BRIAN ENO "TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY)" 1974 ISLAND UK EX-/EX- GATEFOLD

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ARTISTS: BRIAN ENO

TITLE: “TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY)”

TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW):

A1

Burning Airlines Give You So Much More

3:15

A2

Back In Judy's Jungle

5:14

A3

The Fat Lady Of Limbourg

5:05

A4

Mother Whale Eyeless

6:00

A5

The Great Pretender

5:10

B1

Third Uncle

5:01

B2

Put A Straw Under Baby

3:28

B3

The True Wheel

5:20

B4

China My China

5:45

B5

Taking Tiger Mountain

6:00

Companies, etc.

• Published By – E.G. Music Ltd.

• Recorded At – Island Studios

• Copyright (c) – E.G. Music Ltd.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Island Records Ltd.

• Printed By – Robor Ltd.

Credits

• Arranged By – Brian Eno, Turrington* (tracks: B1), Phil Manzanera

• Artwork [Lithographs] – Peter Schmidt (13)

• Bass – Brian Turrington

• Drums – Freddie Smith*

• Engineer – Rhett Davies

• Engineer [Assistant] – Robert Ash

• Guitar – Phil Manzanera

• Other [Special Aide] – Nicholas Pearson

• Other [Special Equipment] – Bill Kelsey

• Percussion, Backing Vocals – Robert Wyatt

• Photography By [Polaroid Pictures] – Lorenz Zatecky

• Producer [Assistant] – Phil Manzanera

• Producer, Vocals, Keyboards, Effects, Guitar [Snake Guitar] – Brian Eno

• Typography [Lettering] – John Bonis

• Written-By – Eno*, Manzanera* (tracks: B3)

Notes

A5 runs out to a continuous locked groove.

Album comes in a gatefold sleeve with polylined pale blue Island inner sleeve and 'pink rim' labels which list songs numbered from 1 to 10.
Track timings given as on release.

Recorded at Island Studios, London, September 1974.

Mastered at Trident Studios by Ray Staff

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 1): ILPS 9309 A-3U 'RAYS'

• Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 1): ILPS 9309 B-4U 'RAYS'

• Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 2 (I-4, 'RAYS' Etched)): I-4 ILPS 9309 A-3U 'RAYS'

• Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 2 (I-5, 'RAYS' Etched)): I-5 ILPS 9309 B-4U 'RAYS'
  

LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS U.K.

CAT. #: ILPS 9309

YEAR: 1974

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD ITSELF IS IN EX/EX- CONDITION. NO VISIBLE WEAR, SCRATCHES, LINES, BLEMS ETC. BOTH LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER TO THE VINYL. BOTH SIDES PLAY SUPER CLEAN. THERE'S SOME VERY VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND SOUND ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES, THE SONGS PLAY VERY CLEAN.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE JACKET EX/EX- CONDITION, NO SEAMS SPLITS, WRITING ON THE JACKET, NICE CLEAN STRAIGHT EDGES, ETC. SOMEONE WROTE THEIR NAME ON THE FRONT COVER (SEE PHOTO). NICE GATEFOLD JACKET.

MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. U.K. IMPORT. INCLUDES ORIGINAL ISLAND INNER SLEEVE

MORE ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE:

Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI (/?i?no?/; born Brian Peter George Eno, 15 May 1948) is an English musician, record producer, visual artist, and theorist best known for his pioneering work in ambient music and contributions to rock, pop, and electronica.A self-described "non-musician", Eno has helped introduce unique conceptual approaches and recording techniques to contemporary music.He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures.

