Swimming

Roger Eno | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 1996)
• Original Release Date: September 24, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Gyroscope
• ASIN: B0000035DS
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #538,623 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Paddington Frisk

2. The Whole Wide World

3. The Slow River

4. In Water

5. Amukidi

6. Swimming

7. Over the Hills

8. The Boatman

9. Little Things Left Behind

10. Hewendaway

11. Aryis

12. Where the Road Leads to Nowhere

13. How You Shone

14. The Parting Glass

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Roger Eno Expands Romantic Era From English Base, October 8, 1999

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Larry Bottorff ([e-mail]) (Moundridge, Kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Swimming (Audio CD)

If we read nineteenth-century lit and then listen to its music, we come away confused by the disparity. While the literature hovered squarely over Northwest Europe's very own melancholy and mystery, damp and dark, the music might just as well flit away into sugar and sweetness--listen to Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" for a perfect example of the schizophrenia. Roger Eno's music, however, is a continuance of the Romantic or Victorian Era's literature. Swimming is all but devoid of Eno's typical classical ensemble instrumentation, but the deep, romantic, NWEuro mood is present in droves. Swimming, as with all of Eno's output, is decisively mature emotionally, obviously British, humble, and peaceful. Eno is touching with Swimming, but with emotion 100% sugar-free. It's such a shame that you're always pointed to the New Age Ninnies section when you ask for Roger Eno. . . .