Latest Release
- MAR 22, 2024
- 1 Song
- Through The Blue (Piano Version) - Single · 2023
- Mixing Colours · 2020
- The Skies, they shift like chords… · 2023
- Mixing Colours · 2020
- The Turning Year – Rarities · 2022
- Mixing Colours (Expanded) · 2020
- The Turning Year · 2022
- Eno (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2024
- The Turning Year · 2022
- Mixing Colours (Expanded) · 2020
Essential Albums
- Recorded in 1983 to accompany a documentary about the moon landing, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks is the most accessible of all of Brian Eno’s ambient works. (Originally titled Apollo, it was later recut and rereleased as For All Mankind.) Though the music at times seems effortless and even plainspoken, it's the result of a tight-knit exchange among three individuals: Eno, his brother Roger, and Canadian producer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Lanois (whose Toronto studio served as the location for these recordings). The music is at once darker and groovier than Eno’s previous ambient works. It's also incredibly modernistic. To this day, “An Ending (Ascent)” frequently appears on the soundtracks of major movies, while tracks like “Under Stars,” “Drift,” and “Signals” presaged the sound of electronic music in '90s (minus the breakbeats). While artists like Aphex Twin owe a lot to this album, its best songs are unlike anything else in the electronic canon. The final five songs are essential. Led by Lanois’ pedal steel playing, they sound like sublime country-and-western instrumentals floating in zero gravity.
Compilations
About Roger Eno
Roger Eno has produced a wide variety of ambient and modern classical music, as well as film and television scores. While he initially gained notice through collaborations with his more famous older brother, Brian, Roger was formally trained as a musician, and his compositions tend to be harmonically richer -- early on, he expressed interest in making music that creates atmosphere instead of simply being atmospheric. He made his solo debut with the processed piano pieces of 1985's Voices, then began expanding his range, with string arrangements on 1988's Between Tides and an exploration of traditional British music on 1996's Swimming, which featured his own vocals. Eno has collaborated often, including work with Peter Hammill, producer Plumbline, and (as Channel Light Vessel) with Bill Nelson, Laraaji, and Kate St. John. His 2022 release The Turning Year included strings by Scoring Berlin.
- HOMETOWN
- Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
- BORN
- 1959
- GENRE
- Electronic