Brian Eno
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Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 3 January 1976
EXPERIMENTAL AND AVANT-GARDE music, by its very nature, exists mainly in the fringe area of private pressings, such as the Musica or George Avakian productions ...
Another Glam World: Brian Eno’s Adventures in Roxy Music
Interview by Djuna Parnes, Rock's Backpages, June 2001
DP: What does the phrase "Glam Rock" mean to you? ...
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Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 13 January 1998
Eno talks about the early days of Roxy Music; the band's intersection with Glam; the impact of David Bowie; androgyny and flamboyance; leaving Roxy, and setting out on his solo career.
File format: mp3; file size: 33.5mb, interview length: 36' 36" sound quality: ** (phoner)
Interview by Mark Sinker, Rock's Backpages audio, Fall 1992
Pop's intellectual-in-chief on youth and cultural identity; the value of pretence and pretension; useful irony, contingency, and the accident of joining Roxy Music; problems of language; minimalism and the value of the recording studio; what "culture" means; deadlines; contributing to the cultural conversation; the importance of topicality; false impositions of cultural values; reading and hearing; criticism and empathy.
File format: mp3; file size: 86.9mb, interview length: 1h 30' 28" sound quality: ***
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Eno: "Zing!" Go the Strings of My Art...
Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 27 November 1976
...as Thin and Serious People gather to make music. The luscious but committed BRIAN ENO has been in recording with the skinny and deranged ...
Brian Eno: Another Day on Earth
Review by Alfred Soto, Stylus, 17 June 2005
FORGET THE PRE-RELEASE publicity: Brian Eno has not issued his first vocal album in almost 20 years; he has released an ambient album with vocals. ...
Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Harold Budd, Daniel Lanois: Music For Films (Land)
Review by Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 22 October 1988
LET'S NOT mince words; most of these ambienceurs are a fraud, trying to sell us insubstantial ideas that aren't worth listening to by simply turning ...
Tom Rogerson and Brian Eno: Finding Shore
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 13 December 2017
HIS BACKGROUND IN jazz, contemporary classical and avant-rock serves Three Trapped Tigers' Tom Rogerson well on what is effectively a solo piano album subjected to ...
Brian Eno: The Oblique Strategist
Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, June 1995
You’d like your album smoothly airbrushed with the minimum fuss, and expertly streamlined to slot into a tidy marketing profile? Don’t phone Brian Eno then. ...
Brian Eno: To Infinity and Beyond
Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, June 1998
THESE DAYS, you have to catch Brian Eno as and when you can. Always peripatetically inclined, he now spends even more time abroad — ...
Brian Eno: "So Why Are We Doing This?"
Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, May 2001
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT, observing Brian Eno's early career as furnisher of funny noises to the original Roxy Music, to predict that three decades ...
The Concise NME Guide To Electronic Music & Synthesised Sound
Guide by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 5 January 1980
"Progress in the physical and mechanical sciences determines a progress in art." — Carlos Chavez, 1957 ...
Brian Eno: Towards An Understanding of Pop Past and Present
Interview by Andy Gill, Q, November 1993
IN THE BIG room at Peter Gabriel's Real World studio down in Box, Wiltshire, Brian Eno holds court at an informal workshop involving himself and ...
Brian Eno: An Uncle, A Celebrity, A Masturbator
Book Excerpt by Ben Thompson, 'Ways of Hearing' , 2001
ON THE BACK cover of A Year with Swollen Appendices, Brian Eno's diary of 1995, he supplies a handy guide to some of the things ...
Brian Eno: 'Lady Gaga's Meat Dress? I Did It First'
Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, 22 November 2010
Fashion disasters, electronic music, even the Lib-Con coalition...The super-producer and former Roxy Music wizard saw it all coming ...
Eno, Phil Manzanera et al.: 801 Live
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, June 1977
I'D WAGER that the market for import albums is sustained primarily by fanciers of various exotic genres (Kraut-rock, pub-rock, punk-rock, zen-rock, bla-bla-bla). Some of this ...
Eno: Blank Frank — the Messenger of Doom
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 2 February 1974
The initials B.F. spell... think about it. Words by Caroline Boucher ...
