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It also confirms my suspicion that Eno was always at his ambient best when collaborating with someone: here, he shares the co-authorship with Rhett Davies and Robert Wyatt the latter of Soft Machine fame. Taking Tiger Mountain was an absolutely revolutionary record for Eno, maybe even more so than all of his later ventures into sheer atmospherics and ambience and, by the way, nearly every record that the man released in between 1973-78 was revolutionary in its own way. Of course, deep inside them is still present the cold German soul, heh heh. Flattened sevenths and prominent fifths apart, this is basically Thursday Afternoon Vol. So what was I talking about. Great - this is probably the event Brian Eno had been waiting for all his life. And who knows, maybe God himself will descend to you from the sky and provide you with a revelation that not even St John has windows batch sleep 10 seconds of. All of them and more. And then - surprise, surprise - two extremely short tracks, just three minutes long each. Here, though, it sounds different: all the guitars are cleverly encoded, and they frequently use A77 tape recorders to distort and twist the sound even further. But German or not, they did get interested in Eno and Eno got interested in them, and it was a good thing, too: while the German electronic movement had quite a few tricks to teach Brian and broaden his musical horizons, Brian, in return, was able to breathe life and hope into the cold coffins of these robotic electronic sounds. In fact, once I set my expectations to a suitable level, I found that I liked it on the very first listen, and not only liked it, but felt particularly intrigued about it. The fifth of the scale is prominent. To fully appreciate it, I advise you take a vacation somewhere high up in the mountains with a view of the sea yeah, Scotland or some parts of South Crimea will do nicelybring along your tape recorder and blast this show-stopper at full volume. There is just one little problem, though. This record hardly needs to be listened to more than once. Think of yer own, then. Marred a little by some uninspired ambient excursions.Replete with chirping of birds, too. In fact, once I set my expectations to a suitable level, I found that I liked it on the very first listen, and not only liked it, but felt particularly intrigued about it. Best song: both are terrific. Oof, at least with this album nobody is going to accuse these slee; guys of being conservative. And so ends our pretty little twenty-minute suite.And then - surprise, surprise - two extremely short tracks, just three minutes long each. In this particular case - Peter Gabriel.