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 Brian Eno is the consummate musical Renaissance man — groundbreaking musician, inspiring producer and all-round pop visionary. From the early neo-glam of Roxy Music to his genre-bending ambient work to the classic rock albums of David Bowie, Talking Heads, U2 and Coldplay among others, Eno has pulled the strings behind many of rock’s most vital and influential trends.
Eno was drawn to contemporary composers like John Cage, Steve Reich and Terry Riley while still in art school, and played with a number of avant-garde outfits before joining Roxy Music, his synthesizer adding urgency and frisson to Bryan Ferry’s languid vocals. He left after two albums to pursue a solo and production career, and his first effort, No Pussyfooting, with guitarist Robert Fripp, introduced the legendary "Frippertronics," a series of guitar loop delays that became a foundation for modern sampling.
Eno’s solo albums include the avant-pop of Here Come the Warm Jets and Before and After Science, and the abstract motifs of Taking Tiger Mountain and Another Green World, the start of a mightily definitive catalog of ambient sonic landscapes including Discreet Music to Music for Films and Music for Airports. Eno also became a highly regarded producer for Bowie (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) and Talking Heads. In collaboration with Daniel Lanois, Eno produced a series of records for U2, including The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby, and continues to work with modern artists from John Cale to Coldplay, while pursuing multi-media projects, such as the sound design for music video game “Spore.”
In 2008, Eno reunited with Heads frontman David Byrne — with whom he recorded the milestone My Life in the Bush of Ghosts — on a new collaboration entitled Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, which he describes as journey through “electronic gospel.”
Provenance: Woodbridge, England
Latest Release: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008)
© 2008 Nigel Music Media LLC. Used by permission.
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