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Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, sometimes simply Eno, (born May 15, 1948), is an electronic musician who started his musical career with Roxy Music. He then went on to produce a number of highly eclectic and increasingly ambient electronic and acoustic albums. He is widely cited as coining the term "ambient music" in his Ambient series (Music for Airports, The Plateaux of Mirror, Day of Radiance and On Land).
He collaborated with David Byrne, formerly of Talking Heads, on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts which was one of the first albums not in the rap or hip hop genres to extensively feature sampling. Eno collaborated with David Bowie as a writer and musician on Bowie's influential "Berlin trilogy" of albums, Low, Heroes and Lodger, on Bowie's later album 1. Outside, and on the song "I'm Afraid of Americans". Eno has also collaborated with Robert Fripp of King Crimson, Robert Wyatt on his Shleep CD, with Jon Hassell and with the German duo Cluster.
Eno has acted as a producer for a number of bands, including U2 and James. He won the best producer award at the 1994 and 1996 BRIT awards. He is an innovator across many fields of music and recently he has collaborated on the development of the Koan algorithmic music generator. He has also been involved in the field of visual arts. The band A Certain Ratio took their name from the lyrics of Eno's song "The True Wheel" (on Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy).
In 1996 Brian Eno, and others, started the Long Now Foundation to educate the public into thinking about the very long term future of society. Brian Eno is also a columnist for the British newspaper, The Observer.
Discography
- 1973 No Pussyfooting (with Robert Fripp)
- 1974 Here Come The Warm Jets
- 1974 Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
- 1975 Evening Star (with Robert Fripp)
- 1975 Another Green World
- 1975 Discreet Music
- 1978 Before and After Science
- 1978 Ambient #1 / Music for Airports
- 1978 Music for Films
- 1980 Ambient #2 / The Plateaux of Mirror (with Harold Budd)
- 1981 Ambient #3 / Day of Radiance
- 1981 My Life In The Bush of Ghosts (with David Byrne)
- 1982 Ambient #4 / On Land
- 1983 Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
- 1984 The Pearl (With Harold Budd)
- 1990 The Shutov Assembly
- 1990 Wrong Way Up (with John Cale)
- 1992 Nerve Net
- 1993 Neroli
- 1995 Spinner (with Jah Wobble)
- 1997 The Drop
- Textures
- 2001 Drawn From Life (with Peter Schwalm)