Brian Eno / Before And After Science
Artist Brian Eno
Album Title: Before And After Science
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Avant Rock
Format Vinyl
Released 01/00/1977
Label Polydor Records
Catalog No MPF 1131
Bar Code No none
Reissue Yes
Packaging LP Sleeve
Tracks
A1. No One Receiving (3:41)
A2. Backwater (3:42)
A3. Kurt's Rejoinder (2:53)
A4. Energy Fools The Magician (2:03)
A5. King's Lead Hat (3:57)
B1. Here He Comes (5:39)
B2. Julie With... (6:24)
B3. By This River (3:01)
B4. Through Hollow Lands (For Harold Budd) (4:15)
B5. Spider And I (4:25)
Date Acquired 06/10/2013
Personal Rating
Acquired from Electric Fetus - Minneapolis
Purchase Price 16.79

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Notes

Notes:
Line drawings by Peter Schmidt on back side of jacket numbered 1-4 and are not colored as on some editions of this release.
Eno writes in the credits...
Apart from our collaboration on this record, Peter and I have been working together and comparing notes for some time. In 1975 we produced a boxed set or oracle cards called 'Oblique Strategies', which were used extensively in the making of this record.

Credits:
Artwork – Peter Schmidt
Artwork [Cover Artwork] – Cream
Cover [Design] – Brian Eno
Engineer – Conny Plank, Dave Hutchins, Rhett Davies
Photography By [Cover] – Ritva Saarikko
Producer – Brian Eno, Rhett Davies

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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