{"id":52422,"date":"2022-02-06T03:09:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T03:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=52422"},"modified":"2022-02-06T03:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T03:09:07","slug":"eno-as-weirdist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/02\/06\/eno-as-weirdist\/","title":{"rendered":"Eno as weirdist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Weird Studies<\/em> podcast&#8217;s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdstudies.com\/115\">Episode 115<\/a> drifts into the observation lounge of Brian Eno&#8217;s famous and seminal album <em>Ambient 1: Music for Airports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This album followed the instrumentals on <em>Another Green World<\/em> and <em>Before and After Science<\/em>, and the instrumentals on the Bowie collaboration albums. It then heralded a small but perfectly formed set of such music spread across three solo albums and two made with Cluster. <\/p>\n<p>Much of this then-new type of music could certainly evoke a sense of big weird empty landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>The introductory listening-list of albums would be, in date order:<\/p>\n<p><em>Another Green World<\/em> (just the instrumentals) <\/p>\n<p><em>Before and After Science<\/em> (just the instrumentals) <\/p>\n<p><em>Low<\/em> (with David Bowie, just the instrumentals)<\/p>\n<p><em>Heroes<\/em> (with David Bowie, just the instrumentals)<\/p>\n<p>Then the albums:<\/p>\n<p><em>Ambient 1: Music for Airports<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Music for Films<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cluster &#038; Eno<\/em> (with Cluster)<\/p>\n<p><em>After the Heat<\/em> (with Cluster)<\/p>\n<p><em>Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An argument might also be made that Eno&#8217;s early lyrics are also profoundly weird, if in a dreamy &#8216;British surrealist&#8217; way rather than horror-shocker kind of way. But that&#8217;s for another post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weird Studies podcast&#8217;s latest Episode 115 drifts into the observation lounge of Brian Eno&#8217;s famous and seminal album Ambient &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/02\/06\/eno-as-weirdist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-odd-scratchings","category-podcasts-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}