant Rock |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
01/00/1977 |
| Reissue Date |
01/00/1987 |
| Label |
EG Records Ltd. |
| Catalog No |
EGCD 32 |
| Bar Code No |
none |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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No One Receiving (3:52)
(Brian Eno/Paul Rudolph) |
| 2.
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Backwater (3:43)
(Brian Eno) |
| 3.
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Kurt's Rejoinder (2:54)
(Brian Eno) |
| 4.
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Energy Fools The Magician (2:06)
(Brian Eno) |
| 5.
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King's Lead Hat (3:59)
(Brian Eno) |
| 6.
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Here He Comes (5:39)
(Brian Eno) |
| 7.
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Julie With ... (6:20)
(Brian Eno) |
| 8.
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By This River (3:06)
(Brian Eno/Achim Roedelius/Möbi Moebius) |
| 9.
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Through Hollow Lands (For Harold Budd) (3:54)
(Brian Eno) |
| 10.
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Spider And I (4:06)
(Brian Eno) |
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| Date Acquired |
05/06/1987 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Northern Lights |
| Purchase Price |
15.00 |
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Notes |
Originally released in 1977.
Recorded at Basing Street Studios, London, and at Conny's Studio outside Cologne, West Germany.
First U.S. CD release. No barcode on back.
(C) 1977 EG Records Ltd.
Marketed by JEM Records, Inc. South Plainfield, NJ 07080.
CD made in Sweden by CD Plant.
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by David Ross Smith
Before and After Science is really a study of "studio composition" whereby recordings are created by deconstruction and elimination: tracks are recorded and assembled in layers, then selectively subtracted one after another, resulting in a composition and sound quite unlike that at the beginning of the process. Despite the album's pop format, the sound is unique and strays far from the mainstream. Eno also experiments with his lyrics, choosing a sound-over-sense approach. When mixed with the music, these lyrics create a new sense or meaning, or the feeling of meaning, a concept inspired by abstract sound poet Kurt Schwitters (epitomized on the track "Kurt's Rejoinder," on which you actually hear samples from Schwitters' "Ursonate"). Before and After Science opens with two bouncy, upbeat cuts: "No One Receiving," featuring the offbeat rhythm machine of Percy Jones and Phil Collins (Eno regulars during this period), and "Backwater." Jones' analog delay bass dominates on the following "Kurt's Rejoinder," and he and Collins return on the mysterious instrumental "Energy Fools the Magician." The last five tracks (the entire second side of the album format) display a serenity unlike anything in the pop music field. These compositions take on an occasional pastoral quality, pensive and atmospheric. Cluster joins Eno on the mood-evoking "By This River," but the album's apex is the final cut, "Spider and I." With its misty emotional intensity, the song seems at once sad yet hopeful. The music on Before and After Science at times resembles Another Green World ("No One Receiving") and Here Come the Warm Jets ("King's Lead Hat") and ranks alongside both as the most essential Eno material.
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