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ENE "Cost vs Concious" and "Power is Burning" CD's, and ENE/Birds of Tin split CD "Key Ray" reviewed in online music magazine Recycle Your Ears

Review: ENE / Power is Burning

From Vice

Labradford/Surfers of Romantica 12" remix the group known as ENE release their Power is Burning album on new label Arms vs. Legs out of (you guessed it) New York. Based on their live shows, ENE use raw loops as a foundation while layering improvised organic tones and moods with an arsenal of acoustic and electronic instruments. Loose in feel, the tracks sway back and forth like ODB after too many colt 45s. It's moody and groovy in a Warp vs. Kranky vs. King Tubby kinda way.


From Bananafish #16

Reenacted Civil War-era skirmishes waddle through dreamy Samurai ballets on ENE's Power is Burning, 1996 to 1997 CD (Arms vs. Legs, 1999), nearly an hour of geographic liberation by this Eastern seaboard trio of ghee-dripped Khazars. Copies of the Lettuce Sutra - that venerable guide to flabba-dabba improv printed on cabbage leaf parchment - belonging to Rob Miller, Scott Hudgins and Chris Bush are evidently well thumbed. The trio sends narcodelic condolences to the wake of an Algerian raver, and allow their digital snake-bodied Ophidians to gnaw on a Klabund requiem (because leash laws suck). Although the Rastafarian nation would be justified in demanding their tape loops back, the majority of the elements in ENE's collage of recycled material absorb and denature one another like baking soda and Glade air freshener.