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In Reply to: Actually, I was mostly interested in talking about "Lucky Leif and the Longships." posted by J.R. on August 1, 2009 at 05:47:43:
Can you elaborate more on "Lucky Leif?"
I hear you. In my opinion, = some Ambient, and some of Fripp Eno, - specifically, walks the razor's edge between being pretentious and uncompelling; and on the other hand, - it can realize its intention, - which is background music that can be ignored and then re-focused on at various points and be interesting.
I found sometimes that Robert Fripp's little JG Ballard-isms, and his "repetition is a form of change" and his "tail" pretentious, '80s, armchair philosophy, - rather tiresome. Eno has "aged" a lot better than Fripp, IMO.
It is my belief/understanding that it is a genre, and Eno kicked off something huge. Ambient has really evolved and "changed" from Wyndom Hill, (although, they might not consider themselves Eno-directed Ambient), into stuff like Just Music, (Leo Abraham, {currently an Eno collaborater}, and Jon Hopkins; to folks like Aaphex Twin. Then there's folks like Eric Wollo, Maneesh de Moor, Al Gromer Kahn, etc.
The Harold Budd, and Jon Hassell stuff is amazing, IMO. And started to push Ambient and influence a lot of people that are still great and doing interesting stuff, -IMO. Jon Hassell is still doing great work, combining Indian meditative music with ambient; and beyond.
""I'm an opinionated boy; I have an
opinion on everything, but at least I change my opinions quite often,
especially when I am wrong or foolish""
For what it's worth, - I think that is awesome, and I think that we all are and should be opinionated when it comes to art. It's all art, and since there's no agreed upon definition for art, - it all comes down to what value any one, unique, individual, places on it. One can say that they think Ornette Coleman or Brittany Spears is good or bad: and they will be "right." Because ultimately, they are both the same in a definition-less paradigm.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
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