Interview by Caroline Coon, Ritz, 1977
TODAY, SITTING FOR this interview at a white, formica-topped table in his Maida Vale flat, Brian Eno looks clean-cut enough to pass for the most ...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Texans like steak, oil-wells, large hats and Eno…
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 7 December 1974
WELL, I SUPPOSE we should start as we intend to continue. So come along, Eno, how does it feel to be just regarded as Good ...
Fripp & Eno: Palladium, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 14 June 1975
"IT'S NOT just an ordinary loop system. In fact, it's very complex. I invented it. Why don't you come and see me tomorrow and I'll ...
Everything You'd Rather Not Know About Eno
Interview by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 2 February 1974
IT WAS WITH a certain apprehensive curiosity that I first noticed the brown lace-up shoes. He displayed a normalcy that I just couldn't trust. After ...
Brian Eno: Into The Spirit World
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 26 July 1980
The White Man's Grave Look to Africa ...
Essay by Cynthia Rose, Harpers & Queen, 1979
Cynthia Rose looks at artist/musicians David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop (touring Britain this month) and the risks they are taking with electronics, Expressionism ...
Interview by Dave Rimmer, The Face, October 1980
One of the vital musical innovators of the Seventies, Brian Eno now inhabits a curious world. He lives in 'medieval' Manhattan, where he gambles on ...
Brian Eno: Only The Small Survive
Interview by Dave Rimmer, The Face, October 1982
One of the vital musical innovators of the Seventies, Brian Eno now inhabits a curious world. He lives in 'medieval' Manhattan, where he gambles on ...
Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 5 March 1981
Talking Heads is TV slang for people whose legs you never see. It's also the name of one of the finest groups in the world. ...
We Have Ways Of Making You Talk: Brian Eno
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 1997
...on Russia, Roxy and tennis players' bottoms ...
Daniel Lanois: Let the music speak
Interview by David Toop, The Times, 2 February 1990
David Toop meets Daniel Lanois, the hit producer of albums for U2, Peter Gabriel and Bob Dylan, now a performer himself on record and visiting ...
Essay by David Toop, Mixmag, October 1992
Ambient music: not just a soundtrack for the chill-out room, more a sound of the future. David Toop gets deep. Very deep. ...
Interview by Don Watson, Spin, May 1989
"IS THIS 1962 OR 20 YEARS ON?" asked the sleeve notes of the first Roxy Music LP, the record that introduced Brian Eno to the ...
The Business is an Exciting Mess: Brian Eno and David Byrne
Interview by Edward Helmore, The Guardian, 27 March 2009
DAVID BYRNE IS sitting outside the ladies parlour, upstairs at the Tampa theatre, one of the most spectacular 1920s movie palaces in the US, in ...
Brian Eno: Musical Revolutionary
Interview by Gene Santoro, Pulse!, March 1989
Stellar producer; influential recording artist; pioneering shaper of sound: BRIAN ENO is all of those things and more. ...
Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Interview, June 1978
BRIAN ENO was a founding member of ROXY MUSIC, the English band that more or less founded the Fine Art-Fashion-Rock and Roll fusion that continues ...
Interview by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 29 September 1984
Helen FitzGerald, the Emerald Isle's most astonishing export, gets all mysterious with ambient whizz-kid BRIAN ENO, who talks about life after the bush of ghosts, ...
Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt: Oblique Strategies
Review by Howard Wuelfing, New York Rocker, August 1979
DON'T BE AFRAID OF CLICHÉS ...
Talking Heads: More words about Eno and art
Interview by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 29 July 1978
Ian Birch meets Talking Heads ...
Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings And Food (Sire)
Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 15 July 1978
David Byrne (singing, guitars, synthesized percussion); Chris Frantz (drums, percussion); Jerry Harrison (piano, organs, synthesizer, guitar, background vocals); Tina Weymouth (bass) and Brian Eno (synthesizers, ...
Fripp and Eno: No Pussyfooting (HELP)
Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 27 October 1973
Sex of one, Eno of the other ...
Under the Influence: Eno of Roxy
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 10 March 1973
Velvets & Beethoven ...
Eno Part 1: Before and After Science — Accidents Will Happen
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 26 November 1977
Thinking about music with BRIAN ENO. Some monologues recorded and compiled by IAN MacDONALD. ...
Eno Part 2: Another False World — How to Make A Modern Record
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 3 December 1977
Thinking about music with BRIAN ENO. Some more monologues recorded and compiled by IAN MacDONALD. ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 1997
WHERE MOST folk in this business work on instinct, rarely pondering how to maximise their talent, supposing they have any, Eno is one of a ...
