Conversation Piece: Brian Eno and Jon Hassell

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This porn for music conversationalists features two great talkers who are also great music-makers—a rarer combo than you'd think. From his still-affecting solo-experimental-pop debut in 1974, Here Come the Warm Jets, to this year's No Line on the Horizon, on which he participated as a full fifth or sixth member of U2, producer-musician-composer Brian Eno has altered the meaning and use of ambience (not to mention samples and synthesizers) in rock 'n' roll. Composer-trumpeter Jon Hassell collaborated on one of Eno's best non-Talking Heads-related albums, 1980's Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics, and has continued the association ever since, along with a dialogue that the Walker is dubbing "making the world safe for pleasure/control and surrender/kinds of abstraction sickness/transcendence and intoxication: what sex, art, religion, music, and drugs have in common." They should have this wrapped up in about five minutes. Tickets are sold out
Tue., Sept. 22, 7 p.m., 2009