Spinner (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Spinner
Type = Album
Artist = Brian Eno


Released = 1995
Recorded = 1994 & 1995
Genre = Ambient, Instrumental
Length = 51:00
Label = Opal
Producer = Jah Wobble
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5xktk6gxqkrw (link)]
Last album = "Neroli"
(1993)
This album = Spinner
(1995)
Next album = "The Drop"
(1997) |

"Spinner" is an instrumental album by British musicians Brian Eno and Jah Wobble (aka John Wardle), released in 1995.

Track listing

# Where We Lived - 2:59
# Like Organza - 2:44
# Steam - 3:16
# Garden Recalled - 3:21
# Marine Radio - 5:04
# Unusual Balance - 5:23
# Space Diary 1 - 1:51
# Spinner - 2:54
# Transmitter And Trumpet - 8:41
# Left Where It Fell - 7:02
# (Hidden Track) - 8:42

Overview

The music on "Spinner" has its origins in the Eno-penned soundtrack to the Derek Jarman biographical 60-minute movie Glitterbug, which was released in 1994, shortly after Jarman's death.

The movie was an abstract montage composed of Super-8 excerpts from his personal video-diaries, going behind-the-scenes of many of his movies from the late sixties right up to the end of the eighties [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/videoother.html 1] .

Eno composed most of the soundtrack in his Kilburn studio, working directly onto digital stereo. The music stayed in the film; it was never released as a separate entity. Eno explains "I had intended to collect the music as a soundtrack record, but in the end a lot of it didn't make much sense without the film".

In 1995, Eno handed the master-tapes to Wobble. "He received from me a number of stereo tapes and did what he does - spanning the gamut from leaving them completely alone (such as "Garden Recalled"); playing along (such as "Like Organza"); or using them as atmospheres for entirely new compositions (such as "Steam")".

Eno did not participate in any co-production on "Spinner" at all; it was all done by Wobble. Eno said "I didn't even hear it all till it was finished. I had no input at all on that stage of it. Everything that he put on, he produced. Anything you hear looming around in the back is probably what I produced".

Wobble, interviewed on BBC Radio 3 programme Mixing It in January 1998 explained that Eno had specifically asked for his input in creating a standalone CD [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/enofaq3.html 2] .

The finished product is a fusion of ambient, instrumental rock, and Dub. Eno referred to the last track as an example of what he called "Unwelcome Jazz. Because for the last 3 or 4 years, really, I've been writing these pieces of music, which sound like some peculiar take on jazz. They don't really sound like jazz, they obviously have some kind of influence from jazz. But most of the people I played them to don't really like them - so I call it 'Unwelcome Jazz' [laughs] ".

Credits

* Compositions 1,4,7,8,11 by Brian Eno ; 2,3,5,6,9,10, by Brian Eno And Jah Wobble
* Synthesizer, treatments : Brian Eno
* Bass, drums, keyboards, atmospheres : Jah Wobble
* Keyboards, atmospheres, percussion : [http://www.Discogs.com/artist/Mark+Ferda Mark Ferda]
* Guitar : Justin Adams
* Drums : Richard Bailey & Jaki Liebezeit
* Vocals : Sussan Deihim
* Cover art : Brian Eno & David Coppenhall
* Recording & mastering : Transfermation, London

Versions

Miscellanea

* On the CD, the track "Left Where It Fell" features a 5-minute silence at the end, after which the hidden track follows.
* The "hidden track" was reworked into "Iced World", the last track on his 1997 album "The Drop".
* "Sonora Portraits 1", a compilation CD accompanying a book of essays and interviews edited by Claudio Chianura & Giampiero Bigazzi, features the track "Left Where It Fell", as well as a few selections from "Glitterbug" ("Materiali Sonori", MASO CD 90110, 1999) [http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,873800,00.html 3] .
* The tracks "Spinner" and "Left Where It Fell" appear in Jah Wobble's 2004 anthology "I Could Have Been A Contender"' [http://www.discogs.com/release/480074 4] .

External links

* [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/wire95.html#Spinner Interview; "The Wire", Issue 139, Sep 1995]
* [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/futmus95.html#Spinner Profile; "Future Music", Issue 38, Dec 1995]
* [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/me_intr4.html#last Interview; "jazzthetik" magazine, Nov/Dec 1996]
* [http://www.rubli.net/_beepdiscog/HT_FILES/html/65468.htm "Beep" discography entry]
* [http://www.connollyco.com/discography/brian_eno/spinner.html "ConnolyCo" discography entry]
* "Discogs.com" entries : [http://www.discogs.com/release/115725 5] , [http://www.discogs.com/release/146060 6] , [http://www.discogs.com/release/783983 7] .
* [http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=8082 "ProgArchives" review] Rating|4|5
* [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/brianeno/albums/album/195947/review/5945660/spinner "Rolling Stone" review] .
* [http://www.allsaintsrecords.com/hncd_1495.htm "All Saints" entry] .
* [http://www.30hertzrecords.com/ Jah Wobble's homepage]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109909/ "Glitterbug" IMDB entry]
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