the purpose driven music paradigm - Escape Babylon's Demons

Eno and David Bowie
"I believe rock 'n roll is dangerous, it could very well bring about a very evil feeling in the west ...
it's got to go the other way now, and that's where I see it heading, bringing about the dark era ..."
"I feel that we are only heralding something even darker than ourselves."
"Rock 'n' roll lets in lower elements and shadows that I don't think are ne cessary. Rock has
always been the Devil's music, you can't convince me that it isn't."
(David Bowie, Rolling Stone Magazine, 1972)
Eno has produced David Bowie. In a interview containing David Bowie’s remarks on
Brian Eno in Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine SEPTEMBER 1995 written by Ingrid
Sischy, Bowie comments on the unity of mind that he and Eno share. Chapter 8
points out that Bowie is influenced by Gnosticism and Aleister Crowley’s Thelema.
Because of that meeting, we realised that we were thinking in very similar ways about experimenting
in popular music, and that our interests were converging again, which really gave us the impetus to
work together again. Over the next few months we wrote each other mini manifestos about what we
would and wouldn't do in the studio, so that at least when we went in we'd have a set of concepts
that would enable us to avoid all the things we find boring and bland in popular music. We didn't
want parameters.(source:.http://www26.brinkster.com/brianeno/index.html?eno_int_rsmay78.html~frameHOME_)
Another source reveals the extent of Eno’s impact upon David Bowie.
There are those that argue Brian Eno never bettered these four releases and, in a way, they are
right. They still define his career; the roots of Bowie’ s's future direction is here, as is most good 80s
alternative pop (and there was some). Deliciously sinister, sensuously warped, and sounding and
looking so great, this is pop as it's meant to be corrupted. (SINISTER Record Collector MAY 2004 - by
Darly Easlea) source:http://www26.brinkster.com/brianeno/index.html?eno_int_rs -
may78.html~frameHOME
Bowie credits production success to Eno’s cybernetics.
“Everything that came together on this album came about through accident and synthesis and
through Brian’s take on cybernetics that you take systems and, in destroying them, you recover the
pieces that seem to work and make them into something new. Brian is a born cybernetician.”
(source:.http://www26.brinkster.com/brianeno/index.html?eno_int_rs-may78.html~frameHOME_)
Eno is a serious student of cybernetics. He believes what people find in their music is
what they think they ought to find in their lives. He believes people are drawn to
music that presents them with a way of dealing with the world that they enjoy.