Eno on Ibiza, 1977

The day before yesterday Brian gave his last lecture on school of songs. Here is one story he told, and I‘ve never heard it before. And after that, listen to the song he has been hunting down fourteen years. Not long ago, WeWantSounds reissued the album containing that track. By the way, it was 1977 when he heard the song for the first time, a time where „global music“ was not yet somthing for everyday. The records that were mirroring music from far away places were not so many … after Tom Scott’s Music For Zen Meditation, after Don Cherry’s Brown Rice, after Yusef Lateef‘s Eastern Sounds, all reflecting north african, arabic style musics or sounds from the far east, it took a time til, at the end of the 70‘s, at the begnning of the 80‘s that thing called „world music“ entered Western cinsciousness, and the market became, after quite some time, a big one: from originals to creative fusion, and pure mainstream on the other end of the spectrum.

The Story

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