Roger Eno's first album continues in the vein of the songs he wrote for Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. Using piano and broad washes of synths, some treated by older brother Brian Eno, the younger Eno's pieces are slow, contemplative works of minimalism, similar to Erik Satie's "Gymnopedies." Yet the composer he is most similar to on Voices is labelmate Harold Budd, who also paints from the same palette. Daniel Lanois's production simply balances these elements and gives them   [ read more ]

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A delicate, bittersweet pairing of Eno's bare and deceptively simple melodies with chamber music accompaniment, Eno's second solo album continues in the moods established on Voices, yet also throws in nods to spaghetti Westerns on "Dust at Dawn (The Last Cowboy in the West)" and "Autumn." Neither is Eno afraid to bend a little toward romanticism in his arrangements, in this way separating him from Harold Budd and forming a style all his own. Michael Brook produces and keeps the instr   [ read more ]

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A deadpan joke of the fashion so beloved by a certain subset of classical music aficionados, Roger Eno's 1996 album The Music of Neglected English Composers creates eight composers from the 17th century to the 1990s out of whole cloth and then ascribes several brief compositions to each of them. It's all a put-on, of course -- the Goon Show-like liner notes should be enough to clue in even the most credulous of readers -- but The Music of Neglected English Composers is nonetheless one of {$En   [ read more ]

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Recorded over a six-month period in his Suffolk studio, Roger Eno's album Long Walk contains many of the ambient landscapes that have defined his career. Spiritual and spare, the album contains many minimal pieces along with more detailed and complex compositions. The younger brother of the more famous Brian Eno, Roger has shown with this album and others that he is capable of unique expressions of his own. ~ Stacia Proefrock, All Music Guide

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A delicate, bittersweet pairing of Eno's bare and deceptively simple melodies with chamber music accompaniment, Eno's second solo album continues in the moods established on Voices, yet also throws in nods to spaghetti Westerns on "Dust at Dawn (The Last Cowboy in the West)" and "Autumn." Neither is Eno afraid to bend a little toward romanticism in his arrangements, in this way separating him from Harold Budd and forming a style all his own. Michael Brook produces and keeps the instr   [ read more ]

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Roger Eno's Swimming is a rather drastic departure from his more classically oriented and purposely ambient work. Rather, it is a series of 14 songs, eight of which are vocal, and three of which are his versions of traditional tunes. The overtone of the entire proceeding is quiet, graced with a simple elegance illustrated with acoustic and electric guitars, basses, pianos, keyboards, vibes, other delicate percussion and subdued synthesizers emulating a skeletal string section. What is striking -   [ read more ]

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He probably hates it when people say this, but Roger Eno's compositions do often sound an awful lot like those of his brother Brian -- though it must be said that Roger is by far the more sophisticated musician and composer. On The Flatlands, the more obvious influence is actually fellow chamber experimentalist Harold Budd. What with the sweet, poignant string writing and the unobstrusive piano arpeggios, there's a deep wistfulness about this music that seems to evoke another time and place.    [ read more ]

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This double-disc set features contemporary composer Roger Eno, playing solo piano late at night in England's famous London Cathedral without an audience. These 23 pieces range form just over three minutes to just over eight, and rely as much on the acoustics of the venue as the compositions themselves for their ambience and subtle colors and shades. Touching on classical, jazz, and new age in his playing, Eno weaves a spellbinding set of tunes that inspire and elucidate silence itself. The   [ read more ]

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The Familiar is the first meeting between composer, multi-instrumentalist, and arranger Roger Eno -- yes, brother of Brian -- and singer, lyricist, and woodwind player Kate St. John of the Dream Academy. St. John's lyrics and voice adorn five of the 13 songs here, the rest feature Roger Eno's piano accompanied in various settings, some with woodwinds and strings, such as the haunting and lovely "The Wonderful Year," a small chamber piece that contains a gorgeous cello solo by {$Sa   [ read more ]

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