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{{Album infobox |
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Name = The Shutov Assembly |
{{more footnotes|date=May 2016}}
Type = [[CD|CD]] |
{{Infobox album
Artist = [[Brian Eno]] |
| name = The Shutov Assembly
Cover = The_Shutov_Assembly.jpg |
| type = studio
Background = Yellow |
| artist = [[Brian Eno]]
Released = [[Nov 10]], [[1992]] <small> ([[United States|US]], [[Germany|D]])</small> <br> Re-issue [[June 28]], [[2005]]|
| cover = The_Shutov_Assembly.jpg
Recorded = [[1985]] through [[1990]] |
Genre = [[Ambient|Ambient]] |
| alt =
| released = 10 November 1992 (US, [[Germany]])<br /> 28 June 2005 (re-issue)
Length = 57:04 |
| recorded = 1985–1990
Label = [[Warner_Bros]](Opal)<br>WEA 9-45010-2 (Orig. release)<br>[[Hannibal Records]]<br>HNCD1478 (re-issue)|
Producer = Brian Eno |
| studio =
| genre = [[Ambient music|Ambient]], [[dark ambient]]
Reviews = <nowiki></nowiki>
| length = 57:04
*''[[All Music Guide]]'' (3/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7o420r5ac48z link] |
| label = [[Warner Records|Warner]] (Opal)<br>[[All Saints Records]] (re-issue)
Last album = ''[[Nerve Net]]''<br />(1992) |
| producer = Brian Eno
This album = ''The Shutov Assembly'' <br /> (1992) |
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 album by [[Brian Eno]], released on [[November 10th]], [[1992]] on [[Warner Bros Records|Warner_Bros]]. It is part of Eno's Oeuvre of [[ambient music]] (a term invented by Eno, Q.V.). The album received mixed reviews, perhaps due to the rising popularity of [[ambient house]] and related forms of popular [[electronica]], which had come to be known as "ambient music" between the recording dates and the original release date. The album is now considered by many to be one of Eno's best and most enduring releases. The Ryko/Hannibal re-issue has liner notes, which were absent from the original release.
| 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==
The album is dedicated to Russian artist Sergei Shutov, and may have been composed for (or at least contrived as an audio counterpart to) Shutov's art installations from the same period.
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>}}
The track listing appears to reflect Eno's known affinity for word games: each track name is nine letters, and may be derived from locations the Shutov exhibition was shown around the world. 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]].

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 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>


==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
#"Innocente" [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
# "Eastern Cities" – 4:32
# "Empty Platform" – 4:29
# "Big Slow Arabs" – 4:39
# "Storm" – 6:29
# "Rendition" – 5:15
# "[[Prague]]" – 2:39
# "Alhondiga Variation" – 6:33


==The music==
*Note: Track 1, "Triennale", appeared as Track 9 on [[Peter Gabriel]]'s "Plus From Us", the companion/compilation album to his hit [[1993]] album "[[Us_%28Peter_Gabriel%29|Us]]."
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".<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==
* 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==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!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==
{{reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
* {{Discogs master|32538}}
* [http://www.recordstore.co.uk/brianeno/ Brian Eno Official Store]
* [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]
* [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://starling.rinet.ru/music/eno.htm#Assembly ''Starostin'' review] (Positive)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060516003833/http://www.rubli.net/_beepdiscog/HT_FILES/html/38612.htm ''Beep'' discography entry]

{{Brian Eno}}

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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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