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Brian Eno
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Brian Eno ( EE-no; born Brian Peter George Eno, 15 May 1948) is an English musician, record producer and artist. He is known for his pioneering contributions to ambient and generative music, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. He describes himself as a "non-musician" uninterested in virtuosity, and advocates for using the studio as a compositional tool. He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures.
Eno was born in Melton, Suffolk and studied at Ipswich School of Art and the Winchester School of Art. He joined the glam rock band Roxy Music in 1971, contributing to their first two albums, and left in 1973. With the guitarist Robert Fripp, he recorded (No Pussyfooting) (1973) using tape-delay and reel-to-reel loops. In 1974, Eno released his first solo albums, Here Come the Warm Jets and Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). His third album, Another Green World (1975), combined rock with minimal instrumental tracks. Eno coined the term "ambient music" to describe music he conceived to be "as ignorable as possible", and released a string of albums in the genre, including Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1979) and, with his brother Roger and Daniel Lanois, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (1983).
Eno contributed to the David Bowie albums Low (1977), Heroes (1977) and Lodger (1979), known as the Berlin Trilogy, and produced the Talking Heads albums More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978), Fear of Music (1979) and Remain in Light (1980). Eno and Lanois produced U2's albums The Unforgettable Fire (1984), The Joshua Tree (1987) and Achtung Baby (1991), which were multi-platinum hits. He composed the Microsoft Sound, the startup sound for Windows 95. Eno produced Coldplay's album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, the highest-selling album of 2008, and co-wrote their next album, Mylo Xyloto (2011). Eno has also collaborated with acts including John Cale, Devo, James, Laurie Anderson, Karl Hyde and Fred Again.
Rolling Stone's 2023 list of the 500 greatest albums includes two Eno albums, plus several he created with Roxy Music, Bowie, Devo, Talking Heads and U2. In 2019, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music. He is an activist on behalf of humanitarian, environmental, anti-war and pro-Palestinian causes and is a founding member of the Long Now Foundation.
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Brian Eno [ˈbɹaɪən ˈiːnoʊ], nom de scène de Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, né plus simplement Brian Peter George Eno le 15 mai 1948 à Woodbridge (Suffolk, Angleterre), est un musicien, arrangeur et producteur britannique. Eno s'est décrit comme un « non-musicien » et a contribué à introduire une variété d'approches conceptuelles et de techniques d'enregistrement dans la musique contemporaine, prônant une méthodologie de « la théorie sur la pratique, la sérendipité sur la prévoyance et la texture sur l'artisanat » selon AllMusic. Il a été décrit comme l'une des personnalités les plus influentes et les plus novatrices de la musique, l'avant-garde autant que la populaire.
Né dans le Suffolk, Eno a étudié la peinture et la musique expérimentale à l'école d'art de l'Ipswich Civic College au milieu des années 1960, puis à la Winchester School of Art. En 1971, il a rejoint le groupe de glam rock Roxy Music, d'abord en tant que technicien son, puis comme joueur de synthétiseur. Après avoir participé aux deux premiers albums de Roxy Music, il quitte le groupe en 1973 pour enregistrer plusieurs disques en solo, inventant le terme « musique ambient » pour décrire son travail dans des albums tels que Discreet Music (1975) et Music for Airports (1978). Il a également collaboré avec des artistes tels que Daniel Lanois, Robert Fripp, Icehouse, Cluster, Harold Budd, David Bowie pour la trilogie berlinoise et David Byrne, et a produit de nombreux albums comme ceux de U2, John Cale, Jon Hassell, Laraaji, Talking Heads et Devo.
Eno a continué à enregistrer des albums solo et à travailler avec des artistes tels que Laurie Anderson, Genesis — pour qui il a fait les traitements de la voix de Peter Gabriel sur l'album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway — Grace Jones, Slowdive, Coldplay, Damon Albarn ou James Blake. Depuis ses débuts en tant qu'étudiant, il s'intéresse à l'art conceptuel, à la vidéo et au multimédia, y compris les installations sonores. Il a co-développé au milieu des années 1970 le jeu de cartes Stratégies obliques, contenant des aphorismes cryptiques destinés à stimuler la pensée créatrice. À partir des années 1970, certaines installations d'Eno ont été projetées sur les voiles de l'opéra de Sydney en 2009, et le télescope Lovell de l'Observatoire de Jodrell Bank en 2016. Défenseur de nombreuses causes humanitaires, Eno écrit sur divers sujets et fait partie des membres fondateurs de l'organisation The Long Now Foundation.
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Discography
Albums
- 1973 Here Come the Warm Jets
- 1974 Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)
- 1975 Another Green World
- 1975 Discreet Music
- 1977 Cluster & Eno
- 1977 Before and After Science
- 1978 After the Heat
- 1978 Ambient 1: Music for Airports
- 1978 Music for Films
- 1979 In a Land of Clear Colours
- 1980 Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
- 1980 My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
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- 1980 Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics
- 1981 My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
- 1982 Ambient 4: On Land
- 1983 Music for Films, Volume 2
- 1983 Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
- 1984 The Pearl
- 1985 Hybrid
- 1985 Thursday Afternoon
- 1989 Textures
- 1990 Wrong Way Up
- 1991 My Squelchy Life
- 1992 Shutov Demos & Unreleased
- 1992 Nerve Net
- 1992 The Shutov Assembly
- 1993 Neroli
- 1994 Headcandy
- 1995 Spinner
- 1996 June 1, 1974 Outtakes
- 1996 More Generative Music
- 1996 More Generative Music
- 1996 Generative Music I
- 1997 “Lightness”: Music for the Marble Palace
- 1997 Contra 1.2
- 1997 Music for White Cube: London, 1997
- 1997 The Drop
- 1999 I dormienti
- 2000 Music for Civic Recovery Centre
- 2000 Music for 陰陽師
- 2001 Music for Prague
- 2001 Drawn From Life
- 2002 Long Now
- 2003 January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now
- 2003 Curiosities, Volume I
- 2004 Curiosities, Volume II
- 2005 14 Video Paintings
- 2005 Another Day on Earth
- 2006 77 Million
- 2008 Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
- 2010 Making Space
- 2010 Small Craft on a Milk Sea
- 2011 Drums Between the Bells
- 2012 LUX
- 2014 Someday World
- 2014 High Life
- 2016 The Ship
- 2017 Reflection
- 2017 Sisters
- 2017 Finding Shore
- 2020 Dokument #2
- 2020 Mixing Colours
- 2020 Amsterdam Festival 1999
- 2022 FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
- 2023 Discreet Music / Music for Airports / Thursday Afternoon
- 2023 Secret Life
- 2025 Aurum
- 2025 Lateral
- 2025 Luminal
- 2025 Liminal
- 2026 2 Slow Stories
EPs
- 1983 Rarities
- 1990 Ring of Fire / Shuffle Down to Woodbridge / Merry Christmas
- 1998 A Year
- 1999 Kite Stories
- 2001 Compact Forest Proposal
- 2002 Pellisero Wine
- 2011 Panic of Looking
- 2020 Luminous
- 2020 Film Music: Crime Pays