Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois is one of the most influential record producers of the modern era: the man who brought Bob Dylan back; longtime collaborator with Brian Eno, soundsculpting a series of mammoth releases for U2; and producer of breakthrough late-career albums by Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris.
But before all that, Daniel Lanois was an experimental musician, recording his unique guitar voicings for groundbreaking albums with guys like Brian Eno and Jon Hassell, along the way helping to invent a genre called ambient music. What is lost in the wild success of his production career is Lanois’ musical life at the edge, which is where Flesh and Machine, his new album on ANTI-, comes full circle.
A wildly ambitious, diverse exploration of modern sonics, Flesh and Machine careens from the huge guitar skronk of “The End” to the haunted landscapes of “Iceland.” But perhaps for the first time, Lanois’ new album highlights the strange parallel evolution that has taken place in Daniel’s music; alongside the developments in IDM that launched from the same 70s avante-intrumental roots as Eno and company, Lanois’ music has developed a rhythmic complexity heard in the most adventurous music by Autechre or Matmos. Only for Lanois, nothing is digital. Dense, visceral music that combines the primitive stomach-pounding volume of rock with the heartbreaking found sonics of early electronic music, Flesh and Machine reminds us that we are bodies in a mechanized world, and that in the midst of our digital noise we must not forget to breathe.
Daniel Lanois will be touring North America all fall presenting Flesh and Machine to a waiting public, culminating in the first ANTI- music festival in Brooklyn this November.
Lanois has scanned over 230,000 records on his own projects, and many more in collaboration with artists like Brian Eno. His productions have sold in the zillions, including recent work such as Neil Young acclaimed Le Noise.
Flesh and Machine will appeal to fans of Daniel’s unique organic music-making, but also to fans of new instrumental music from Autechre to Explosions In The Sky.
RIYL: Autechre, Matmos, Brian Eno
TRY: #2, 7, 10
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