No Pussyfooting is being reissued on vinyl for the first time in nearly 30 years. The album’s return to the 12" format is cut from masters approved by the artists, manufactured on 200g super-heavyweight vinyl and presented in a re-worked version of the original gatefold sleeve, using variant photos from the original photo shoot by Willie Christie. Also available on vinyl is the second Fripp & Eno release, Evening Star.
With just two albums recorded at various point over a four year period, Fripp & Eno had established a rudimentary route map of some of music’s future possibilities. That they still sound so fresh and alive with potential is testament to the strength of the duo’s original ideas.
Fripp & Eno would, individually and collectively, make significant recordings of electronic music in the coming decades, but many, many others would participate in the vast expansion of interest in electronic music that followed.
As starter points for a vast number of musicians, these albums are unparalleled, their influence only beginning to be fully understood and appreciated. Brian Eno is credited with the claim that everyone who originally bought a Velvet Underground album subsequently formed a band.
It’s no less valid to suggest that many of those involved in electronic music might not have been but for No Pussyfooting and Evening Star.
With just two albums recorded at various point over a four year period, Fripp & Eno had established a rudimentary route map of some of music’s future possibilities. That they still sound so fresh and alive with potential is testament to the strength of the duo’s original ideas.
Fripp & Eno would, individually and collectively, make significant recordings of electronic music in the coming decades, but many, many others would participate in the vast expansion of interest in electronic music that followed.
As starter points for a vast number of musicians, these albums are unparalleled, their influence only beginning to be fully understood and appreciated. Brian Eno is credited with the claim that everyone who originally bought a Velvet Underground album subsequently formed a band.
It’s no less valid to suggest that many of those involved in electronic music might not have been but for No Pussyfooting and Evening Star.