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 14 October 1978
"I'M NOT really interested in the quality of the film, what they furnish is an excuse to do some music...they're areas where I can experiment ...
Various Artists: No New York (Antilles Import)
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 16 December 1978
I WAS wearing headphones. My teeth were aching again, and the lump behind my left ear was still as bad as ever. All 16 of ...
Report and Interview by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 9 September 1995
IAN WATSON talks to the bands who are contributing to the Help album and how this project compares to pop's last major charity initiative, the ...
Kevin Ayers/John Cale/Eno/Nico: June 1, 1974 (Island)
Review by Ira Robbins, Zoo World, 10 October 1974
LIVE ALBUMS have become an abundant nuisance which bands seem to feel an obligation to produce every few years, often with no redeeming content. The ...
Eno, the Winkies: Greyhound, Croydon, London
Live Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 2 March 1974
IN THE CAR travelling back to London, Eno was making some excuses. The acoustics of the hall were terrible, he said, and the heat put ...
Eno: Discreet Music (Obscure); Another Green World (Island)
Review by James Wolcott, Creem, April 1976
NEARER MY ENO TO THEE ...
Gaz Coombes: The World's Strongest Fan
Interview by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, July 2018
Ever been curious about what's pumping on Gaz Coombes' stereo? RC's Jamie Atkins was, so he headed to Oxfordshire to find out. ...
Brian Eno Before And After Pop
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 13 July 1997
BRIAN ENO has a theory. Actually, Eno has lots of theories — the 48-year-old, English-born musician probably leads the rock 'n' roll league in this ...
Brian Eno: Music Without Compromise
Interview by John Hutchinson, Mix, February 1985
BRIAN ENO IS something of a paradox. He is at once associated with the avant-garde and an artist/producer who has actually had his share of ...
Brian Eno: A Year with Swollen Appendices (Faber & Faber)
Book Review by John L. Walters, The Wire, June 1996
NOTE: This is a "director's cut" version of John's review of Eno's book. ...
Eno: Another Green World (Island)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Phonograph Record, November 1975
UP UNTIL THE moment the temporary editor of this august journal telephoned to apprise me that he'd just been in a terrible automobile accident in ...
Review by John Mendelsohn, Phonograph Record, April 1975
UP UNTIL THE moment the temporary editor of this august journal telephoned to apprise me that he'd just been in a terrible automobile accident in ...
Interview by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 26 November 1993
Brian Eno used to wear leopard skin and make the synthesised squeaks and honks for Roxy Music. Now he's the venerable intellectual of pop ...
Interview by Jon Tiven, International Musician & Recording World, June 1975
Fripp's King Crimson brought a new meaning to the word "tight". For a short time the band represented a pinnacle of British rock achievement. Since ...
Brian Eno: The Jon Wilde Interview
Interview by Jon Wilde, Uncut, August 2005
UNCUT: When did you first realise you were strange? ...
Brian Eno: "How can Alastair Campbell have a TV career?"
Profile and Interview by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 16 May 2013
THE TOILETS OF the famous are centres of great significance. Liz Taylor was so used to guests snooping in hers, she filled the bathroom cabinet ...
Brian Eno: Containing Spontaneity
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Filter, October 2006
NOT JUST a few otherwise sophisticated human beings would likely feel less uneasy naked and unarmed in Northern Afghanistan than present in a room when ...
Interview by Kris Needs, Danny Baker, ZigZag, January 1978
YOU COULD SAY Brian Eno was pissed off on the day the dynamic Zigzag interviewing team were supposed to be interviewing him. Quite the opposite ...
In the Hot Seat with Larry LeBlanc: Brian Eno, musician, artist, producer, thinker
Interview by Larry LeBlanc, Celebrity Access, July 2018
IT IS APPARENT that there's no measure in contemporary culture to absolutely gauge Brian Eno. His staggering command of several creative disciplines places him alongside ...
Island Records: Treasure Island
Profile by Lenny Kaye, Hit Parader, January 1975
GIVEN THE commercial restrictions of the business we call music, it is the rare record company that is willing to lay itself on the line ...
