British producer, sound architect and (anti) musician Brian Eno is known as someone with an impulsive and unpredictable way of working. On Finding Shore, the album he made with the British pianist Tom Rogerson (Three Trapped Tigers), this gets almost predictable again. When the duo met, music was not discussed but it was about the town of Woodbridge where they both come from. Rogerson could hardly
… believe it himself when he eventually ended up in a studio behind a piano, with Eno at the controls. He unleashed all his unorthodox techniques on Rogerson's improvisations, based on drawing cards with assignments and randomly entered cut-ups and chord progressions. Rogerson's piano songs sound melancholic, from the classical school of Chopin and Satie. Eno supplements this with ambience and sound manipulations. Yet it seems like the magic he once created with a pianist, for example , don't strike. This time it lingers in shape. It all sounds nice, but it doesn't want to hit anywhere. (MR)more
