Brian Eno is MORE DARK THAN SHARK

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Rip It Up SEPTEMBER 1986 - by Chad Taylor

BRIAN ENO: MORE BLANK THAN FRANK

A compilation album from Eno and another high-art-in-the-marketplace project from EG; the album is packages and released to coincide with the publication of Russell Mill's illustrations and collaborations with Eno, like-titled More Dark Than Shark, a very beautiful and engaging book indeed (available from Faber & Faber). One track from his first album, two from his second and so on, carefully chosen to illustrate Eno's interests in ambient music (since Discreet Music) and also in the melancholic; treat your mum to Taking Tiger Mountain and the charming On Some Faraway Beach. Like all compilations, it's all too inadequate a treatment of his prolific output; more of a friendly launching to Mills' book than anything else.