Brian Eno, Karl Hyde, Jon Hopkins, Leo Abrahams & The Necks

PURE SCENIUS - LUMINOUS FINALE
Sydney, Opera House, Concert Hall
14 June 2009

Concert:

(1: 5pm - 6.30pm)
--> 2: 7.30pm - 9pm
(3: 9.45pm - 11.15pm)

This is concert no. 2 (of 3)

Sydney Opera House - Concert Hall
(looking from the land side, located in the left wing)

Brian Eno - electronics, treatments, vocals
Peter Chilvers - Brian Eno's assistant
Jon Hopkins - electronics
Karl Hyde - vocals
Leo Abrahams - guitars
Plus "The Necks": ( http://www.thenecks.com/default.htm )
Chris Abrahams - piano
Lloyd Swanton - bass
Tony Buck - drums

recording equipment: Churchaudio Cardioid Microphone System > Edirol R09-HR


This wonderful recording was handed over to me by a friendly soul (who wants to be anonymous). I am `only` the uploader.
All thanks and thumbs up to *you*. I am happy and grateful for this recording (and all the other ones that are already uploaded or will be) since I couldn`t be there. What an Eno fest that was!!!!!


taper's notes:

Some images are provided with this torrent to show the ambient of this event:

Before the concerts, most of the crowd had gathered on the western upper platform, to watch the spectecular scene of the sun setting behind one of the pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Between and after the concerts we were closup witnesses to the last night of Brian Eno's spectecular and ever changing illumination of the Opera House sails.

When returning to the concert hall we were greeted by the unique sight of all the musicians camping out on the lounge chairs on the right side of the stage, engrossed in conversation. The joke about the missing change rooms at the beginning of concert 2 refers to this. Concert 2 was the shortest of the 3 concerts, the only one without an encore, explained by the fact that the concert needed to be cleared out quickly, to make room for the cleaners preparing the hall for the audience of the next concert. Brian Eno explains this by bashfully admitting to also having "another audience" (which of course to a large degree consisted of the same people having attended this concert).

In contrast to the first concert, this one was made up of several clearly defined pieces. Brian Eno refers to the first one as samples of "Black Noise" from a future Japanese "Ikebana Noise Club". This one had started the set with an intense and sudden burst of noise, mostly from all things metal in the drum kit. We also got another rendition of the piece "Pink Moon", which was the encore of the first concert. 


I have cut out a few moments of applause and silence, to make this concert fit onto 1 CD.