David Bowie & Brian Eno: The Outside Story
Interview by Mac Randall, Mark Rowland, Musician, November 1995
DAVID BOWIE AND BRIAN ENO EXPLAIN IT ALL FOR YOU — by Mark Rowland ...
Taking Modern Culture By Strategy: Brian Eno
Essay by Mark Sinker, The Wire, October 1992
2005 note: It’s not a sensible criticism of a conjuror that his craft does not involve actual real magical powers. Eno is fascinated by the ...
Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets (Island ILPS 9628)
Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 16 February 1974
Iron Bean's nut cracker ...
Eno and John Cale: The Wild Bunch
Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 18 May 1974
Martin Hayman jumps into the Tardis, goes into the future with typewriter over his shoulder and ends up on the beach with Eno, Phil Manzanera and ...
Interview by Mary Harron, Punk, Summer 1977
Brian Eno is sitting in Island Records’ Basing Street Studios, London, with a piece of toast in his hand. He is working on an album: ...
Albums by Eno, Rosanne Cash et al
Review by Mary Harron, The Observer, 9 March 1986
BRIAN ENO: More Blank Than Frank (EG Records EGLP 65) ...
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Chic, July 1979
DURING THE YEAR prior to his first solo concert tour in 1975, Brian Eno's image alone sustained public interest in his career. ...
Essay by Michel Faber, The Guardian, 10 July 2006
GLEAMING METAL DOORS slide open noiselessly at the touch of a button, and I step into the secret subterranean studio of Brian Eno. The atmosphere ...
Interview by Mike Barnes, MOJO, March 2009
He was Roxy Music's synth-basher and the architect of ambient. Now outside-the-box boffin Brian Eno is working with U2 and Coldplay. "Producing is the best paid form ...
Robert Wyatt: Invisible Jukebox
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, December 1995
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Best of All Possible Musics: Michael Brook and Loop Guru mess with Eno
Report and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Eye Weekly, 26 July 1996
IN THE WORLD of ambient music, Brian Eno is god, the all-knowing, all-powerful genius of the recording studio. So omnipotent is Eno that his disciples ...
Brian Eno: Happiness Is A Warm Jet
Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 13 October 1973
...BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE LATEST RECORDED WORK OF MR. BRIAN ENO, LATE OF ROXY MUSIC, AND FEATURING BLANK FRANK, FRIEND OF THE MASSIVE MASSIMO ...
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 3 February 1973
ENO'S PLAYBOY bachelor flat in mystical Maida Vale possesses a decor that is God's own gift to a journalist caught for a good opening paragraph. ...
Eno: Of Launderettes And Lizard Girls
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 28 July 1973
...and things that go bump in Ladbroke Grove. Nick Kent stakes out Eno's closet ...
Hey, DJ — The chilled-out charms of ambient techno
Guide by Pat Blashill, Details, November 1993
RICHARD JAMES has seen the future and it's nothing special. In fact, it's nothing at all. Nothingness itself. Vast, blank wildernesses, majesticaly vague cityscapes, machines ...
Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, August 2001
After he left Roxy Music in 1973, Brian Eno became a key figure in the development of electronic music – in the nineties, NME ...
Brian Eno: Before and after Science (Polydor 2302 071)
Review by Paul Rambali, Trouser Press, February 1978
IT APPEARS the grandiosely titled Before and After Science did not come easy to the erudite Mr. Eno. It was first scheduled some 10 months ...
Eno & the Winkies: Civic Hall, Guildford
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 2 March 1974
BEFORE HIS Guildford concert with the Winkies last Wednesday, Eno told me: "I've tried rearranging the running order of the songs in all sorts of ...
Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets (Island ILPS 9268, £2.30) ****
Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 23 February 1974
I WAS BEGINNING to wonder if the Mad Mekon Of The Moog would ever justify the acres of coverage he's had since he left Roxy ...
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 2 March 1974
... or "Eno helps digest other people's music". Fox-Cumming gets on earful of warm jets. ...
Brian Eno, David Byrne: My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (Sire)
Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, June 1981
"You see, the problem is that people, particularly people who write, assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me ...
Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Nico & Eno: June 1,1974 (Island)
Review and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Creem, December 1974
Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Nico, Eno & the Soporifics: The Inmates Have Taken Over ...
Press Release by Richard Cromelin, Island Records, 1974
There isOne artNo moreNo lessTo doAll thingsWith art-Lessness– Piet Hein ...
