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Name = The Shutov Assembly |
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Type = [[Album]] |
{{Infobox album
Artist = [[Brian Eno]] |
Cover = The_Shutov_Assembly.jpg |
| name = The Shutov Assembly
| type = studio
Released = [[Nov 10]], 1992 <small> ([[United States|US]], [[Germany|D]])</small> <br> Re-issue June 28, 2005|
| artist = [[Brian Eno]]
Recorded = 1985 through 1990 |
| cover = The_Shutov_Assembly.jpg
Genre = [[Ambient music|Ambient]], [[dark ambient]] |
Length = 57:04 |
| alt =
Label = [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner]] (Opal)<br>[[Hannibal Records|Hannibal]] (re-issue)|
| released = 10 November 1992 (US, [[Germany]])<br /> 28 June 2005 (re-issue)
Producer = Brian Eno |
| recorded = 1985–1990
Reviews =
| studio =
| genre = [[Ambient music|Ambient]], [[dark ambient]]
*[[Allmusic]] {{rating|3|5}} [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r72637|pure_url=yes}} link] |
| length = 57:04
Last album = ''[[Nerve Net (album)|Nerve Net]]''<br />(1992) |
| label = [[Warner Records|Warner]] (Opal)<br>[[All Saints Records]] (re-issue)
This album = '''The Shutov Assembly''' <br /> (1992) |
| producer = Brian Eno
Next album = ''[[Neroli (album)|Neroli]]''<br />(1993) | }}
| prev_title = [[Nerve Net (album)|Nerve Net]]
| prev_year = 1992
| next_title = [[Neroli (album)|Neroli]]
| next_year = 1993
}}


{{Album ratings
'''''The Shutov Assembly''''' is an [[Ambient music|ambient]] album by [[United Kingdom|British]] musician [[Brian Eno]], released on November 10, 1992 on [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner]].
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r72637|pure_url=yes}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[Drowned in Sound]]
| rev2Score = 7/10<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/18549/reviews/4148511 |title=Album Review: Brian Eno – the Shutov Assembly, Nerve Net, Neroli, the Drop (Expanded editions) / Releases / Releases // Drowned in Sound |access-date=11 March 2015 |archive-date=10 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410150447/http://www.drownedinsound.com/releases/18549/reviews/4148511 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev3score = 5.8/10<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20032-brian-eno-nerve-netthe-shutov-assemblynerolithe-drop/|title = Brian Eno: Nerve Net/The Shutov Assembly/Neroli/The Drop|website = Pitchfork}}</ref>
| rev4 = [[PopMatters]]
| rev4Score = 9/10<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/188472-brian-eno-nerve-net-shutov-assembly-neroli-the-drop-reissues/|title = 188472-brian-eno-nerve-net-shutov-assembly-neroli-the-drop-reissues, PopMatters|date = 26 January 2021}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev5Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>Q (12/92, p. 121) – 3 Stars – Good – "... [an] effortlessly beautiful Enopainting..."</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Tom Hull – on the Web]]''
| rev6score = B−<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=brian+eno|title=Grade List: Brian Eno|website=[[Tom Hull – on the Web]]|first=Tom|last=Hull|date=12 November 2023|access-date=12 November 2023}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev7Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>Uncut (p. 166) – 3 stars out of 5 – "[I]t's a masterpiece of cold, looming evocations of dusk and deep distance."</ref>
}}
'''''The Shutov Assembly''''' is the twelfth solo studio album by [[Brian Eno]], released on 10 November 1992 on Opal via [[Warner Bros. Records]]. One of Eno's [[ambient music|ambient]] albums, it was reissued in 2014 with a second disc with bonus tracks. It is considered the follow-up to ''[[Nerve Net]]'', which was released that same year.


==Overview==
==Overview==
The album is dedicated to Russian artist [[Sergei Shutov]], and was created as an assembly of tracks for him, as he had mentioned to Eno the difficulty he had of getting Eno's music in the then-communist Russia.
The album is dedicated to Russian artist [[Sergei Shutov]], and was created as an assembly of tracks for him, as he had mentioned to Eno the difficulty he had of getting Eno's music in the then-communist Russia.


