No New York
| No New York | |
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| Compilation album by various artists | |
| Released | 1978 |
| Recorded | 1978 at Big Apple Studio, New York City, United States |
| Genre | No wave |
| Length | 43:46 |
| Label | Antilles |
| Producer | Brian Eno |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Creem | ? |
| Robert Christgau | B+ |
| Pitchfork | 8.3/10 |
No New York is a compilation album released in 1978 by record label Antilles under the curation of producer Brian Eno. Although it only contained songs by four different artists, it is considered by many to be the definitive single album documenting New York City's late-1970s no wave movement.
Early in 1978, New York's Artists' Space hosted an underground rock festival with several local bands. The final two days of the show featured DNA and the Contortions on Friday, followed by Mars and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks on Saturday. English musician/producer Brian Eno, who'd originally came to New York to master the second Talking Heads album More Songs About Buildings and Food, was in the audience. Impressed by what he saw and heard, Eno was convinced that this movement should be documented and proposed the idea of a compilation album with himself as a producer.
When Eno recorded No New York, some of the sessions were done without much of the stylized production he was known for on other artists' albums.James Chance stated that the Contortions tracks were "done totally live in the studio, no separation between the instruments, no overdubs, just like a document." In 1979 Eno stated in his now famous lecture, "The Studio as Compositional Tool", that, "On 'Helen Thormdale' [sic] from the No New York album, I put an echo on the guitar part's click, and used that to trigger the compression on the whole track, so it sounds like helicopter blades."
The original pressing of the LP contained a lyric sheet that was intentionally printed inside out, so the lyrics were inaccessible. It was first reissued on CD by Island in Japan. The album was re-issued in 2005 by Lilith Records on vinyl and digipak form on compact disc.
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