In 1973, fed up with Bryan Ferry's domineering in Roxy Music, Eno leapt into a solo career that would find him championing the "art" in "artifice." 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    [ read more ]

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"Continuing the twisted pop explorations of 'Here Come the Warm Jets,' Eno's sophomore album, 'Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy),' is more subdued and cerebral, and a bit darker when he does cut loose, but it's no less thrilling once the music reveals itself. It's a loose concept album -- often inscrutable, but still playful -- about espionage, the Chinese Communist revolution, and dream associations, with the more stream-of-consciousness lyrics beginning to resemble the sorts of random connections made i   [ read more ]

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"Before and After Science is really a study of 'studio composition' whereby recordings are created by deconstruction and elimination: tracks are recorded and assembled in layers, then selectively subtracted one after another, resulting in a composition and sound quite unlike that at the beginning of the process. Despite the album's pop format, the sound is unique and strays far from the mainstream. Eno also experiments with his lyrics, choosing a sound-over-sense approach. When mixed with the music,    [ read more ]

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Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts appears downright visionary. With its "found" vocals, cut-and-paste arrangements, funked-up rhythms and embrace of influences from all around the globe, the duo's controversial work anticipated the creative cross-pollination and technological innovation of contemporary dance music, world music, hip hop and alternative rock. You can hear echoes of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in the anthems Moby built around vintage vocal samples, in th   [ read more ]

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Music For Airports was Ambient 1 -Discreet must have been less than zero - and to some extent it was conceived as an aid for those with a fear of flying, or certainly a fear of crashing, or perhaps just a feeling of anxiety about whether they will ever see their luggage again, something to be piped over the intercoms at airports. It was a simple, sophisticated opposition to the traditional commercial idea of muzak that seemed to ignore or deflate the senses, a form of background music that not only created    [ read more ]

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In 1982, Eno completed what is for the sake of this release schedule the Ambient Library. On Land is Ambient 4, and it's music that is about something. It's about Eno being down to earth and ridiculously exotic, extremely charming and rather strange. It's about the places you've been, the places you think you've been, the places you'll never get to go to. It's about time before time and time after time. Its classical music liberated by the pop idea that sound doesn't have to be so deliberately cut off from    [ read more ]

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The Limited Edition 77 Million Paintings features an exclusive interview DVD in which Brian Eno discusses his creation of the 77 Million Paintings software, the next evolutionary stage of his exploration into light as an artist's medium and the aesthetic possibilities of "generative software." This program creates a constantly evolving, slowly changing "light painting" on the screen of your computer or TV with a virtually infinite number of variations accompanied by the music of Brian Eno. T   [ read more ]

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One of the best ambient classics. The darkest of Eno's ambient work. Released in 1982, Amobiet 4: On Land" is Eno's most mature, perfect ambient work. Combining low, rumbling synths with eerie banging and clanking and the occasional wild-animal chirp or grumble, this recording places the listener alone, in the midst of a massive piece of sonic landscaping. And Eno has left no detail to chance. In fact, the work is so complete that when Eno suggests a windswept plain, the listener gets a chill. When trumpete   [ read more ]

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Music originally recorded in 1983 for the Academy Award nominated Apollo 11 moon mission documentary For All Mankind. Eno's best selling album after Music For Airports. Daniel Lanois' distinctive, pedal guitar work heard on Apollo became a major influence on U2's The Edge. Since then, U2 have used Lanois' guitar sound throughout their career even on their latest album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, where Lanois' plays pedal steel on the song 'One Step Closer'.

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Brian Eno emerges with Another Day on Earth, his first solo recording of "conventional" songs since Another Green World. Eno continues to show his studio prowess composing lush tracks filled with great detail. Also found in the under layers of Another Green World are remnants of his signature ambient sound of earlier years, only this time around the format has changed to cater to his lyrical needs. This is a great return!

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ESSENTIAL. It's amazing to think that this was recorded in 1978. It sounds timeless. This LP exercised a huge influence on an entire generation of ambient music, and it still sounds more interesting than most. While sonically similar to "Music for Airports," the brevity of these tracks works in its favor. None outstay their welcome, whereas with "Music for Airports," one's mind can wander (though you might argue that that's precisely the objective -- in his original sleevenotes, Eno suggests that all of the   [ read more ]

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Released in 1981, "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" is a collaboration between ambient pioneer Brian Eno and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. On "Ghosts," the two strong-willed musicians manage to come to a meeting of the minds, blending Byrne's herky-jerky funk with Eno's atmospheric sound sculpting. More than anything, this is a large album, intent on pushing itself to the front of the listener's consciousness. Abundant percussion (everything from booming tribal drums to eerie electronics) reverberates i   [ read more ]

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