The Shutov Assembly

Track Listings

1. Triennale

2. Alhondiga

3. Markgraph

4. Lanzarote

5. Francisco

6. Riverside

7. Innocenti

8. Stedelijk

9. Ikebukuro

10. Cavallino

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
A collection of moody instrumental experiments, The Shutov Assembly was recorded by Brian Eno between 1985 and 1990. An overt dalliance with atonality, this recording abandons most conventional concepts of pitch, modes, and scales. With most of the 10 compositions shifting gradually and without discernible focus, this is one of Eno's more varied ambient collections. Other than treated keyboard, conventional instrumentation is eschewed. The final recipe results in one ghostly, subdued soundscape after another. Brian Eno's minimalist leanings have rarely been in greater evidence than on this album. Strongly recommended. --Mitch Myers

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The Shutov Assembly

Tracks:

Triennale
Alhondiga
Markgraph
Lanzarote
Francisco
Riverside
Innocenti
Stedelijk
Ikebukuro
Cavallino

Amazon.com

A collection of moody instrumental experiments, The Shutov Assembly was recorded by Brian Eno between 1985 and 1990. An overt dalliance with atonality, this recording abandons most conventional concepts of pitch, modes, and scales. With most of the 10 compositions shifting gradually and without discernible focus, this is one of Eno's more varied ambient collections. Other than treated keyboard, conventional instrumentation is eschewed. The final recipe results in one ghostly, subdued soundscape after another. Brian Eno's minimalist leanings have rarely been in greater evidence than on this album. Strongly recommended. --Mitch Myers

Customer Reviews:

Eno After Hours.......2004-03-06

'The Shutov Assembly' is one of Brian Eno's ambient works, which means that it rewards close listening, but can also work as quiet, background music. The tone of the album is primarily a dark, late night feel... but it's not a downer. It has the dreamlike quality of 'Apollo' along with the mystery of 'On Land.' You can get lost in the density of 'Shutov' very easily, which is exactly the point!

Out of the ten tracks, the highlight for me is "Ikebukuro," which is 16 minutes of organic tranquility. This track is probably my all-time favorite piece of music by Brian, and is worth the price of the CD by iteself. In fact, if played at a quiet volume, the whole album serves as an excellent tool for relaxation. Brian's ambient music is definitely my idea of music therapy.

beautiful luscious eno.......2003-04-10

These sort of patchwork compositions by Brian Eno, great ambient master, give any space a very dynamic ambience. If you're listening to it, it's very interesting thick music with its themes & floating tones. If you're not listening, & it's just on in the background, it FEELS great. Before I got it, from what I'd heard about it I expected it to be sort of more like Ambient 4, but it's not/ It's very soothing & interesting in its own way.

Eno At His Best.......2003-02-14

I love this CD -- I listen to it over and over and over. I think the more you listen to it, the more you understand it and discover little subtleties that you hadn't heard before. I don't find it the least bit "dark" or "eerie;" in fact, I find this CD quite tranquil. I often listen to it to relax, meditate or to help me sleep at night. A good one for chilling out ... Relax and enjoy it! Bravo Brian.

Boring.......2002-12-12

Sorry, Eno. after an eight-year hiatus from instrumental music, the Balding One comes back with...this?? Half of this album sounds like a computer program (I'm not sure that it isn't, what with Eno's "generative" concept), and the other half is just plain boring.

Actually, not all of the album is that bad. The track "Ikekuburo" is really a very good piece, one I enjoy listening to quite often. Buy the album for that track alone - all the rest simply sound too rigid and "programmed" for me.

an ambient classic.......2002-09-08

This is the album i think about when someone mentions Eno. The music has a very distinct, crispy analog sound to it. At first glance all the tracks sound the same, but each of them has it's own mood. Personally I don't think it's eerie at all. Except maybe track 5.

Average customer rating:

One of Eno's Best Ambient Albums
Not particularly interesting.

The Shutov Assembly
Brian Eno
Manufacturer: All Saints
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009Q0F4Q
Release Date: 2005-06-28

Tracks:

Triennale
Alhondiga
Markgraph
Lanzarote
Francisco
Riverside
Innocenti
Stedelijk
Ikebukuro
Cavallino

Album Description

The Shutov Assembly is a journey through Eno's sumptuous audio-visual installations from around the world, each track touching down on a particular event and atmosphere.

Includes newly expanded liner notes!

Customer Reviews:

One of Eno's Best Ambient Albums.......2006-02-06

This one is just a scratch less than Ambient 4 or Thursday Afternoon, but is still one of the great ones...very textured, peaceful, moody and ambiguous. This is one of the albums for which Eno realized he had to place a microphone out the window of his studio, because the birdsongs and other natural sounds had become a part of the thinking process for the music he was recording. Wonderful just to hear Eno solo...without a Lanois, Brook, Hassell, Jones, Laraaji or brother Roger in tow.

This album has had a strange afterlife...the best track on the album, Ikebukuro, was remixed and expanded with additional dubbing for Brian's album "Music for Civic Recovery Centre." Eno has referred to this process as 'composting' - the act by which an older piece is digested into and tranformed by a new one. The original version from Shutov is 16 minutes in length, but the "Quiet Club" version runs 45 minutes and features spooky vocoder-treated voices and other surreal oddities. Actually, I found it a bit creepy for the intended use of playing it for people in rehab...but seek it out as it's the companion album to Shutov Assembly.

Not particularly interesting........2005-07-06

Revered by many (at least some of whom likely found this a good return to form after the techno/rock blast of "Nerve Net", released two months prior), "The Shutov Assembly" is sort of a business-as-usual ambient album in the Eno catalog. I've often found that Eno's ambient catalog is a bit mixed-- some of it is pioneering, exciting, and worth attention, and some of it is treading water. This is an album I largely put in the latter category.

Essentially ten pieces composed over a five year period that all have a unified approach, this sounds like a series of ambient experiments that never quite reached fruitition-- for each track, one could picture that an entire album could have been constructed in the same vein, and for some of the better ones ("Alhondiga", "Stedelijk"), this may have been a worthwhile endeavor. But for every interesting piece, there's a whatever pieces ("Markgraph", "Francisco", "Innocenti"). They're not bad, they're just rather hard to feel very excited about. Musically, most of the pieces include a brief loop (1-2 seconds in some cases) over which either longer loops or understated melodies are performed.

As one would suspect, this remaster is crisp and well balanced, although the artwork is not particularly exciting (it may be expanded, I don't have the original), no liner notes are included. Probably best left for fans and collectors, interested parties in learning more about Eno should start with "Discreet Music".

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