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Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is a loose concept album that references themes of geopolitical intrigue ranging from espionage to the Chinese Communist Revolution. It did not chart in the United Kingdom or the United States, but received positive reviews from critics.
About “Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)”. Inspired by a series of postcards of a Chinese revolutionary opera, titled the album’s name, Eno’s sophomore album was described by him as ...
Nov 1, 2023 · Listen to Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) on Apple Music and Spotify. Central to the new record’s creation was the principle of “Oblique Strategies”, a set of instruction cards...
Aug 3, 2017 · A smutty stack of playing cards had appeared on the cover of Here Come the Warm Jets; Eno’s next rock album, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), was inspired by yet another set of cards,...
Sep 18, 2016 · His first two solo albums, Here Come the Warm Jets and Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy), had reimagined glam rock as sound sculpture and established Eno not just as a practitioner of...
Apr 27, 2019 · Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is, in one sense, an extension of the perverse pop music revealed on Here Come The Warm Jets. But where Jets was varied in style and execution, Tiger focuses on the arrangements of Eno and Phil Manzanera.
The full, singular sound of Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) was a natural evolution for Eno in many ways. On his second album, he continued the drone-y, dreamlike atmosphere he had established on Warm Jets, yet the songs on Tiger Mountain were more tightly compact and immediately accessible.
