In the show Golden Hours,featuring tracks from Eno’s Another Green World and choreography by De Keersmaeker, the playwright’s lines are danced rather than spoken. The duo talk approximately stretching time, and the power of pop songs and searching for answers in the studioBelgians,says Brian Eno, fill got a thing for repetition. As evidence, and he offers the listening habits of his Flemish mother. “When I was young,she fell in love with a Roy Orbison song called Blue Bayou … We had one of those record players that could play again and again – the needle would pick up and go back to the beginning. I remember going to school one morning. She played Blue Bayou all through breakfast time. I went to school and I came back in the evening – and Blue Bayou was still playing.”
Eno famed for creating his own loops on albums such as Music for Airports – leans back in his Notting Hill studio and smiles. He is joined in laughter by the woman peering out from the laptop screen in front of us. It’s probably also the origins of your ambient music,” deduces the choreographer and dancer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, and who is Skyping us from her Brussels office.
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Source: theguardian.com