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Brian Eno is an art-rock icon, an ambient music pioneer, an avant-garde composer, and a producer who's collaborated with icons like U2 and David Bowie. Born in 1948, Eno first stepped into the spotlight in the early '70s as the radical keyboardist for glam rockers Roxy Music. After launching his prolific solo career in '73, Eno split his time between experimental electronic music and offbeat pop songs, often blurring the lines between the two. Captivating and challenging, Eno's music offers adventurous listeners a wealth of quirky hooks, gorgeous melodies, and innovative ideas. - Brian Eno has played in bands, produced hitmakers, made generative apps; the throughline is a belief in the creative potential of electronic sound. Before he formalized the idea of ambient, his work with David Bowie stripped art rock down to hazy minimalism (“Warszawa”); he also laced Harmonia’s pastoral Krautrock with ethereal electronic tones (“Welcome”). His most famous creation is ambient, that bewitching strain of environmental sound he famously deemed “as ignorable as it is interesting,” but the occasional track like “2 Forms of Anger” shows he’s not afraid of grabbing listeners by the lapels, either.
- It's hard to name a modern musician whose work hasn't been influenced in some way by Brian Eno's sonic innovations. As a genre-bending songwriter and studio experimentalist, he's left a mark on everything from post-punk and indie rock to industrial music and hip-hop. With his pioneering electronic music style, high-profile collaborations (U2, David Bowie, Talking Heads), and invention of ambient music, Eno has been responsible, directly or indirectly, for inspiring dozens of artists and producers, including synth-pop bands, disco auteurs, IDM eccentrics, and new age stars.
- From his time with glitter-rock sensations Roxy Music to inventing ambient music as we know it, Brian Eno is a force of nature in modern rock. But his most important work has arguably been as a producer. Introducing jittering electronic textures and evocative synths to records by U2 and David Bowie, Eno has been responsible for many artists' best songs.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
- Brian Eno brought experimental ideas into the world of pop, taking inspiration from musicians who blazed their own paths. Plug into the sounds that shaped Eno's vision with this mind-bending mix. It features psychedelic rockers, avant-garde composers, world music innovators, and artists who used cutting-edge technology to create radical new sounds, much like Eno himself.
- Eno plays well with others, and many of this art-popper's hidden treasures, like the spooky analogue synth treatments he brought to Roxy Music on songs such as "For Your Pleasure," involve innovative collaborations. He created chummy cabaret rock like "Empty Frame" with John Cale and, alongside David Byrne, inspired a tsunami of preacher-sampling tracks in 1981 with "America Is Waiting."
- Underneath the surface of Eno's ambient work is a diverse set of collaborations. He's created high-BPM delirium with Karl Hyde (“Dbf”) and worked with Public Image Ltd bassist Jah Wobble on the dub-influenced swayer, Spinner. The collaborative spirit refreshed Eno's own solo act, resulting in surprises like “Disturbed Being,” which swings from jazzy timbres to art rock fireworks.