Born in Suffolk, Eno studied painting and experimental music at the art school of Ipswich Civic College in the mid 1960s, and then at Winchester School of Art. He joined glam rock group Roxy Music as synthesiser player in 1971, recording two albums with the group. He departed in 1973 to record a number of solo albums, coining the term "ambient music" to describe his work on releases such as Another Green World (1975) and Music for Airports (1978). He also collaborated with artists such as Robert Fripp, Cluster, Harold Budd, David Bowie, and David Byrne, and produced albums by artists including John Cale, Jon Hassell, Laraaji, Talking Heads and Devo, and the no wave compilation No New York (1978). In subsequent decades, Eno has continued to record solo albums and work with artists including U2, Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones, Slowdive, Coldplay, James Blake, Kevin Shields, and Damon Albarn.

Dating back to his time as a student, Eno has also worked in other media, including sound installations and his mid-70s co-development of Oblique Strategies, a deck of cards featuring cryptic aphorisms intended to spur creative thinking. From the 1970s onwards, Eno's installations have included the sails of the Sydney Opera House in 2009 and the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in 2016. An advocate of a range of humanitarian causes, Eno writes on a variety of subjects and is a founding member of the Long Now Foundation. In 2019, Eno was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music.

1970s

Eno's professional music career began in London when he became a founder member (1971–1973) of the glam/art rock band Roxy Music. Initially Eno did not appear on stage at their live shows, but operated the mixing desk, processing the band's sound with a VCS3 synthesiser and tape recorders, and singing backing vocals. He did, however, eventually appear on stage as a performing member of the group, usually flamboyantly costumed. He quit the band on completing the promotional tour for the band's second album, For Your Pleasure, because of disagreements with lead singer Bryan Ferry and boredom with the rock star life

Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is the second solo album by English musician Brian Eno (credited simply as "Eno"), released in November 1974 by Island Records. Unlike his debut album Here Come the Warm Jets, Eno's second album used a core band of five instrumentalists--keyboardist, guitarist, bassist, drummer and percussionist--and used fewer guest musicians. Also participating was guitarist and co-writer Phil Manzanera, who had played with Eno in Roxy Music. To help guide the production of the album, Eno and Peter Schmidt developed instruction cards called Oblique Strategies to facilitate the making of the album.

Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is a loose concept album that addresses a variety of subjects that range from espionage to the Chinese Communist revolution. The album alludes to pop-song structures, but Eno's lyrics play with themes of geopolitical intrigue. It did not chart in the United Kingdom or the United States, but it got good reviews from critics. Since its release, the album has received even more critical attention, with varying opinions on its quality.

Production

The album was inspired by a series of postcards depicting a Chinese revolutionary opera titled Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. Eno described his understanding of the title as referring to "the dichotomy between the archaic and the progressive. Half Taking Tiger Mountain – that Middle Ages physical feel of storming a military position – and half (By Strategy) – that very, very 20th-century mental concept of a tactical interaction of systems."

To further explore the possibilities of the studio setting, Eno and his friend Peter Schmidt developed instruction cards, called Oblique Strategies. During the recording sessions, he would allow the cards to dictate the next unconsidered action in the recording process.Describing the words on the album as an expression of "idiot glee", Eno and Schmidt eventually expanded the Oblique Strategies set to over 100 "worthwhile dilemmas", which would be used in nearly all his future recordings and productions. Schmidt also designed the album cover, which consists of four prints from an edition of fifteen hundred of his unique lithographs, as well as Polaroids of Eno, credited on the album sleeve to Lorenz Zatecky.

Manzanera spoke positively about the recording experience. He described it as:

Eno's group on Taking Tiger Mountain included Brian Turrington and Freddie Smith of The Winkies, along with Wyatt and Manzanera. Other musicians played on the album. These included Andy Mackay of Roxy Music, along with the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an orchestra in which Eno had once played clarinet. The Portsmouth Sinfonia allowed anybody to join as long as they had no experience with the instrument they would play in the orchestra.For guest drummer Phil Collins, Eno called in a favor from Collins' group Genesis. After Eno had helped with the production of Genesis' album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Genesis front man Peter Gabriel asked how they could reciprocate. Collins played drums on "Mother Whale Eyeless"

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