{{cquote|Shutov is a Russian painter who I know in Moscow, and a while ago he gave me a painting as a present. He uses my music in his studio a lot; he’s got a little blaster there, and plays my music as he’s working. So I thought I’d put together a tape for him of unreleased pieces from the past few years. I kept a copy of the tape, and when I started playing it I started to enjoy it and see a thread running through the pieces that I hadn’t really seen before. They’d never been put together before, you see.<ref>[http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/sos90b.html Sound On Sound: Brian Eno: Breaking the silence<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>}}
{{cquote|Shutov is a Russian painter who I know in Moscow, and a while ago he gave me a painting as a present. He uses my music in his studio a lot; he's got a little blaster there, and plays my music as he's working. So I thought I’d put together a tape for him of unreleased pieces from the past few years. I kept a copy of the tape, and when I started playing it I started to enjoy it and see a thread running through the pieces that I hadn't really seen before. They’d never been put together before, you see.<ref>[http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/sos90b.html Sound On Sound: Brian Eno: Breaking the silence<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>}}


On the rear cover of the CD, the ten tracks of nine letters are arranged in a grid as seen in a [[word search]] [[puzzle]].
The track listing appears to reflect Eno's known affinity for word games, yet there is a purely pragmatic reason for why they are so titled.... [http://www.enoland.suburbanambient.com/shutov.htm 2]
* [[Triennale di Milano|Triennale]] – Milan festival where Eno had an installation in 1985.
* [[Alhóndiga de Granaditas|Alhondiga]] – Spanish installation in 1988.
* Markgraph – German exhibition music & light company that helps with installations.
* [[Lanzarote]] – Canary Islands, host to a yearly music festival. Originally released as "Glint (East of Woodbridge)" on flexi disc in ARTFORUM Magazine, 1986.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BrianEnoHisMusicAndTheVerticalColorOfSound/Tamm_Eric_Brian_Eno_His_Music_and_the_Vertical_Color_of_Sound_djvu.txt Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound, Eric Tamm, p. 202]</ref>
* [[San Francisco|Francisco]] – Installation at the ''[[Exploratorium]]'' in 1988.
* Riverside – ''[[Riverside Studios]]'' in London was the site of a 1986 installation.
* Innocenti – 1987 [[Florence]] installation (In Harmonic Space).
* [[Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam|Stedelijk]] – Amsterdam museum with the video installation of ''[[Thursday Afternoon#DVD|Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan]]''.
* [[Ikebukuro]] – Tokyo installation in 1989.
* [[Cavallino]] – Venice gallery with 1985 installation


The album's [[Rykodisc]] entry describes it as "a journey through Eno's sumptuous audio-visual installations from around the world, each track touching down on a particular event and atmosphere."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rykodisc.com/catalog/dump/rykoalbums_1514.asp |title=Rykodisc Catalog – the Shutov Assembly – Brian Eno |accessdate=2007-02-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428080409/http://www.rykodisc.com/Catalog/dump/rykoalbums_1514.asp |archivedate=28 April 2007 }}</ref>
* Triennale - Milan festival where Eno had an installation in 1985.
* Alhondiga - Spanish installation in 1988.
* Markgraph - German exhibition music & light company that helps with installations.
* Lanzarote - Canary Islands, host to a yearly music festival.
* Francisco - Installation at the ''Exploratorium'' in 1988.
* Riverside - ''Riverside Studios'' in London was the site of a 1986 installation.
* Innocenti - 1987 Florence installation (In Harmonic Space).
* Stedelijk - Amsterdam museum with the video installation of ''[[Thursday Afternoon#DVD|Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan]]''.
* Ikebukuro - Tokyo installation in 1989.
* Cavallino - Venice gallery with 1985 installation

Or, as the album's Rykodisc entry says "''The Shutov Assembly is a journey through Eno’s sumptuous audio-visual installations from around the world, each track touching down on a particular event and atmosphere''" [http://www.rykodisc.com/catalog/dump/rykoalbums_1514.asp 3].

On the rear cover of the CD, the ten tracks of nine letters are arranged in a grid as seen in a [[word search]] [[puzzle]].


