Eno, Brian

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1974 / 2004
Remastered reissue of this 1974 release.
Eno first emerged as a member of Roxy Music, where the synthesizer player electronically "treated" the band's other instruments, the first indicator that the recording process was itself Eno's chosen instrument. His subsequent career has been one of the most provocative in pop, for not only did he devote himself to such obscure pursuits as "ambient music," but he produced vital albums by David Bowie, Talking Heads, and U2. Eno made a handful of relatively conventional pop albums in the 1970s, and Another Green World ranks with Before and After Science as his most enduring solo work. Another Green World finds Eno mixing distorted guitars (courtesy of Robert Fripp) with a variety of keyboards and exotic rhythms to create a meditative wash of sound that is nonetheless awash with colorful touches. Particularly appealing is the bubbling "St. Elmo's Fire," with a stunning guitar part by Fripp, and "I'll Come Running," in which Eno shows that even a dedicated experimentalist can have a soft heart. From the strange-but-true file, Phil Collins contributes drums and percussion to three tracks. --John Milward

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1983 / 2019
A remastered and expanded edition of the album will be released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing reinterpret the soundtrack to For All Mankind. The 2CD Limited Edition also includes a 24-page hardcover book. Brian Eno's ambient record and THE most underrated album of this style. This music was originally made to accompany NASA films and films also run in your head when you hear this music: endless expanses, weightless gliding..new worlds. The album is divided into 2 halves, the 1st half is 95% electronic, the 2nd is indescribable, in 3/4 time, with a steel guitar... it's just out of this world and triggers such feelings. For almost 30 years....timeless. The pioneer of ambient music.If you ever wondered what ambient music is all about, you could do worse than listen to the soundtrack by Brian Eno that accompanied the stunning visuals of NASA's Apollo missions to the moon. Created with an intoxicating mixture of acoustic and electronic, the music makes the now-classic space travel images more magical and memorable, introducing a dreamlike element to scenes of cold reality. "An Ending (Ascent)" is about as close to an actual tune as you'll get, but, as with every track, a shining example of what ambient music reveals about itself--slowly and carefully.

If you've ever wanted to experience weightlesness, buy this recording. It is truly atmospheric, elegant, and downright beautiful. There are also some rather frightening moments (I think)contined in "Matta" which is worthy of the best sci-fi soundtracks. The ultimate piece on this CD is "An Ending (Ascent)". It is simply one of the most breathtakingly beautiful "songs" I have ever heard. The first time I heard it, I knew I wanted to become a musician. It's simplicity and aching beauty is something I've tried to recreate in my music, but haven't quite topped this. I've listened to this piece I would estimate in the thousands of times, and it still takes my breath away.

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1977 / 2009
Here the remasterd version.
Eno's true masterpeice is 'Before and After Science'. It utilizes everything that was great about Brian Eno, from his fast paced glam rock to his slow, meditative confessionals, and even leaves room for some ambient music(which Eno invented). Whereas 'Here Comes the...' was sometimes overflowing with too much "glam", and 'Another...' was slightly overdoing it with the ambience/instrumentals, 'Before and...' strikes just the right balance. The first side is mostly in the same vein as 'Here Comes...' with some fabulous songs like "Kings Lead Hat". Side 2 on the other hand is THE gratest side of music in rock history. It is basically a mix of what Eno experimented with on Side 2 of David Bowie's 'Low' and what he himself did on 'Another Green World'. Every song on Side 2 has shimmering beauty that I have never heard anywhere else. 'Here he Comes', 'Julie With...', 'By This River', & 'Spider and I' are all perfect songs, and 'Through Hollow Lands' is one of Eno's most beautiful instrumentals (along with Sombre Reptiles, Becalmed, & anything off 'Music for Airports).

