Eno, Brian

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1974 / 1987
Amid all the discussion of Eno's innovations, people sometimes forget that he has the one quality that REALLY matters for a musician: personality. The four "song" albums he made in the 70s are loaded with personality. Eno could be weird and idiosyncratic, but there is also plenty of humor and even warmth in this music. And "Taking Tiger Mountain" was his greatest achievement.

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1997
Some tracks such as "Swanky", "M.C. Organ", "Blissed", "Rayonism" and "Dear World" are highly rhythmic in nature while others such as "Belgian Drop", "Out/Out", "Block Drop" and "Boomcubist" display a dry minimalist approach. There are also some chilling cinematic moments heard in "Hazard", "Boomcubist and "Back Clack". While there are these strong moments heard in the album, others such as "Slip Dip", "But If" and "Cornered" merely sound like underdeveloped ideas that begin and end before anything exciting begins to happen. Indeed, the entire album does feel like a disjointed soundtrack to an unreleased film. However, despite what seems like a lack of focus, there is somewhat of a cohesiveness throughout the entire disc and the pieces do oddly fit together in their own strange way.

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 2016
Humankind seems to teeter between hubris and paranoia: the hubris of our ever-growing power contrasts with the paranoia that we're permanently and increasingly under threat. At the zenith we realize we have to come down again...we know that we have more than we deserve or can defend, so we become nervous. Somebody, something is going to take it all from us: that is the dread of the wealthy. Paranoia leads to defensiveness, and we all end up in the trenches facing each other across the mud.” - Brian Eno The Ship, a new album by Brian Eno, will be released on March 4th, 2016 by Warp Records. The Ship is Eno’s first solo record since 2012’s Grammy- nominated LUX. Originally conceived from experiments with three dimensional recording techniques and formed in two, interconnected parts, The Ship is almost as much musical novel as traditional album. Eno brings together beautiful songs, minimalist ambience, physical electronics, omniscient narratives and technical innovation into a single, cinematic suite. The result is the very best of Eno, a record without parallel in his catalogue. The album opens with the 21-minute eponymously titled “The Ship” on which Eno’s cyclically sung sea-chant builds in ominous drama, followed by “Fickle Sun”, a song in three movements. The first continues where “The Ship” left but with Eno’s voice sounding more upfront, determined, even despairing. The album’s finale is a Lou Reed penned cover of The Velvet Underground’s “I’m Set Free”, a band who were famously credited by Eno as the inspiration behind his early music explorations as an art student. Coinciding with The Ship’s release, a series of Eno installations will be happening around the world at which you will be able to hear an alternative telling of The Ship in multi-channel 3-dimensional sound installations. In addition to the standard version, a collectors edition version of the CD will be available in a beautiful cloth bound case with a spot gloss cover and four individual art cards.

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1992
'The Shutov Assembly' is one of Brian Eno's ambient works, which means that it rewards close listening, but can also work as quiet, background music. The tone of the album is primarily a dark, late night feel... but it's not a downer. It has the dreamlike quality of 'Apollo' along with the mystery of 'On Land.' You can get lost in the density of 'Shutov' very easily, which is exactly the point! Out of the ten tracks, the highlight for me is "Ikebukuro," which is 16 minutes of organic tranquility. This track is probably my all-time favorite piece of music by Brian, and is worth the price of the CD by iteself. In fact, if played at a quiet volume, the whole album serves as an excellent tool for relaxation.

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1985 / 2005
When the CD format first began to take shape, legendary producer/composer/ambient pioneer Brian Eno jumped at the opportunity to create a piece of music specifically for the medium. The end result is the 1985 masterwork "Thursday Afternoon" which still stands strong as one of ambient music's shining moments 20 years later.
"Thursday Afternoon" is a single continuous 61-minute piece which remains unchanging in mood despite its epic length. Throughout its hour-long running time, there is a quiet single chord which is held through the entire piece. Single piano notes, bell-like tones, subtle chord washes and a light drone all settle themselves around the main central chord creating a lush beautiful landscape in sound. There is nothing compilicated or difficult about this piece. It is built with the most basic musical elements and is kept at its most simplistic form throughout. This is what makes "Thursday Afternoon" such an intruiguing work - its beauty of simplicity without becoming boring.
As mentioned above, "Thursday Afternoon" continues to be a pioneering ambient effort 20 years after its original release.
Here the remastered version from 2005.

