1968: Brian Eno
Eno first came to rock in 1968. But before that, his interest in music had been encouraged at art school by Tom Phillips. Phillips introduced him to the kind of experimental musicians whose background is often neither classical nor popular, which hints at the kind of territory Obscure records have so far explored:
“My main reason for starting the venture was that I wanted to be in a position where I heard anything interesting that was going on. I wanted to be a magnet for tapes. Otherwise, it’s a case of rooting through music history to find enough interesting pieces which can change sufficiently to justify a new recording. We’re going to do a Cage percussion albums well as those pieces we’ve already done, since a lot of his percussion music hasn’t been recorded. Another interesting thing is to put older music through new recording techniques, not treating them as performances that happen to be in front of microphones, but making a record with a piece of music. [more...]
“My main reason for starting the venture was that I wanted to be in a position where I heard anything interesting that was going on. I wanted to be a magnet for tapes. Otherwise, it’s a case of rooting through music history to find enough interesting pieces which can change sufficiently to justify a new recording. We’re going to do a Cage percussion albums well as those pieces we’ve already done, since a lot of his percussion music hasn’t been recorded. Another interesting thing is to put older music through new recording techniques, not treating them as performances that happen to be in front of microphones, but making a record with a piece of music. [more...]
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