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| In 1978 with the release of "Music for Airports," Brian Eno coined the term "ambient music." He included a manifesto explaining "ambient music must be able to accomodate many levels of listening attention without enfourcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting." In 1978 guitar players were still the kings of popular music, all trying to outstrut each other through their solos, 2/3 through each song and often at the expense of the song. On his debut solo album, Jeremy Boyle, computer guy and handyman for Chicago's Joan Of Arc, plucks the feathers from the peacock guitar heros of the 1970's. Through an arduos process of sampling, effecting, and editing brief snippets of guitar solos by the most famous (not best) guitar heros of the 1970's, Boyle creates layers of ambient lulls and drifts, never directly revealing their origins. The manner of constructing the songs could be compared to that of Marcus Popp of Oval, in that the source samples are actually handicaps to overcome instead of a simple recycling. The intention of the sources sampled completely shift. Complex displays of technical proficiency and vanity become complex layering and thought, not fingering. The most subtle change on one layer can roll the whole song over on itself. Beautiful and simple, left wide open and never revealing itself completely at once, the music allows glimpses of what it could be, activating the ear of the listener, once only a passive spectator to the heroics of guitar players. |
jeremy boyle
songs from the guitar solos
(southern records)
RELEASE DATE: 1st November 1999