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Drawn From Life

Drawn From Life

a review by Cormac of
release format Drawn From Life by Brian Eno, J. Peter Schwalm (CD Album)

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Eno first performed with J. Peter Schwalm (and Holger Czukay of Can) at the opening of Eno's installation Future Light-Lounge Proposal in Bonn. That was three years ago and the result of their collaboration is Drawn From Life. Recorded in Eno’s studio in West London and Schwalm’s studio in Frankfurt Drawn From Life features contributions from Laurie Anderson, Neil Catchpole and an eavesdrop upon the conversational meanerdings of Eno's two daughters, Irial and Darla.

Eno, whose work now spans over thirty years, we assume needs no introduction. Schwalm's background however is considerably less documented.
J. Peter Schwalm is a young German musician trained as a drummer and composer. His influences are a mixture between fusion and in particular the music of Miles Davis. Normal enough criteria for an Eno collaborator except, like Howie B, this guy's also a club DJ. Eno recently said of him, 'Sometimes you hear something and think: "Now this is how the modern world feels to me". Peter's music is like that, capturing excitement and speed and ambiguity and even wistfulness and melancholy... a complex emotional palette which feels to me like real life.' Fair enough.

So what's the music like? Where 'The Drop' is a 'jazz recording from outer space', Drawn From Life is very much an earthling, taking most of it's influences from ambient hip-hop, 20th century classical music and vocal collage with the haunting strains of Catchpole's eastern string arrangements. But altogether it is absolutely beautiful. And you can hear moments from his back catalogue: from Bowie's 'Low' to U2's 'Elevation'. If you liked Eno's work on Ferry's 'Mamouna', Bowie's 'Outside' or Passengers' 'Original Soundtracks 1' then you'll fall in love with this disc. If you think that everything that he's done the past fifteen years is shit then you better go out and buy Ultravox when it comes out on remastered CD. Posted by Cormac at 00:00, 08 Jun 2001