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
#"Triennale" – 4:02
#"[[Triennale di Milano|Triennale]]" – 4:02
#"Alhondiga" – 3:16
#"[[Alhóndiga de Granaditas|Alhondiga]]" – 3:16
#"Markgraph" – 3:39
#"Markgraph" – 3:39
#"Lanzarote" – 8:37
#"[[Lanzarote]]" – 8:37
#"Francisco" – 4:44
#"[[San Francisco|Francisco]]" – 4:44
#"Riverside" – 3:50
#"[[Riverside Studios|Riverside]]" – 3:50
#"Innocenti" – 4:19
#"Innocenti" – 4:19
#"Stedelijk" – 5:26
#"[[Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam|Stedelijk]]" – 5:26
#"Ikebukuro" – 16:05
#"[[Ikebukuro]]" – 16:05
#"Cavallino" – 3:06
#"[[Cavallino]]" – 3:06


; 2014 reissue's bonus disc
==The music==
# "Eastern Cities" – 4:32
Talking to [[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] magazine in 1998, Brian explained that The Shutov Assembly tracks "''...were originally proposals for orchestral pieces; what I wanted to do was make them, using my normal tricks and devices, and then present them to an orchestra and ask them to try and copy them accurately - so if this sound goes "dnnngeeeee", you might need to have a damped tubular bell and a violin player working together to make that one sound. I thought it would be an interesting way to use an orchestra, to force it to use its instruments in a different way''" [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/1999news.html 4].
# "Empty Platform" – 4:29
# "Big Slow Arabs" – 4:39
# "Storm" – 6:29
# "Rendition" – 5:15
# "[[Prague]]" – 2:39
# "Alhondiga Variation" – 6:33


==The music==
Indeed, the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra (Metropole Orkest) played two performances of the music in June 1999 at the Holland Festival, which ran from June 5th - 26th in Amsterdam, the first of which was broadcast live on Dutch radio.
Talking to [[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] magazine in 1998, Eno explained that The Shutov Assembly tracks were originally proposals for orchestral pieces. The Netherlands [[Metropole Orkest]] played two performances of the music in June 1999, orchestrated by [[Steve Gray (musician)|Steve Gray]], at the Holland Festival, which ran from 5 to 26 June in Amsterdam, the first of which was broadcast live on Dutch radio.


Though the music can certainly be classified amongst his other ambient works, most of the compositions have a certain "dark" feel to them. In an interview, Eno said "''it's the association with danger that I didn't use to like, and it's exactly that, what I do like now .... THE SHUTOV ASSEMBLY is sort of the out-of-town version of it, the outside-the-city-limits version of danger''" [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/me_intr3.html#q2 5].
Though the music can certainly be classified amongst his other ambient works, most of the compositions have a certain "dark" feel to them. In an interview, Eno said "it's the association with danger that I didn't use to like, and it's exactly that, what I do like now".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/me_intr3.html#q2|title=Brian Eno interviewed by Michael Engelbrecht}}</ref>


==Credits==
==Credits==
* Brian Eno : all instruments
* Brian Eno – all instruments
* Recording location : The Wilderness Studio, Woodbridge, UK
* Recorded at The Wilderness Studio, Woodbridge, UK
* Mastered By Tony Cousins at the Townhouse, London
* Mastering by Tony Cousins at the Townhouse, London
* The cover art is an image from the video painting "''Egypt''" by Eno & Greg Jakobek.
* The cover art is an image from the video painting ''Egypt'' by Eno and Greg Jakobek.


