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From Brussels With Love (1980) - front cover

"From Brussels With Love" is a cassette compilation that was released jointly by Factory Records (UK) and Les Disques Du Crepescule (Benelux) in late 1980.

 

I can't remember how much I paid for it (probably about £3) but it arrived in a PVC wallet which contained the cassette, an arty 16 page booklet, a "fiche technique" containing the tracklisting and a "mode d'emploi" for repeated listening with or without the interviews with Brian Eno and Jeanne Moreau which appear at the end of side one and the beginning of side two respectively. It contains a wide variety of interesting music, most of which has never seen the light of day anywhere else.

 

However, the best thing about it for me turned out to be the fact that the Jeanne Moreau interview is accompanied by two of Erik Satie's piano pieces ("Gnossienne #5" and "Je Te Veux"). I'd never heard of him at the time and it was one of my best ever musical discoveries....

 

Tracklisting:

 

SIDE ONE

 

John Foxx - A Jingle (25s)

Thomas Dolby - Airwaves

Repetition - Stranger

Harold Budd - Children On The Hill

Durutti Column - Sleep Will Come

Martin Hannett - The Music Room

The Names - Cat

Michael Nyman - A Walk Through H

An interview with Brian Eno (musical accompaniment by Phill Niblock)

John Foxx - A Jingle (8s)

 

SIDE TWO

 

An interview with Jeanne Moreau w (musical accompaniment by Erik Satie)

Richard Jobson - Armouny Show

Bill Nelson - The Shadow Garden

Durutti Column - Piece For An Ideal

Kevin Hewick & New Order - Haystack

Radio Romance - Etrange Affinite

Gavin Bryars - White's SS

Der Plan - Meine Freunde

Gilbert & Lewis - Twist Up

John Foxx - A Jingle (13s)

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