Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
by Brian Eno
- Type: Album
- Released: November 1974
- Label: Island
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 48:12
- Community rating: 4.13/5 from 15 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On his second solo album, 'Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)', Brian Eno refined the art-pop of his debut into a more subdued, though still structurally accessible, sound. The album is historically significant for its pioneering use of Oblique Strategies, instructional cards developed with Peter Schmidt to prompt creative solutions from the core five-piece band and guest performers. This conceptual approach extends to the lyrics, which form a loose narrative of geopolitical intrigue and espionage, crafted from Eno's method of turning nonsense vocalizations into literate and often humorous wordplay.
Genres
Descriptors: experimental, avant-garde, eccentric, witty, motorik, electronic, theatrical
Tracklist
- Burning Airlines Give You So Much More (03:17)
- Back In Judy's Jungle (05:15)
- Fat Lady Of Limbourg (05:05)
- Mother Whale Eyeless (05:45)
- The Great Pretender (05:11)
- Third Uncle (04:47)
- Put A Straw Under Baby (03:25)
- The True Wheel (05:11)
- China My China (04:44)
- Taking Tiger Mountain (05:32)
Credits
- Eno - keyboards, guitar, vocals, electronics, snake guitar, treatments, clarinet
- Phil Manzanera - guitar, writing, production
- Brian Turrington - bass guitar, piano
- Freddie Smith - drums
- Robert Wyatt - percussion, backing vocals
- Andy Mackay - brass, saxophone
- Portsmouth Sinfonia - strings
- Phil Collins - additional drums, extra drums
- Polly Eltes - vocals
- The Simplistics - chorus
- Randi and the Pyramids - chorus
- Peter Schmidt - Oblique Strategies, album cover design
- Lorenz Zatecky - Polaroids
- Rhett Davies - engineer
- Robert Ash - assistant engineer
- Nicholas Pearson - special aide