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1975 / 2009
Here the remasterd version.
The first, title track, is over 30 minutes of sonic bliss that never ever gets boring and only gets better with repeated listenings. Fantastic discreet music to play while you're involved in creative activities. The remainder of the CD, at first, doesn't seem to match the mood...but after that initial observation the BEAUTY shines through...so the whole CD is great.
"Discreet Music" consists, per Eno's description in the liner notes, of "two simple and mutually compatible melodic lines of different duration stored on a digital recall system" that are occasionally altered "by means of a graphic equalizer". Put simply, two loops play, of differing lengths, for the period of about 30 minutes, rising and falling, swelling and coming and going, intertwining with each other. What is most amazing is how these two simple statements can be so unbelievably powerful, emotionally overwhelming, and purely engaging. It is really one of the finest pieces in all of Eno's catalog.
The Pachelbel canon variations are somewhat less interesting, though still quite enjoyable Again from the liner notes, "each variation takes a small section of the score (two to four bars) as its starting point, and permutates the players' parts such that they overlay each other in ways not suggested by the original score". The result is breathtaking, and adds a familiar resonance to it.
 

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 2011
Brian Eno first came across the work of Rick Holland in the late 90 s during the Map-Making project; a series of collaborative works between students of the Royal College, the Guildhall School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, the National Youth Orchestra and the English National Ballet, among others.
In 2003, Brian and Rick made their first music together (the resulting work does not appear on this album). In the intervening time since that initial session they have met infrequently to work on new compositions.
In early 2011, following the release of Small Craft on a Milk Sea (Brian s debut album for Warp Records), the pair resolved to finish the project. Drums Between the Bells is the result.

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1992
This CD is made of many different remixes of the song "Fractal Zoom" off of Eno's Nerve Net album, plus the inclusion of the song "The Roil, The Choke" which is a superb construction of electronic melancholia. Even though the disc is labeled as a "CD Single" it contains, if I recall correctly, 65-70 minutes of music.

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1973 / 1987
This record is a who's who of the then-burgeoning English art-rock scene, featuring Robert Wyatt, Robert Fripp, and every member of Roxy Music except its leader (thus answering the musical question, "What if Eno had helmed the third Roxy record instead of Ferry?"). Warm Jets sports a lightheartedness that was a refreshing antidote to the pomposity of Yes and ELP on the dark side of art-rock's spectrum, with nonsensical, sound-based couplets such as "Oh headless chicken / How can those teeth stand so much kicking?" This debut is a milestone not just for Eno, but for all rocking music. Listen to Fripp's furious guitars on "Baby's On Fire" and "Blank Frank." It's incredible, Velvet Underground-inspired rock in a scene that had forgotten what rocking meant.

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 2012
LUX is Brian Eno’s first solo album on Warp Records and his first solo album since 2005’s Another Day On Earth.  It finds him expanding upon the types of themes and sonic textures that were present on such classic albums as Music For Films, Music For Airports and Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. Eno sees it as a continuation of his 'Music for Thinking' project that includes Discreet Music (1975) and Neroli (1993).
LUX is one of Eno’s most ambitious works to date; it is a 75-minute composition in twelve sections that evolved from a work currently housed in the Great Gallery of the Palace of Venaria in Turin, Italy. The album is Eno's third for Warp, following two collaborative albums Small Craft on a Milk Sea (with Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams) and Drums Between The Bells (with Rick Holland).

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 2005
This Original Masters release presented as a digipak in a clear plastic cover sleeve with barcode sticker.
Tracks 1, 3, 10 to 14 originally appeared on the 1993 release I: Instrumental.
Tracks 15 to 21 originally appeared on the 1983 release Music for Films Volume 2.
Tracks 5 and 8 originally appeared on the 1978 release Music For Films as 'Patrolling Wire Borders' and 'Quartz' respectively.
It appears that when the newly transferred tracks for the master of this album were being compiled, tracks 18 and 20 were mistakenly repeated (the song "Approaching Taidu" was duplicated while the song "Climate Study" was omitted). A new master was prepared and corrected stocks of this album were shipped in the US by the third week of April 2005. This mispressed version has identical artwork to the standard version, therefore track 18 is titled 'Climate Study' on the release.

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1978 / 1987
This is one of the origins of the style: ambientmusic. Brian Eno played this style for the first time way back in 1978 and this is still a milestone in history of ambientmusic.