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| Brian Eno |
The release of a new album by Brian Eno gives me the opportunity to dedicate a show to him. I discovered Eno about 4 years ago and have being playing catch-up ever since. The man's talents and achievements are legendary. He just seems to have a brilliant perspective on the world that leads to fascinating art and culture generally. For me his music was the rainbow bridge, taking my ears from the grey Ragnarok of indie music to the kaleidoscopic Valhalla of prog-psych-ambient etc.
Check out this talk he gave with game designer Will Wright. He just throws out these incredible insights such as "Reggae and Dub is taking things away".
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| Eno in his natural habitat |
Always an innovator he is possibly the world's most famous music producer. While his solo projects are very experimental, ranging from 70's glam pioneer to new age ambient and electronica, Eno is never condescending or self-centred. His left bank and oddball style doesn't stop him from working with mainstream artists. One gets the feeling that he is all about process. In fact he is the personification of genuine humility and has a great sense of humour.
Ambient music, electronica, oblique strategies, the Long Now Foundation: all Eno projects. I am pretty sure he has also cured a water-bourne disease, saving millions of Tasmanian lives, and is credited with he inventing the oboe and the artisinal tuna sandwich. He has also found time to create 77 million paintings.
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| Eno getting his Roxy Music glam on. |
Please check out the Robot News link below for info on the Clock of the Long Now. It is a symbolic project to develop very long-term thinking by designing a clock that will keep good time and chime once a day for 10, 000 years with almost no human assistance. Mr Eno designed the chime sequence which will generate a unique series of tones, every day, for a hundred centuries.
Played List
Artist - Track - Album
Brian Eno and Rick Holland - Sounds of Alien Events - Drums Between the Bells
Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache - For Your Pleasure
Brian Eno - The True Wheel - Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
Brian Eno - No One Receiving - Before and After Science
Brian Eno and Rick Holland - Glitch - Drums Between the Bells
Robert Calvert - Voyaging to Vinland - Lucky Leif and the Longships
David Bowie and Brian Eno - African Night Flight - Lodger
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In the Bush of Ghosts - Regiment
Jane Siberry - Sail Across the Water - When I Was A Boy
Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno - Under Stars II - Appollo - Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Brian Eno - Prophecy Theme - Dune, The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Brian Eno - On Some Faraway Beach - Here Come the Warm Jets
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