Bryan Ferry: Another Time, Another Place; Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets
Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, August 1974
AS EXPECTED, Eno's first solo album is a sonically innovative and adventurous thing, boldly experimental in its employment of phasing, drones, repetition, shifting of layers, ...
Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, November 1974
"The reason I was attracted to the band in the first place was the contradiction of having someone like Eno and someone like Bryan in ...
Eno: The Soul Inside The Shades
Interview by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 24 April 1982
Richard Grabel practises the pussyfoot with Brian Eno, the father of electronic pop. ...
Crits fiddle while public burns...
Report by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 30 June 1979
Fripp, Eno and others debate the future of a species ...
Interview by Richard Grabel, The Face, January 1981
David Byrne talks guardedly about his collaboration with Brian Eno. Tina Weymouth talks candidly on the same subject. "By the time they had finished working ...
Brian Eno: Energy Fails The Magician
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 12 January 1980
After spending the last decade redefining rock music, all Brian Eno wants now is an honest job of work and a place to lay his ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 28 July 1973
"I was cramping Eno's style. Two non-musicians in a band is one too many. I think he'll do very well by himself" — BRYAN FERRY ...
Brian Eno: "When he sang, David Bowie became a different person"
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 23 July 2016
BRIAN ENO is Britain's favourite cultural polymath. He contributed a chime for a clock that will ring once every 10,000 years. He wrote a soundtrack ...
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Details, November 1992
The godfather of art rock and ambience discusses his sex drive, U2's sense of humor, and the future of music as we know it. ...
John Cage & Brian Eno: A Meeting of Sound Minds
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, September 1985
BRIAN ENO is waiting in the calm, green courtyard between his apartment and studio, just a short distance from London's trend-setting King's Road. Under the ...
Daniel Lanois: The Producer as Conscience
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, December 1986
"THERE'S A lot of pollution out there," says Daniel Lanois, drinking tea in the gazebo of his Santa Monica hotel one September morning, before continuing ...
Brian Eno: More Blank Than Frank (Jem)
Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 5 June 1986
AFTER BRIAN Eno left Roxy Music in 1973, he made four prophetic rock albums that incorporated unbalanced rhythms, random synthesizer noises, minimalist drones and whimsical, ...
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, November 1990
The teenage keyboard pioneer with the left-field dress sense evolved into the amiable egghead in the "gardening clothes". And in between – via the avant-garde, ...
Brian Eno: The Quiet Man Of Pop Rocks Out
Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 16 June 2005
Brian Eno, pioneer of gentle, ambient music, tells Robert Sandall why living in the country has made him want to get noisy. ...
Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Nico, Eno: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 8 June 1974
Ayers puts the A in ACNE ...
Eno: The Life of Brian in the Bush of Ghosts
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 7 March 1981
BRIAN ENO, currently working on two new albums, is many things to a lot of men. ...
Eno: The Monkey Wrench Of Rock Creates Happy Accidents On Tiger Mt.
Profile and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, April 1975
One day Eno is going to formulate a theory that will make music melt out of the North Pole (maybe he'll do it with mirrors), ...
Brian Eno: Before and After Science
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 10 December 1977
REACTIONS: 1) Am I happy or sad that other rock music has finally caught up with Eno? He has won his battle to make ...
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 5 February 1977
"I was trying to think of some inventions, so I tried to think of what I needed. But I don't need anything. That's the difficulty, ...
Roxy Music: Country Life/Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, March 1976
WOMEN, ON ROXY MUSIC covers, are like plants: lush vegetation, only more so. Unlike the reclining femme fatale on the cover of Stranded, who I've ...
Roxy Music: Country Life (Atlantic)/Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Island)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, March 1975
WOMEN, ON Roxy Music covers, are like plants: lush vegetation, only more so. Unlike the reclining femme fatale on the cover of Stranded, who I've ...
Bowie Now: New Songs for Day and Night
Report and Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 28 February 1977
THESE ARE the facts:David Bowie's latest album, Low, is two-sided. Side One contains seven crypto-disco tracks, no track shorter than 1:42 or longer than 3:26. ...
Brian Eno/Rick Holland: Drums Between The Bells
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, July 2011
IT'S HARD TO know what's more surprising: the fact a man approaching his mid-60s continues to release groundbreaking music in such quantities that this is ...
see also Roxy Music
see also Roger Eno
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