Near Mint UK: '(No Pussyfooting)' by Fripp & Eno. 12" Vinyl.

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Fripp & Eno : (No Pussyfooting) 

Label: Editions EG ‎– EGED 2

Format: Vinyl LP

Country: UK 

Genre: Electronic 

Style: Ambient

Record Condition: Near Mint.

Sleeve Condition: Near Mint.

Tracklist 

A     The Heavenly Music Corporation      

B     Swastika Girls      

(No Pussyfooting) is the debut studio album by the British duo Fripp & Eno, released in 1973. (No Pussyfooting) was the first of three major collaborations between the musicians, growing out of Brian Eno's early tape delay looping experiments and Robert Fripp's "Frippertronics" electric guitar technique. 

(No Pussyfooting) was recorded in three days over the course of a year. Its release was close to that of Eno's own debut solo album Here Come the Warm Jets (1974), and it constitutes one of his early experiments in ambient music. 

Brian Eno invited Robert Fripp to his London home studio in September 1972. Eno was experimenting with a tape system developed by Terry Riley and Pauline Oliveros where two reel-to-reel tape recorders were set up side-by side. Sounds recorded on the first deck would be played back by the second deck, and then routed back into the first deck to create a long looping tape delay. Fripp played guitar over Eno's loops, while Eno selectively looped or recorded Fripp's guitar without looping it. The result is a dense, multi-layered piece of ambient music. This technique later came to be known as "Frippertronics". 

(No Pussyfooting)'s first track, which fills one side, is a 21-minute piece titled "The Heavenly Music Corporation". Fripp originally wanted the track titled "The Transcendental Music Corporation", which Eno didn't allow as he feared it would make people "think they were serious". It was recorded in two takes, first creating the background looping track, then adding an extended non-looped guitar solo over the backing track. This track features Fripp's electric guitar as the sole sound source. 

The second track "Swastika Girls", which fills the other side, was recorded almost a year after "The Heavenly Music Corporation" in August 1973 at Command Studios at 201 Piccadilly in London (where Fripp's King Crimson recorded their acclaimed Larks' Tongues in Aspic album earlier that year). The track employed the same technique as "The Heavenly Music Corporation" except Fripp played to a background electronic loop created by Eno on VCS3. Fripp and Eno took the tapes of "Swastika Girls" to British record producer George Martin's Air Studios at Oxford Circus to continue mixing and assembling the track there. The track's title refers to an image of nude women performing a Nazi salute that was ripped from a discarded pornographic film magazine found by Eno at AIR studios. Eno stuck the image on the recording console while recording the track with Fripp and it became the title of the track. 

Companies, etc. 

    Marketed By – Virgin 

    Phonographic Copyright (p) – E.G. Records Ltd. 

    Copyright (c) – E.G. Records Ltd. 

    Recorded At – Eno's Studio 

    Recorded At – Command Studios 

    Mixed At – Air Studios 

Credits 

    Design [Cover Design], Photography By – Willie Christie 

    Engineer [Mastering] – Arun Chakraverty 

    Producer – Eno*, Robert Fripp 

    Written-By – Brian Eno, Robert Fripp 

Notes 

"The Heavenly Music Corporation" 

Recorded at Eno's Studio 8.9.72 

Equipment: Gibson Les Paul, the Fripp Pedalboard, 2 modified Revox A77 tape recorders 

"Swastika Girls" 

Recorded at Command Studios 4/5.8.73 

Mixed at Air Studios 21/22.8.73 

Equipment: Gibson Les Paul, fuzzbox, VCS3 synthesizer with digital sequencer, modified Revox A77 tape recorder 

℗ 1973 EG Records Ltd 

© 1973 EG Records Ltd 

Marketed by Virgin 

Barcode and Other Identifiers 

    Barcode: 5 012985 400213 

    Matrix / Runout Side A: EGED 2 A-1U-1-1-X1   D   TOWNHOUSE 

    Matrix / Runout Side B: EGED 2 B-1U-1-1-1     D 

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