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Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is a loose concept album that references themes of geopolitical intrigue ranging from espionage to the Chinese Communist Revolution. It did not chart in the United Kingdom or the United States, but received positive reviews from critics. Since its release, the album has received even more critical ...
"Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)" poursuit, sans surprises, le travail entamé sur "Here Come The Warmjets". Le personnel est remanié et si les mêmes têtes ne pointent pas le bout de leur nez (excepté Phil Manzanera), celles qui viennent les remplacer ont, elles aussi, de quoi faire tourner les têtes ; à commencer par Phil Collins, mais aussi Robert Wyatt.
Tiger Mountain is a loose concept album with topics ranging from espionage to the Chinese Communist Revolution. Its music is full of upbeat, bouncy songs, but is wrapped with dark lyrical...
1 nov. 2023 · November 1, 2023. By. Oregano Rathbone. Cover: Courtesy of Island Records. A mere 10 months after his solo debut, Here Come The Warm Jets, Brian Eno consolidated his standing as one of rock’s least...
- Oregano Rathbone
- 6 min
27 avr. 2019 · Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is, in one sense, an extension of the perverse pop music revealed on Here Come The Warm Jets. But where Jets was varied in style and execution, Tiger focuses on the arrangements of Eno and Phil Manzanera. As a result of a shared, unified vision, the songs inhabit the same strange, exotic world ...
The full, singular sound of Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) was a natural evolution for Eno in many ways. On his second album, he continued the drone-y, dreamlike atmosphere he had established on Warm Jets , yet the songs on Tiger Mountain were more tightly compact and immediately accessible.
Brian Eno's second album, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) sheds much of the punk attributes that the previous album, Here Come The Warm Jets had, but retains much of the same feeling. The band is fairly static on this one, and mostly features the guitars of Phil Manzanera , giving this one a sound similar to 801 .
