Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting
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Artist: Fripp & EnoEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-10-21
Music Label: Dgm / Inner Knot
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Excerpt]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Continued]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Continued]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Continued]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Continued]
- Swastika Girls [Excerpt]
- Swastika Girls [Continued]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Reversed][*][Excerpt]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Reversed][*][Excerpt]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Reversed][*][Excerpt]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Reversed][*][Excerpt]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Reversed][*][Excerpt]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Half Speed][*][Excerpt]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Half Speed][*][Excerpt]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Half Speed][*][Excerpt]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Continued][*]
- The Heavenly Music Corporation [Half Speed][*][Excerpt]
- Swastika Girls [Reversed][*][Excerpt]
- Swastika Girls [Reversed][*][Excerpt]
Music reviews of No Pussyfooting
Music Review: A Definitive Groundbreaking Classic Finally Reissued!!!!
Rating: 5 Stars
It has been 35 years since King Crimson's Robert Fripp and the then-recently departed Roxy Music keyboardist Brian Eno joined forces to create "No Pussyfooting", an album that over the years would go down in history as one of the forerunners of what is now known as Ambient Music.
While music of this nature is now considered commonplace, back in 1973, it was quite a different story. When "No Pussyfooting" was initially released, critical reactions were quite mixed. Some didn't know what to think about an albums worth of sustained guitar lines looped through two tapes machines while others found the sounds embedded in the record grooves to be groundbreaking. Over time, the public slowly caught on to the innovative ideas heard in this album and it's now considered to be a timeless classic.
The original album contained two long tracks (one per side of the original LP). The opening track "The Heavenly Music Corporation" was recorded in August 1972 and consists soley of Robert Fripp's guitar being played through two Revox tape machines. The tape machines are manipulated by Brian Eno to create looped phrases and a massive wall of sound. The overall effect is beautiful and terrifying at the same time. Fripp would later perform similar music to this on his own coining the term "Frippertronics" to this guitar/loop technique.
The other track "Swastika Girls" was recorded one year later is more 'composed' in its over all structure. In addition to Robert Fripp's sustained lead guitar and frentic rhythmic guitar loops, Eno adds a busy synthesizer sequence to the music which repeats throughout the entire piece giving it somewhat of a base-structure.
After its initial release on CD in the early '90s, "No Pussyfooting" fell out-of-print and became a sought-after collectors item. Now in 2008, the album is available once again in its most definitive version - a remastered 2-CD edition that includes the complete original album plus the entire album played in reverse and a half-speed version of the opening track "The Heavenly Music Corporation". The reversed and half-speed versions of these tracks give the music a new dimension and offers a completely new listening perspective. While listening to the reversed version of the album, it's almost unnoticeable that the music is actually being played backwards. In fact, it almost sounds like alternate takes played forwards. As for the half-speed nearly 42-minute version of "The Heavenly Music Corporation", the music becomes a deep ambient drone and doesn't sound too different from today's artists who uses low drones as the basis for their music (think of the long-form drone works of Steve Roach or Robert Rich).
All in all, it's great to have this classic album available again. It has definitely been worth the wait. The music is as wonderful now as it was then and shows just how ahead their time Fripp and Eno were and still are. Without any hesitation, this newly remastered 2-disc edition of "No Pussyfooting" is HIGHLY recommended.
Description of No Pussyfooting
Disc 1: The Heavenly Music Corporation (20:52) 1-1 Section 1 6:17 1-2 Section 2 3:08 1-3 Section 3 2:21 1-4 Section 4 4:53 1-5 Section 5 4:15 Swastika Girls (18:58) 1-6 Section 1 7:32 1-7 Section 2 11:27 The Heavenly Music Corporation (Reversed) (20:52) 1-8 Section 1 4:35 1-9 Section 2 4:21 1-10 Section 3 2:30 1-11 Section 4 3:05 1-12 Section 5 6:22 Disc 2: The Heavenly Music Corporation (Half Speed) (41:49) 2-1 Section 1 12:45 2-2 Section 2 5:54 2-3 Section 3 5:04 2-4 Section 4 9:44 2-5 Section 5 8:22 Swastika Girls (Reversed) (18:54) 2-6 Section 1 10:10 2-7 Section 2 8:46Dance & DJ CDs
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