Spinner [Import]

Brian Eno, Jah Wobble | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 25, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: United States Dist
• ASIN: B000024J43
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #706,259 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Where We Lived

2. Like Organza

3. Steam

4. Garden Recalled

5. Marine Radio

6. Unusual Balance

7. Space Diary 1

8. Spinner

9. Transmitter and Trumpet

10. Left Where It Fell

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A most interesting mixture, April 4, 2000

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DAC Crowell - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spinner (Audio CD)

Here's the deal: Brian Eno does soundtrack bits for one of British filmmaker Derek Jarman's final productions, "Glitterbug". Then Eno turns over said tracks to dub/world-meister Jah Wobble for further tinkering. Result: amazing! This is one of those instances where the mysterious and elusive 'third mind' that so many have spoken of in quality collaborative work has come out in force and created something that's perhaps a bit beyond the scope of either of the two participants, taken alone. The 'action' here keeps moving, in a very cinematic manner, throughout the tracks that make up this release, and you get the feeling of being drawn along in a complex musical journey through spaces that seem at once familiar and suddenly very alien. Signposts do appear: a dub bassline here, a North African snippet there, and tinges of ambience and senses of drama that seem to even hearken back to Eno circa "Another Green World" color the skies of this strange landscape. Of the recent Eno works, this and "The Shutov Assembly" are the definite peaks, and for my money, this is Eno at perhaps his best form since "AGW" or his collaborative albums with Cluster, David Byrne, or Jon Hassell. An excellent argument piece for those who think Eno's 'lost it' in all of his attentions to pop production during the 1980s and 90s.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Scary Stuff, May 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Spinner (Audio CD)

Don't play this album thinking it's some of that cool ambient stuff you've heard about that you can chill or fall asleep to. It's creepy, high-tension sound that doesn't ask nicely for your attention, instead seducing you away from your concerns with dark, foreboding tones and slow, rising musical phrasing. Eno's mastery and Wobble's attitude really shine through.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hot album!, January 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Spinner (Audio CD)

I got this CD for Christmas a few years back, was living in London at the time. It was of course quite cold. I listened to it and thought it was a reasonable album - 3 or 4 star job. Nothing spectacular, just a nice album to be played occassionally. Then I discovered something odd. I was playing it on a very, very hot day and it suddenly fit so much better - it just seems to capture the mood of a slow, hot day, or even better a slow hot night. The hotter and more sultry it gets, the more I like listening to this album. I know it sounds odd, and I don't have any other albums that are "weather dependent", but there you go...