Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno – Brian Eno – is an electronic musician and producer. Also known for his multifaceted interests outside of music, especially technological. He was born 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK.
He attended Ipswich and Winchester Arts Schools.
Starting his musical career early, first thing of note being with the band Roxy Music, Eno has gone on to produce a number of highly eclectic and increasingly ambient electronic and acoustic albums, and also works frequently as producer for many popular artists. He is widely cited as coining the term “ambient music”, with his series of albums using the term recorded between 1978 and 1982.
He collaborated with David Byrne of Talking Heads on My life in the bush of ghosts (1981) which was one of the first albums not in the rap or hip-hop genres to extensively feature sampling.
Eno collaborated with David Bowie as a writer and musician on Bowie’s influential “Berlin Trilogy” of albums, Low (1977), Heroes (1977), and Lodger (1979), on Bowie’s later album, Outside – The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle(1995), and on the track I’m afraid of Americans (1997). He has also collaborated with Robert Fripp of King Crimson, Robert Wyatt on the Shleep (1997) album and Jon Hassell with the German duo Cluster.
Eno is also well known for acting as a producer for a number of bands, including U2,James and Coldplay. He won the Best Producer award at the 1994 and 1996 BRIT awards. He is an innovator across many fields of music and collaborated on the development of the Koan algorithmic music generator. He has also been involved in the field of visual arts. In 1996 Brian Eno, and others, started the Long Now Foundation to educate the public into thinking about the very long term future of society. Brian Eno is also a columnist for the British newspaper, The Observer.
Eno was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019 as a member of Roxy Music.
Starting his musical career early, first thing of note being with the band Roxy Music, Eno has gone on to produce a number of highly eclectic and increasingly ambient electronic and acoustic albums, and also works frequently as producer for many popular artists. He is widely cited as coining the term “ambient music”, with his series of albums using the term recorded between 1978 and 1982.
He collaborated with David Byrne of Talking Heads on My life in the bush of ghosts (1981) which was one of the first albums not in the rap or hip-hop genres to extensively feature sampling.
Eno collaborated with David Bowie as a writer and musician on Bowie’s influential “Berlin Trilogy” of albums, Low (1977), Heroes (1977), and Lodger (1979), on Bowie’s later album, Outside – The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle(1995), and on the track I’m afraid of Americans (1997). He has also collaborated with Robert Fripp of King Crimson, Robert Wyatt on the Shleep (1997) album and Jon Hassell with the German duo Cluster.
Eno is also well known for acting as a producer for a number of bands, including U2,James and Coldplay. He won the Best Producer award at the 1994 and 1996 BRIT awards. He is an innovator across many fields of music and collaborated on the development of the Koan algorithmic music generator. He has also been involved in the field of visual arts. In 1996 Brian Eno, and others, started the Long Now Foundation to educate the public into thinking about the very long term future of society. Brian Eno is also a columnist for the British newspaper, The Observer.
Eno was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019 as a member of Roxy Music.
This is a reissue of his 1977 album.
Tracklisting:
| A1 | No One Receiving |
| A2 | Backwater |
| A3 | Kurt’s Rejoinder |
| A4 | Energy Fools The Magician |
| A5 | King’s Lead Hat |
| B1 | Here He Comes |
| B2 | Julie With… |
| B3 | By This River |
| B4 | Through Hollow Lands (For Harold Budd) Synthesizer [Moog] – Brian Eno |
| B5 | Spider And I |
