Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting (1973) [2CD]

Robert Fripp & Brian Eno - No Pussyfooting (1973) [2CD]

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At the same time Brian Eno was working on Here Come the Warm Jets, he was flexing his experimental muscle with this album of tape delay manipulation recorded with Robert Fripp. In a system later to be dubbed Frippertronics, Eno and Fripp set up two reel-to-reel tape decks that would allow audio elements to be added to a continuing tape loop, building up a dense layer of sound that slowly decayed as it turned around and around the deck's playback head. Fripp later soloed on top of this. No Pussyfooting represents the duo's initial experiments with this system, a side each.



"Heavenly Music Corporation" demonstrates the beauty of the setup, with several guitar and synth elements building on top of each other, the music slowly evolving, and Fripp ending the piece with low dive-bombing feedback that swoops over the soundscape, bringing the piece to its conclusion. "Swastika Girls," on the other hand, shows how the system can be abused. With too many disconnected sounds sharing the space, some discordant, some melodic, the resulting work lacks form and structure. Eno and Fripp later refined the system on Evening Star and Eno's solo album Discreet Music. Fripp would take the system and base whole albums and live appearances around it (particularly Let the Power Fall). But it was here on No Pussyfooting where it all started. [Discipline's 2008 reissue included a bonus disc featuring half-speed and reversed versions of both compositions.]



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Tracklist:

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CD1

01 - The Heavenly Music Corporation

02 - The Heavenly Music Corporation

03 - The Heavenly Music Corporation

04 - The Heavenly Music Corporation

05 - The Heavenly Music Corporation

06 - Swastika Girls

07 - Swastika Girls

08 - The Heavenly Music Corporation (reversed)

09 - The Heavenly Music Corporation (reversed)

10 - The Heavenly Music Corporation (reversed)

11 - The Heavenly Music Corporation (reversed)

12 - The Heavenly Music Corporation (reversed)



CD2

01 - The Heavenly Music Corporation (half speed)

02 - The Heavenly Music Corporation (half speed)

03 - The Heavenly Music Corporation (half speed)

04 - The Heavenly Music Corporation (half speed)

05 - The Heavenly Music Corporation (half speed)

06 - Swastika Girls (reversed)

07 - Swastika Girls (reversed)



*2008 Opal / Discipline Global Mobile / RF | DGM5007





Personnel:

Robert Fripp / Gibson Les Paul electric guitar

Brian Eno / Tape delay system, VCS3 synthesizer, sequencer