I don't know this Brian Eno character's music, but it is a pity that he is kowtowing to thugs who would infringe upon the free speech of all of us. From Rogier Van Bakel's Nobody's Business blog:
April 11 will see the release of the 25th-anniversary edition of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, David Byrne's and Brian Eno's seminal album of world music and sampling wizardry. But one track that was on the original record didn't make it onto the re-release. Tellingly, it's the one titled Qu'ran [sic].According to this website, the Islamic Council of Great Britain voiced its strong objection to the track because among the snippets of 'found music,' it prominently features a chant from Islam's good book. And so,
[I]n the days of watching the Fatwahs [pronouncements of death] fly back and forth, Eno and his pals deemed it [wise] to exclude it.Download the song for free here.
A fatwa is actually a ruling on any disputed question, not necessarily a death sentence. But the point still holds.
Has John Cage's Radio Music ever been performed in the Mideast? Chances are good (pun intended) that something similar would happen.
On the other hand live, aleatoric "found" music, as opposed to the canned excerpt in Eno's recording, could be taken as the will of Allah.
Sounds like another fatwa is an order to clear things up.
As for Eno:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno
His music is on iTunes (minus "Quran," interestingly), also, if one is into that sort of thing.
"Tellingly, it's the one titled Qu'ran [sic]."
Did Robert misspell sick...?
Eno, since the 1970's, has been ambient electronica's answer to the more 'classical' Phillip Glass. Repetitious trance-inducing backroundy stuff. Inobtrusive. So his lack of willingness to defend himself/his 'art' is not surprising. And is typical of the modern 'popular' artists/musicians/dramatists/film-makers who will gleefully kick the tame dog of Christianity around the block, but as soon as the Islamic pitbull bares one yellowed snaggletooth, they pee in their pants and run for mamma's skirts.
Forgetting that the more you bow to terror, the more terror you invite.
"We must all hang together, or we shall certainly hang seperately." - Ben "Go Fly A Kite!" Franklin.
Here's one who doesn't back off:
http://www.terrorists-suck.org/fight/the_shoe_bomber.mp3
http://islamcomicbook.com/lyrics.htm
Click on 'winds of Jihad' on the 2nd link to listen to 'my Allah is better...'
Brian Eno is one of my very favourite musicians, from his days with Roxy Music to his aforementioned ambient phase. He is, in my opinion, nothing short of a musical genius. Anybody who doubts this should light up a fattie & immerse themselves in "Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks". He's produced and recorded with David Bowie, Talking Heads (David Byrne), Robert Fripp, and other monster 70s and 80s art and prog rock musicans.
My respect for his creativity, composing, and performance remains intact. As a devoted fan, I will give him the benefit of the doubt and hope that it was Byrne who insisted on leaving out the song in question.
Incidentally, Brian Eno wrote the Windows 98 logon sound.
This well-meaning moron, Eno, hasn't a clue that the Quran OUTLAWS MUSIC!!!!!!!!!
So now the lefties are singing about something that oulaws them and they're so dumb they don't even know it.
If I didn't laugh, I'd cry...
Sheikh
Have you added any more numbers?
I used to be under the impression that Brian Eno was a lead singer for U2. Or am I wrong?
Darrell - you beat me to it. My words exactly. "Apollo" must be one of my most played albums ever. Terrific ambient music, and a terrific score to a no less terrific film about the Apollo programme, "For All Mankind." If you are just the slightest into space footage, look up the Criterion DVD (OT I know, but think of it this way: on the Moon there are no.....).
FWIW I transferred this track from my original LP to my iTunes library and placed it into the set list of the album. Really spooky track.
Pythagoras - I don't believe Eno is a leftist, in fact I seem to remember him stating this explicitly in an interview years ago.
From an Eno forum:
I am muslim and this doesn’t offend me, or anyone I know, in the slightest. You can buy Quranic music at any shop in London or wherever. Just because this is in a different context does not make it haram. These people do not represent all Muslims! Anyway, my two cents.
Comment by Salim 04.03.06 @ 9:27 am
Darrel-
Somehow I can't see Eno's buddy and profound guitarist Robert "Court of the Crimson King"/"Starless and Bible Black" Fripp bowing so supinely to the pressure of music critics, whether Muslim or any other stripe.
His first record with 'King Crimson' had lyrics that are especially apt in today's political climate:
"The wall on which the prophets wrote
is cracking at the seams;
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams.
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
As silence drowns the screams?
Confusion, will be my epitaph
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh...
-but I fear, tomorrow, I'll be crying.
Yes, I fear, tomorrow, I'll be crying."
("EPITAPH"- lyrics: c. Peter Sinfield.)
Worth a listen, or re-listen. (Along with "21st Century Schizoid Man", which describes our current quality of leadership to a maddening T.)
Aha. The most holy and sacred and extremely wise Sixth Pillar of Islam: the pervasive threat of murder or personal injury to those not to the Religion of Peace's .
After all, what did "at its best Islam is a beautiful religion" Michael Savage do when his life was threatened. He called in a substitute host for his show, holed up in his compound, got plastered, and called into his own show wailing about how scared he was.
PBUH PBUH PBUH PBUH PBUH PBUH PBUH PBUH PBUH PBUH PBUH PBUH PBUH PBUH
We infidels have it tougher cuz we ain't Moslems. The Moslems have it better cuz they have one right we don't: the right to make felony-level terroristic threats. There's a reason they made that illegal.
That song is gone from the mac.com site
Yes Infidel pride,
I have 8 songs finished and 2 in work:
These are the titles:
'Abu Hamza',
the 'Philistine child'
'Muslim woman'
Zarquawi
9/11
The Mohound Dog
The Joooozzz
Toleranz
'I am your Imam...'
I need somebody interested to work with me on the album cover. I also want to make a booklet to go with it, perhaps some cartoons, whatever... It will be better than fireworks, I promise you.The Mohammedans can stick their 'Fatwa's to where the sun don't shine...
ISLAMIC COMMAND CENTER - MECCA
Mohammed: "What do you want the silly infidels to do next, Ali?"
Ali: "I don't know. Their pitiful fear caused them to surrender the freedoms to draw and make music. I thought they stood for something."
Mohammed: "Ha. That's a good one!"
Ali: "I really meant... Anyway, maybe we can get them to hop on one foot and rub their bellies while singing praises to Allah?
Mohammed: "That's a good one!"
Ali: "We'll start with George Galloway. He'll do anything and is a traitor to his culture. We should kill him first."
Not "Stand by your Imam"?
:-)
> The music is gone....
It's easy enough to find via a Limewire search.
(What a waste of time listening to, however.)
I have a suspicion that something has deliberately been done to the link you provided. When I clicked it, I first got the signal that I was going through, but then a 404 error message - which does not make much sense. This could be another case of electronic jihad, or it could be a matter of someone not wanting to violate a copyright, now that the big corporations seem to be increasing the pressure on file-swapping sites.