Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Brian Eno is an English musician, born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, in May of 1948. According to Mark Edwards article in Motion Magazine, Brian Eno was a founder member of Roxy Music, manipulating sounds on their debut album and the legendary For Your Pleasure. Leaving Roxy Music in 1973, he began his solo career with the album Here Come The Warm Jets. According to Ektal123's video Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution, Brian Eno had been drawn to the distinctive sounds emerging from Germany. That interest would bring him and David Bowie, pop icon, to working together in late 1976 on a series of albums that would bring this experimentalist to the main screen. Eno had already been making his mark in experimental music and the move to Germany seem like a natural progression. He incorporated tape delaying in his music. 
According to the biography.com article, Brian Eno began experimenting with electronic music in the late 1960s. As a producer and musician, he helped define/revamp the sound of some blockbuster musical acts of the 1980s and 1990s, including U2, and the Talking Heads. Eno created the genre of ambient music, using it to define his sound as a solo artist and later to producer records for such bands as Coldplay. 


According to Jason Ankeny article Brian Eno, A 1975 car accident which left Eno bedridden for several months resulted in perhaps his most significant innovation, the creation of ambient music: unable to move to turn up his stereo to hear above the din of a rainstorm, he realized that music could assume the same properties as light or color, and blend thoroughly into its given atmosphere without upsetting the environmental balance. Heralded by the release of 1975's minimalist Another Green World, Eno plunged completely into ambient with his next instrumental effort, Discreet Music, the first chapter in a ten-volume series of experimental works issued on his own Obscure label.

Brian Eno has had a great impression on me as a listener and as an industry professional. I love to use ambient sounds in my productions and many of my favorite songs and albums have been influenced by Brian Eno’s experimental creation.

References:


Etal123, (2009) Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution. Retrieved from http://www.veoh.com/watch/v17166226D39Jw7dc


Ankeny, Jason (1997). Brian Eno. AllMusic. Retrieved from http://www.allmusic.com/artist/brian-eno-p74178/biography




Edwards (1996, July 7). Brian Eno Biography. Motion Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/eno2.html


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