These are two albums I put on when I want to be able to concentrate on something else and need some kind of background noise...also, combined, they are probably 4 of my favorite songs (each album has just 2 tracks). No Pussyfooting was recorded by Brian Eno (on the cusp of quitting Roxy Music and just months before his first "proper" solo release Here Come the Warm Jets) and King Crimson's resident "genius guitarist" Robert Fripp over the course of three days. Eno supplied manipulated tape loops of synthesizers etc. and Fripp just kind of noodles over it on his guitar. It should be awful but it's really not...Eno's loops prefigure most of his ambient work that would come later and sound somewhere between Terry Riley and Steve Reich, and there are some of Fripp's (using his own custom built "Frippertronics...no joke, look em up) mightiest riffs on here. The album gets (slight) critical acclaim for "Heavenly Music Corporation" but I prefer "Swastika Girls" aside from its 70s "shocker!" name. Which one will you like better? YOU CHOOSE. (It also has an awesome cover).
The Boredoms are/were a Japanese avant/noise/psychedelic group that seemed to move further and further away from the noise punk thing and into Frank Zappa/Alice Coltrane/Santana/Tribal- Jazz territory as their career progressed. This album is indicative of that, five years or so after their last proper full length,"Vision Creation Newsun" which, in my opinion, is their best. "Seadrum" is probably closest to the sound on that album, with "House of Sun" veering more towards the jazzy-psychadelic sitar 60s thing. Neither of these albums, in description, may sound like anything potentially listenable to while attempting focus on other things, but whats interesting to me about them is that, given all their avant-garde sensibilities and experimentation and predecessors that were admittedly "difficult listening" both albums are downright pleasant to listen to, if not, at times, even calming.
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