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1985
When the CD format first began to take shape, legendary producer/composer/ambient pioneer Brian Eno jumped at the opportunity to create a piece of music specifically for the medium. The end result is the 1985 masterwork "Thursday Afternoon" which still stands strong as one of ambient music's shining moments 20 years later.
"Thursday Afternoon" is a single continuous 61-minute piece which remains unchanging in mood despite its epic length. Throughout its hour-long running time, there is a quiet single chord which is held through the entire piece. Single piano notes, bell-like tones, subtle chord washes and a light drone all settle themselves around the main central chord creating a lush beautiful landscape in sound. There is nothing compilicated or difficult about this piece. It is built with the most basic musical elements and is kept at its most simplistic form throughout. This is what makes "Thursday Afternoon" such an intruiguing work - its beauty of simplicity without becoming boring.
As mentioned above, "Thursday Afternoon" continues to be a pioneering ambient effort 20 years after its original release.

Artist: Various
P: 1997
Some very nice interpretations from very well known musician about pieces from the master of ambient.

Here the last copy!

Artist: Cluster & Eno
P: 1977 / 2005
Brian Eno's first collaboration with Cluster, the best of this album's instrumental pieces are too emotionally rich to waste as mere background music, evoking feelings of hesitancy and regret that rescue the music from mere vapid prettiness.
Three tracks in particular indicate things to come.
"Wehrmut" is an ethereal synth piece with the pace slowed to a tantalizing crawl. "Steinsame" features a treated guitar playing a slow figure over a dark, almost funereal synth melody.
"Schone Hande" uses watery synth effects to highlight a shivery rhythm pattern. Other pieces dispense with moody atmospherics altogether.
Tracks like "Ho Renomo" and "Selange" consist mainly of pounding rhythm patterns lightly embellished by piano or synthesizer, and "Die Bunge" sounds like an electronic goldfinch fluttering around a cartoon horse.
While not the unqualified success of their 1978 collaboration After the Heat, Cluster & Eno remains an important album.
Along with Eno's 1978 Music for Films, these works helped define the depth and promise of ambient music.

Artist: Cluster & Eno
P: 1977 / 2005
Brian Eno's first collaboration with Cluster, the best of this album's instrumental pieces are too emotionally rich to waste as mere background music, evoking feelings of hesitancy and regret that rescue the music from mere vapid prettiness.
Three tracks in particular indicate things to come.
"Wehrmut" is an ethereal synth piece with the pace slowed to a tantalizing crawl. "Steinsame" features a treated guitar playing a slow figure over a dark, almost funereal synth melody.
"Schone Hande" uses watery synth effects to highlight a shivery rhythm pattern. Other pieces dispense with moody atmospherics altogether.
Tracks like "Ho Renomo" and "Selange" consist mainly of pounding rhythm patterns lightly embellished by piano or synthesizer, and "Die Bunge" sounds like an electronic goldfinch fluttering around a cartoon horse.
While not the unqualified success of their 1978 collaboration After the Heat, Cluster & Eno remains an important album.
Along with Eno's 1978 Music for Films, these works helped define the depth and promise of ambient music.
This is the 20 bit remastering Japan version.

Artist: Eno, Moebius, Roedelius
P: 1978 / 2009
This album came from the same sessions which produced the 5 star masterpiece Cluster and Eno and the song By This River on Before and After Science. This is another splendid album, but it lacks the cohesiveness and sustained other worldly atmosphere of their previous release. It's also a rather more uptempo album a lot of the time, although the overall mood is still tranquil with some nagging dark undercurrents. One major difference between After The Heat and Cluster & Eno is the inclusion of Eno's vocal on a few tracks. This is particularly effective on T'Zima N'arki, which sounds as though Eno is singing his lyrics backwards or possibly is just singing nonsense syllables with bizarre inflections. This track also features Can's Holger Czukay on bass, and has some dub reggae styled sound effects - all in all, an oddly enjoyable musical confection. The Belldog, on the other hand, sounds like a track from an Eno solo album - a perfectly good song in its own right, but not quite in keeping with the rest of the album. The instrumental tracks mostly recall the spacy soundscapes of Cluster & Eno, which itself called to mind the best moments of Another Green World and Music for Films. After the Heat is a strong album from a remarkably productive collaboration, and is highly recommended.