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Brian Eno From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brian Eno Brian Eno 2008.jpg Eno, at the Museo MADRE of Naples, in June 2008 Background information Birth name Brian Peter George Eno Born 15 May 1948 (age 65) Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK Genres Experimental rock, ambient, minimalism, electronic, art rock, glam rock, art pop[1] Occupations Producer, musician, songwriter, artist Instruments Synthesizer, piano, keyboards, vocals, organ, saxophone, guitar, bass Years active 1970–present Labels Island, Polydor, EG, Obscure, Opal, Virgin, Astralwerks, All Saints Records, Rykodisc Associated acts Roxy Music, David Bowie, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Robert Fripp, Cluster, Devo, U2, David Byrne, Robert Wyatt, 801 Website brian-eno.net Music sample Dune Prophecy Theme 0:00 Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno,[2] RDI[3] (born 15 May 1948 and originally christened Brian Peter George Eno), professionally known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno,[4] is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.[5] Eno was a student of Roy Ascott on his Groundcourse at Ipswich Civic College. Then he studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex, England, taking inspiration from minimalist painting. During his time on the art course at the Institute, he also gained experience in playing and making music through teaching sessions held in the adjacent music school. He joined the band Roxy Music as synthesiser player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music. It has also been immensely influential, pioneering ambient and generative music, innovating production techniques, and emphasising "theory over practice".[6] He also introduced the concept of chance music to popular audiences, partially through collaborations with other musicians.[7] Eno has also worked as an influential music and album producer. By the end of the 1970s, Eno had worked with David Bowie on the seminal "Berlin Trilogy" and helped popularise the American band Devo and the punk-influenced "No Wave" genre. He produced and performed on three albums by Talking Heads, including Remain in Light (1980), and produced seven albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree (1987). Eno has also worked on records by James, Laurie Anderson, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Paul Simon, Grace Jones, James Blake and Slowdive, among others. Eno pursues multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, including art installations, a regular column on society and innovation in Prospect magazine, and "Oblique Strategies" (written with Peter Schmidt), a deck of cards in which cryptic remarks or random insights are intended to resolve dilemmas. Eno continues to collaborate with other musicians, produce records, release his own music, and write. Contents [hide] 1 Education and early musical career 2 Roxy Music 3 Solo work 3.1 1970s 3.2 1980s 3.3 1990s 3.4 2000s 3.5 2010s 4 Record producer and other projects 4.1 Record production 4.2 The Microsoft Sound 4.3 Video work 4.4 Generative music 4.5 Obscure records 4.6 Other work 5 Influence 6 Personal life and beliefs 7 Discography 8 Bibliography 9 Footnotes 10 References 11 External links Education and early musical career[edit]

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Biennale Musica 2023

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Biennale Musica 2023 Venezia, varie sedi 16--29.10.2023 Anno dopo anno le scelte artistiche di Lucia Ronchetti non finiscono di sorprendere. Alla Biennale Musica 2023, in un articolato e disinibito panorama della contemporaneità, la direttrice ha inserito anche due eventi di grande richiamo, invitando due protagonisti ormai consacrati dalla storia e non appartenenti all'ambito della musica contemporanea come abitualmente inteso; entrambi trasversali e difficilmente imitabili, tanto da essere diventati icone assolute e mitiche: Brian Eno e John ...

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Brian Eno: Foreverandevermore

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The shiny silver disc of Brian Eno's CD is encased in a simple outer shell of cardboard, accompanied by an equally unassuming booklet with over a half-dozen spherical images. In all probability, this modest packaging and those spheres, many supported by skeletal broadcast tower-like shafts, is a cryptic puzzle being used by Eno to help him contact someone, somewhere far, far beyond the faintest of stars. Curiously, any image of a human is absent. Regardless, power up your machine, insert ...

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Exposures

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Between the impact of the COVID pandemic since 2020, and in the eight year-long tenure of King Crimson's final lineup, which toured between 2014 and 2021, there's been a lot revealed about its sole remaining founding member, guitarist/keyboardist Robert Fripp. Since 2012, the more than five-decade history of King Crimson, live and in the studio, has been painstakingly and exhaustively documented in a series of large multimedia box sets and smaller, more price-friendly editions of key material, often ...

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A Year With Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary, 25th Anniversary Edition

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A Year with Swollen Appendices Brian Eno 480 Pages ISBN: 0571364616 Faber & Faber 2020 Published diaries are a strange affair. The relationship between the diarist and the diary itself is a private affair, considered to be almost sacred. People write their deepest, most heartfelt passions in their diaries, their thoughts, and desires, and they are safe in the knowledge that the diary will not be seen by others. This ...

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U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2CD)

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The music of U2 on All That You Can't Leave Behind is very much in keeping with the austere black and white graphics, preserved throughout the graphic design of this digipak as well as its enclosed twenty-four page booklet within. A distinct move away from the density of production experimentation on their three previous studio albums—Achtung Baby (Island, 1991), Zooropa (Island, 1993) and Pop (Island, 1997)— the sound produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois on this 2000 project is ...

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Roger and Brian Eno: Mixing Colours

Read "Mixing Colours" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


In a storied and kaleidoscopic career which has seen him change the course of music several times, it is fair to say that British musician, producer and visual artist, Brian Eno has never been one to park himself in the same spot for too long. It will come as little surprise then, that his latest effort, in collaboration with his younger brother, pianist and de-composer Roger Eno, titled Mixing Colours finds him inhabiting a seemingly known but vastly different space ...

