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The track listing is not very clear, so let's try and clarify it a bit.
CD 1 has got:
1 The Heavenly Music Corporation (20.52)
2 Swastika Girls (18.58)
3 The Heavenly Music Corporation (reversed) (20.52)
And CD 2:
1 The Heavenly Music Corporation (half speed) (41.49)
2 Swastika Girls (reversed) (18.54)
So, does messing about with these two classic electronica tracks work? Does it add anything?
I have to say that I first heard 'No Pussyfooting' when it came out in 1973 and I have been listening to it ever since, so I do know both pieces very well.
'Swastika Girls' backwards (CD2, track 2) is very similar to Swastika Girls forwards. The differences are mainly subtle, being the reversal of the attack and decay (obviously). In one or two places, where the original attack was pronounced, it's quite scary, almost animalistic. But, overall, it doesn't really add very much.
'The Heavenly Music Corporation' at half speed (CD2, track 1) is more interesting. Again, it does get quite scary and I'm sure there are loads of sub-sonics there. Certainly, I could feel the vibrations through the floor. It becomes much more solid, like sonic icebergs, or sound volcanoes. Fripp's guitar still slides over the top, but kind of comes across as, well, elephantine. Elegantly elephantine. It definitely feels like there is an aural elephant in the room. After listening to it, the original (CD1, track 1) sounds positively skittish.
'The Heavenly Music Corporation' reversed (CD1, track 3) starts out sounding remarkably like the morphing monster from John Carpenter's 'The Thing'. But, after a while, it settles down and sounds quite affective. It reminded me a bit of Phil Manzanera's 'Lagrima', from his 'Diamond Head' album. Overall it does sound pretty much the same as played forward. But there are enough little differences to make me keep listening. It's kind of a subtle re-interpretation of the original.
So, overall, the most 'interesting' track is 'The Heavenly Music Corporation' (half speed). But it's hard work. And, honestly, I don't think any of these versions improve on the originals sufficiently to really make it worth it.
If you do not already have the original two tracks, buy this as it contains the originals plus these 're-interpretations'. If you already have the originals, well, it's up to you. I mean, they're interesting but I'm not sure how often they'll get played. The originals get five stars.
To my ears the half speed version of Heavenly Music Corporation is very heavy and dense. You will not want to play this on anything that can not cope with very deep bass sounds. The reversed Swatsika Girls version sounds very similar to the forwards version. Great stuff
in this case it was king crimson guitarist robert fripp (inventor of the famous 'frippertronics' technique) and brian eno, legendary roxy music synthesizer twiddler.
it's a majestic minimalist experiment that has little or no concern with the typical elements of rock. no rhythm section and no vocals, just a black gibson les paul guitar and some machines. it's ice-cold, eerie, sophisticated cover photo gives clues to the music within.
the entire album consists of two side-length pieces, entitled 'the heavenly music corporation' and 'swastika girls'. 't.h.m.c' is a grand, sweeping piece that shows off the stark contrast between the two artists. it's like hot and cold: the icy, relentless pulsing of eno's revox tape reels and synths, and the dense, earthy rumble of fripp's extended solos. it's stunning.
at first, 'swastika girls' seems like a bit of a let down compared to the last twenty minutes, but it's not. again, the contrast is startling. eno's synths glitter and sparkle like the sun on water, twinkling until the last second. fripp's gibson enters quietly after around seven and a half minutes, building in intensity until it sounds like the turbo-charged turbine engine we heard on the first track.
admittedly, the thought of an album with only two tracks each lasting twenty minutes and being entirely instrumental puts a lot of people off. i know that my parents and my mates hate this album, and that a lot of people dismiss this kind of music as wallpaper music, but i was stunned by it straight away. i love 'no pussyfooting' and you need only listen to a few seconds of the middle section of track one (the part where fripp almost paraphrases hendrix at woodstock '69) to know that this is anything but background.
'no pussyfooting' is apparently not the easiest cd in the world to get hold of, but it is well worth seeking it out, as is fripp & eno's second effort, 'evening star', which follows in the same formula but is a bit more concise.
five stars, without a doubt. *****
It all seems a joke. Probably is a masterpiece for toilette ambience or a sound experience in North Polo. Read more
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