Track Listing 1. Fractal Zoom 2. Wire Shock 3. What Actually Happened? 4. Pierre in Mist 5. My Squelchy Life 6. Juju Space Jazz 7. Roil, The Choke, The 8. Ali Click 9. Distributed Being 10. Web 11. Web - (Lascaux mix, Appendix) 12. Decentre 13. Fractal Zoom - (Separate Time Edit, Remixed By Brian Eno) 14. Ali Click - (Trance mix, Remixed By The Grid)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 63 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Jamie West-Oram, John Paul Jones, Robert Fripp, Robert Quine, Roger Eno | | Producer: | Brian Eno, Markus Dravs | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel includes: Brian Eno (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, synthesizers, bass); Neil Catchpole, Christine West-Oram (vocals); Guy Barber, Maria Eno, Helen May (spoken vocals); Robert Quine, Gregg Arreguin, Jamie West-Oram, Robert Ahwai (guitar); Wayne Duchamp (alto saxophone); Alice Ngukwe (tenor saxophone); King Hastings Kwesi Banana (baritone saxophone); Curtis Pelican (trumpet); Rod Melvin (piano); Roger Eno (piano sample); Laurence Cottle, Romeo Williams (bass); Benmont Tench, Isaac Osapanin (percussion); Robert Fripp, John Paul Jones. Engineers include: Brian Fenner, Chris Fuhrman, Sid Wells. In 1991, Brian Eno announced the imminent release of his first all-pop solo album since 1978's BEFORE AND AFTER SCIENCE, to be called MY SQUELCHY LIFE. Instead, Eno shelved that album and released the peculiar NERVE NET in its place. Featuring a few of MY SQUELCHY LIFE's proposed songs, including the charming collage-like title track, the lengthy album is mostly instrumental. However, it's not at all like Eno's previous ambient work; these 12 songs are emphatically danceable and far less hermetic. Guests include guitarists Robert Fripp, Robert Quine, and Jamie West-Oram; keyboardists John Paul Jones, Benmont Tench, and Roger Eno; and a variety of drummers and percussionists who blend club-scene techno with exotic world music accents. The brief, gentle solo keyboard piece "Appendix: Decentre" adds a becalmed coda, but this frantic, polyglot album deserves the often self-contradictory list of adjectives presented in the liner notes.
Editorial Reviews ...a cyberpunk vision of exposed synapses on the verge of breakdown...Eno turns Miles Davis' ON THE CORNER grooves into a postmodern acid trip... Audio Magazine (01/01/1993)
...a sonic mutation clearly ahead of its time... NME (10/10/1992)
[U]nquestionably his funkiest project....It's a landmark in post-rock dance music. It has a strangeness and charm best described by one of its own track titles, 'Ju-Ju Space Jazz'. The Wire
...a summation of the various pop styles that Eno used on his four non-ambient albums between 1973 and 1977...superbly fuses all those early works...NERVE NET is, pure and simply, a lot of fun... Alternative Press (12/01/1992)
3 Stars - Good - ...explore[s] a wide variety of musical landscapes...excitingly new... Q (10/01/1992)
...Building various studio ideas and jams into the 12 tracks here, his approach is more musical than most industrial techno and less disco oriented than rave-type stuff. The closest precedent from Eno's past would be MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS... Option (11/01/1992)
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