==Versions==
==Versions==
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==Miscellanea==
{{trivia|date=January 2009}}
* ''Terra Nova'', a quarterly journal, published a special issue that included a 74-minute CD of music from nature, imitating nature or creating soundscapes (''Nature and Culture -- Music From Nature'', MIT Press; Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 1997). Brian's 6-minute contribution was "Ikebukoro/Madrid/4", a remix of "Ikebukoro" from The Shutov Assembly.
* Track 1, ''Triennale'', appeared as Track 9 on [[Peter Gabriel]]'s ''Plus from Us'', the companion/compilation album to his hit 1993 album ''[[Us (Peter Gabriel album)|Us]]''.
* Track 4, ''Lanzarote'', was originally released as ''Glint (East of Woodbridge)'', a tear-out disc from ''[[Artforum]]'' magazine.
* Track 9, ''Ikebukuro'', was part of the basis of his ''Installation'' albums ''[[Music for Civic Recovery Centre]]'', 2000, and ''[[Compact Forest Proposal]]'', 2001.
* The Ryko/Hannibal re-issue has liner notes, which were absent from the original release.
* A 4-track tape Eno was using for a lecture series, before the release of the album was described by him as being "''works in progress''"; the Shutov Assembly working tapes [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/me_intr3.html#q2 6] , [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/enofaqm.html 7]. The tracks were ''Ripples In Time'', ''Her Enchanting Coldness'', ''Planet Dawn'', and ''Juju Space Jazz''.
* ''[[Textures (album)|Textures]]'', a rare 1989 album by Eno, [[Roger Eno]] & [[Daniel Lanois]] intended for use by TV & film production companies (Standard Music Library ESL 003 CD) appear in ''The Shutov Assembly'' under different names and slightly different mixes. [http://www.enoland.suburbanambient.com/textures.htm These are]:
** The Water Garden = Cavallino
** Shaded Water = Alhondiga
** Suspicions = Lanzarote
** Mirage = Triennale
** Landscape with Haze = Riverside
** Suspended Motion = Markgraph
** The Wild = Stedelijk


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
* {{Discogs master|32538}}
* [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/me_intr3.html#q2 Interview with Michael Engelbrecht, Autumn 1990]
* [http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/brian-eno/7300 Interview with Michael Engelbrecht, October 1990]
* [http://www.enoland.suburbanambient.com/shutov.htm ''Eno Land'' entry]
* [http://www.enoland.suburbanambient.com/shutov.htm ''Eno Land'' entry]
* [http://www.omroep.nl/nps/radio/supplement/99/0614/welcome.html NPS-VPRO Supplement page (in Dutch)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929130613/http://www.omroep.nl/nps/radio/supplement/99/0614/welcome.html NPS-VPRO Supplement page (in Dutch)]
* [http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=8081 ''ProgArchives'' review] {{rating|4|5}}
* [http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=8081 ''ProgArchives'' review] {{rating|4|5}}
* [http://starling.rinet.ru/music/eno.htm#Assembly ''Starostin'' review] (Positive)
* [http://starling.rinet.ru/music/eno.htm#Assembly ''Starostin'' review] (Positive)
* [http://www.rubli.net/_beepdiscog/HT_FILES/html/38612.htm ''Beep'' discography entry]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060516003833/http://www.rubli.net/_beepdiscog/HT_FILES/html/38612.htm ''Beep'' discography entry]
* ''Discogs.com'' entries : [http://www.discogs.com/release/76693 Opal] , [http://www.discogs.com/release/758543 Rykodisc/All Saints reissue]


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Latest revision as of 00:25, 19 October 2024

The Shutov Assembly
Studio album by
Brian Eno
Released10 November 1992 (US, Germany)
28 June 2005 (re-issue)
Recorded1985–1990
GenreAmbient, dark ambient
Length57:04
LabelWarner (Opal)
All Saints Records (re-issue)
ProducerBrian Eno
Brian Eno chronology
Nerve Net
(1992) 		The Shutov Assembly
(1992) 		Neroli
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Drowned in Sound7/10[2]
Pitchfork5.8/10[3]
PopMatters9/10[4]
Q[5]
Tom Hull – on the WebB−[6]
Uncut[7]

The Shutov Assembly is the twelfth solo studio album by Brian Eno, released on 10 November 1992 on Opal via Warner Bros. Records. One of Eno's ambient albums, it was reissued in 2014 with a second disc with bonus tracks. It is considered the follow-up to Nerve Net, which was released that same year.

Overview

[edit]

The album is dedicated to Russian artist Sergei Shutov, and was created as an assembly of tracks for him, as he had mentioned to Eno the difficulty he had of getting Eno's music in the then-communist Russia.

Shutov is a Russian painter who I know in Moscow, and a while ago he gave me a painting as a present. He uses my music in his studio a lot; he's got a little blaster there, and plays my music as he's working. So I thought I’d put together a tape for him of unreleased pieces from the past few years. I kept a copy of the tape, and when I started playing it I started to enjoy it and see a thread running through the pieces that I hadn't really seen before. They’d never been put together before, you see.[8]

On the rear cover of the CD, the ten tracks of nine letters are arranged in a grid as seen in a word search puzzle.

