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Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI (/ˈn/; born 15 May 1948 and originally christened Brian Peter George Eno), professionally known as Brian Eno or simply Eno, is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist. Born in Suffolk, Eno attended art school in the late 1960s, where he studied under Roy Ascott and took inspiration from minimalist painting, cybernetics, and experimental music techniques. In 1970, he joined the band Roxy Music first as a technical consultant and later as synthesiser player. The group's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon became tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry, leaving the group in 1973 to record a series of innovative solo albums that would explore various styles and help pioneer ambient music.

Eno has also worked as an influential collaborator and music producer. Throughout the 1970s, he collaborated with Robert Fripp on a series of proto-ambient LPs, David Bowie on his late 1970s "Berlin Trilogy," avant-garde musicians Jon Hassell and Harold Budd on several respective projects, and David Byrne on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (released 1981). During this period, he also produced the "No Wave" compilation No New York (1978), three albums by New York post-punk group Talking Heads, and albums by new wave bands Devo and Ultravox, among others. In subsequent decades, he has produced or worked on albums by U2, James, Laurie Anderson, Coldplay, Paul Simon, Grace Jones, James Blake and Slowdive. Eno has also pursued multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, including sound and art installations as well as his mid-1970s development with Peter Schmidt of "Oblique Strategies", a deck of cards featuring cryptic aphorisms intended to break creative blocks and encourage lateral thinking.

Eno has been described as "one of popular music's most important and influential figures." A self-described "non-musician," Eno has advocated a methodology of "theory over practice" throughout his career and helped to pioneer a variety of novel production techniques and approaches, playing an important role in the development of ambient, electronic, worldbeat, chance, and generative music styles. He continues to release music, produce, and write, and maintains a regular column in Prospect Magazine.

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Genres electronic ambient rock experimental art rock

Albums

  1. Here Come the Warm Jets
    1973
  2. Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)
    1974
  3. Another Green World
    1975
  4. Discreet Music
    1975
  5. Cluster & Eno
    1977
  6. Before and After Science
    1977
  7. After the Heat
    1978
  8. Ambient 1: Music for Airports
    1978
  9. Music for Films
    1978
  10. In a Land of Clear Colours
    1979
  11. Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
    1980
  12. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    1980
  13. Fourth World, Volume 1: Possible Musics
    1980
  14. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    1981
  15. Ambient 4: On Land
    1982
  16. Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
    1983
  17. The Pearl
    1984
  18. Thursday Afternoon
    1985
  19. Textures
    1989
  20. Wrong Way Up
    1990
  21. My Squelchy Life
    1991
  22. Nerve Net
    1992
  23. The Shutov Assembly
    1992
  24. Neroli
    1993
  25. Headcandy
    1994
  26. Spinner
    1995
  27. Generative Music I
    1996
  28. Music for White Cube: London, 1997
    1997
  29. Tracks & Traces
    1997
  30. Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace
    1997
  31. The Drop
    1997
  32. I dormienti
    1999
  33. Music for Civic Recovery Centre
    2000
  34. Music for 陰陽師
    2000
  35. Drawn From Life
    2001
  36. Music for Prague
    2001
  37. Long Now
    2002
  38. January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now
    2003
  39. Curiosities, Volume 2
    2004
  40. More Music for Films
    2005
  41. Another Day on Earth
    2005
  42. 77 Million
    2006
  43. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
    2008
  44. Making Space
    2010
  45. Small Craft on a Milk Sea
    2010
  46. Drums Between the Bells
    2011
  47. LUX
    2012
  48. Someday World
    2014
  49. High Life
    2014
  50. The Ship
    2016
  51. Reflection (excerpt)
    2017

Other releases

  1. Television With Bryan Eno
    1974
  2. June 1, 1974
    1974
  3. The Jezebel Spirit
    1981
  4. Begegnungen
    1984
  5. Old Land
    1985
  6. Begegnungen II
    1985
  7. Desert Island Selection
    1986
  8. More Blank Than Frank
    1986
  9. Spinning Away
    1990
  10. One Word
    1991
  11. Fractal Zoom
    1992
  12. Ali Click
    1992
  13. Dali's Car
    1993
  14. Eno Box: Vocal
    1993
  15. Eno Box I: Instrumental
    1993
  16. Brian Eno I & II Sampler
    1994
  17. A Year
    1998
  18. Kite Stories
    1999
  19. Sonora
    1999
  20. Compact Forest Proposal
    2001
  21. Pellisero Wine
    2002
  22. Brian Eno
    2003
  23. Curiosities, Volume 1
    2003
  24. An Ending (Ascent) (Leama & Moor Rmx)
    2004
  25. Everything That Happens Will Happen on This Tour
    2009
  26. ’76 Remixes
    2009
  27. "Drums Between the Bells" Sessions
    2011
  28. Panic of Looking
    2011
  29. Brian Eno x Nicolas Jaar x Grizzly Bear
    2013
  30. Live in Paris: 28.05.1975
    2014
  31. Chain
    2015