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Brian Eno: Reflection

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Composer and producer Brian Eno's ambient record Reflection truly goes to the mind and the heart in a quiet and seductive way. This hour long intriguing and captivating tapestry of carefully interwoven sounds conjures up landscapes of internal emotions that reflect the warmth and quiet of the first day of the new year when it was released. Eno's records have always been a fascinating blend of aesthetic, emotions, careful strategy and technology and as such have always functioned on many ...

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Jade Collective Dreamily Combines Jazz With Brian Eno And Shoegaze Influences On 'Cycles'

Jade Collective Dreamily Combines Jazz With Brian Eno And Shoegaze Influences On 'Cycles'

Source: Christine King

Jade Collective is a group of talented musicians with the common goal of bringing freshness, personality and innovation to the world of modern jazz music. Their most recent EP features five songs that blur the lines between a wide range of musical influences. The first song, “Light” showcases beautiful ambient soundscapes and piano parts that make me think of artists like Brian Eno. Over the beautiful droning textures, a set of beautiful acoustic instruments and passionate vocals create an intimate ...

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Keyboardist And Brian Eno Collaborator Peter Chilvers And Guitarist Jon Durant Create A Series Of Stunningly Beautiful Aural Vistas

Keyboardist And Brian Eno Collaborator Peter Chilvers And Guitarist Jon Durant Create A Series Of Stunningly Beautiful Aural Vistas

Source: Glass Onyon PR - William James

English keyboardist and Brian Eno collaborator Peter Chilvers teamed up with American guitarist Jon Durant to create a series of stunningly beautiful aural vistas, which blend ECM inspired chamber jazz improvisation with ambient music. For both artists, this recording was an opportunity to explore their introspective sides as well as their textural tendencies. Gentle melodies weave their way through atmospheric clouds, at times reminiscent of Budd and Eno, but with a sense of interplay between the guitar and keys those ...

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Holiday Gift Idea: New Book Features Kronos Quartet, Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakatmoto, Arvo Pärt, Jon Hassell, Michael Price And The Art Ensemble Of Chicago

Holiday Gift Idea: New Book Features Kronos Quartet, Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakatmoto, Arvo Pärt, Jon Hassell, Michael Price And The Art Ensemble Of Chicago

Source: All About Jazz

The Moderns vol.2 explores the world’s great avant-garde artists. BADD PRESS announces the launch of The Moderns vol. 2, the second installment of a series dedicated to the world’s great avant-garde artists. Featuring more than 200 reviews and interviews, the book introduces readers to established and emerging music leaders from around the world. “The first volume was so warmly received,” says author Kevin Press. “Since its publication at the beginning of this year, I’ve been sent music from all over ...

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Industry Giant Brian Eno Talks Music, Global Politics

Industry Giant Brian Eno Talks Music, Global Politics

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Few creative forces in the music industry are held in as high esteem as Brian Eno, noted for not only his musical contributions but also his work as a producer, writer, and thinker in the music business. Here he sat down to discuss his innovative musical work, as well as his involvement in global political affairs.  Guest post by award winning music industry journalist Larry LeBlanc from Celebrity Access This week In the Hot Seat with Larry LeBlanc: Brian Eno, musician, artist, producer, thinker. It ...

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Brian Eno: New Album out 7.5

Brian Eno: New Album out 7.5

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Brian Eno: 1971-1977: The Man Who Fell to Earth

Brian Eno: 1971-1977: The Man Who Fell to Earth

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DOCUMENTARY FEATURING EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS, ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE, PERFORMANCE, STUDIO FILM, AND MORE Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno—Brian to his friends, Eno to the rest of us—defies categorisation. Musician, composer, record producer, music theorist, singer and visual artist covers some of what he does, but he's probably best known for his early work with Roxy Music, his production duties for U2 and Coldplay and as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. 1971-1977 : The ...

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Top 10 Keepers for 2010: From the Black Keys to Brian Eno to Buddy Guy

Top 10 Keepers for 2010: From the Black Keys to Brian Eno to Buddy Guy

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By Nick DeRiso For me, the traditional year-ending Top 10 list has a more utilitarian standard: Which albums did I add to my permanent rotation? See, it's the rarest of rare items that actually becomes a member of the collection. That's the kind of standout recording we'll be talking about today for my calendar-turning retrospective. I don't know if they are, in fact, the best. But they're coming with me. If there's a theme, looking over my list, it might ...

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Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea (2010)

Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea (2010)

Source: Something Else!

By Nick DeRiso He's got a name that sounds like the future. So, naturally, you expect Brian Eno to be ever changing, on the move, eyes continually fixed on the horizon. That's why I was starting to hate Small Craft on a Milk Sea. Eno's new album opens with a crystalline piano line, echoing across a frozen ocean of cloud on “Emerald and Lime," before this smeared keyboard ushers in a wandering guitar in “Complex Heaven." For fans of Eno's ...

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Brian Eno: The Dick Flash Interview

Brian Eno: The Dick Flash Interview

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The Friday Morning Listen: Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)

The Friday Morning Listen: Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)

Source: Something Else!

By Mark Saleski What is it about a vacation? Let's say that there's just the two of you, a house, no kids. Then, you go on vacation, arriving at your destination spot. So now the house has been swapped for a nice hotel room with a view (in our case, a view of the side of an old warehouse, but no matter...). Why does it feel so different? So relaxing? Is it just because the responsibilities of daily life have ...

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Exposures

Panegyric Recordings
2022

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Foreverandevermore

Opal Limited / Verve UMC Records
2022

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Mixing Colours

Deutsche Grammophon
2020

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All That You Can't...

Universal Music Group
2020

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Ba-Benzélé /...

Zebra Records
2008

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