  • Triennale – Milan festival where Eno had an installation in 1985.
  • Alhondiga – Spanish installation in 1988.
  • Markgraph – German exhibition music & light company that helps with installations.
  • Lanzarote – Canary Islands, host to a yearly music festival. Originally released as "Glint (East of Woodbridge)" on flexi disc in ARTFORUM Magazine, 1986.[9]
  • Francisco – Installation at the Exploratorium in 1988.
  • Riverside – Riverside Studios in London was the site of a 1986 installation.
  • Innocenti – 1987 Florence installation (In Harmonic Space).
  • Stedelijk – Amsterdam museum with the video installation of Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan.
  • Ikebukuro – Tokyo installation in 1989.
  • Cavallino – Venice gallery with 1985 installation

The album's Rykodisc entry describes it as "a journey through Eno's sumptuous audio-visual installations from around the world, each track touching down on a particular event and atmosphere."[10]

Track listing

[edit]
  1. "Triennale" – 4:02
  2. "Alhondiga" – 3:16
  3. "Markgraph" – 3:39
  4. "Lanzarote" – 8:37
  5. "Francisco" – 4:44
  6. "Riverside" – 3:50
  7. "Innocenti" – 4:19
  8. "Stedelijk" – 5:26
  9. "Ikebukuro" – 16:05
  10. "Cavallino" – 3:06
2014 reissue's bonus disc
  1. "Eastern Cities" – 4:32
  2. "Empty Platform" – 4:29
  3. "Big Slow Arabs" – 4:39
  4. "Storm" – 6:29
  5. "Rendition" – 5:15
  6. "Prague" – 2:39
  7. "Alhondiga Variation" – 6:33

The music

[edit]

Talking to Mojo magazine in 1998, Eno explained that The Shutov Assembly tracks were originally proposals for orchestral pieces. The Netherlands Metropole Orkest played two performances of the music in June 1999, orchestrated by Steve Gray, at the Holland Festival, which ran from 5 to 26 June in Amsterdam, the first of which was broadcast live on Dutch radio.

Though the music can certainly be classified amongst his other ambient works, most of the compositions have a certain "dark" feel to them. In an interview, Eno said "it's the association with danger that I didn't use to like, and it's exactly that, what I do like now".[11]

Credits

[edit]
  • Brian Eno – all instruments
  • Recorded at The Wilderness Studio, Woodbridge, UK
  • Mastering by Tony Cousins at the Townhouse, London
  • The cover art is an image from the video painting Egypt by Eno and Greg Jakobek.

Versions

[edit]
Country Label Cat. No. Media Release Date
US Opal/Warner Bros 9-45010-2 CD 1992
US Rykodisc/All Saints 42/HNCD 1478 CD 2004
US Hannibal 1478 CD 2005

References

[edit]
  1. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r72637
  2. ^ "Album Review: Brian Eno – the Shutov Assembly, Nerve Net, Neroli, the Drop (Expanded editions) / Releases / Releases // Drowned in Sound". Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Brian Eno: Nerve Net/The Shutov Assembly/Neroli/The Drop". Pitchfork.
  4. ^ "188472-brian-eno-nerve-net-shutov-assembly-neroli-the-drop-reissues, PopMatters". 26 January 2021.
  5. ^ Q (12/92, p. 121) – 3 Stars – Good – "... [an] effortlessly beautiful Enopainting..."
  6. ^ Hull, Tom (12 November 2023). "Grade List: Brian Eno". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  7. ^ Uncut (p. 166) – 3 stars out of 5 – "[I]t's a masterpiece of cold, looming evocations of dusk and deep distance."
  8. ^ Sound On Sound: Brian Eno: Breaking the silence
  9. ^ Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound, Eric Tamm, p. 202
  10. ^ "Rykodisc Catalog – the Shutov Assembly – Brian Eno". Archived from the original on 28 April 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2007.
  11. ^ "Brian Eno interviewed by Michael Engelbrecht".
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