Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

Brian Eno wanted to move past the sound of the rock guitar, and Taking Tiger Mountain would prove to be his last record that relied on them. The record is full of telling stylistic diversions and flourishes of less conventional instrumentation, such as the typewriters used for additional percussion in “China My China”, in addition to Eno’s usual buzzing and chirping synth sounds.

Taking Tiger Mountain's creative success assured that Brian Eno had taken rock ‘n’ roll to its outer limits, and although he followed the album with two more pop/rock records - Another Green World & Before & After Science - around half of each concentrates on his forays into ethnic textures and atmospheric mood pieces.

His subsequent “invention” of the ambient genre and a staggeringly successful career as a studio producer for other artists have assumed the bulk of his acclaim over the past 30 years, as they almost should have; still, his firsthand contributions to rock, as achievements that cannot be overstated, have been undervalued for too long. The remastered reissue of Taking Tiger Mountain - and his other early albums, will hopefully remedy this for a new generation of music lovers.

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Tracklist:
A1        Burning Airlines Give You So Much More    3:12
A2        Back In Judy's Jungle    5:14
A3        The Fat Lady Of Limbourg    4:56
A4        Mother Whale Eyeless    5:46
A5        The Great Pretender    5:10
B1        Third Uncle    4:48
B2        Put A Straw Under Baby    3:23
B3        The True Wheel    5:03
B4        China My China    4:52
B5        Taking Tiger Mountain    5:26