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Brian Eno

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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Laurie Anderson
Performance Artist
5-Jun-1947   Tape bow violinist and performance artist
Brian Eno
Music Producer
15-May-1948   Here Come The Warm Jets
Robert Fripp
Guitarist
16-May-1946   King Crimson
Fred Frith
Guitarist
2-Feb-1949   Avant garde rock guitarist

DISCOGRAPHY

Here Come The Warm Jets (1974, EG/Island/Polydor)
1Needles In The Camel's Eye (with Chris Spedding and Phil Manzanera)
2The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch (with Chris Spedding and Phil Manzanera)
3Baby's On Fire (with Robert Fripp and John Wetton)
4Cindy Tells Me (with Phil Manzanera)
5Driving Me Backwards (with Robert Fripp and John Wetton)
6On Some Faraway Beach
7Blank Frank (with Robert Fripp)
8Dead Finks Don't Talk
9Some Of Them Are Old
10Here Come The Warm Jets

A digitally remastered edition was issued by Virgin/Astralwerks in 2004.

Seven Deadly Finns (1974, Island)
1Seven Deadly Finns
2Later On

Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974, EG/Island/Polydor)
1Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
2Back In Judy's Jungle
3Fat Lady Of Limbourg (with Andy Mackay)
4Mother Whale Eyeless (with Phil Collins)
5The Great Pretender
6Third Uncle
7Put A Straw Under Baby (with Portsmouth Sinfonia)
8The True Wheel
9China My China
10Taking Tiger Mountain

A digitally remastered edition was issued by Virgin/Astralwerks in 2004.

The Lion Sleeps Tonight (1975, Island)
1The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) (The Evening Birds cover)
2I'll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoes) (with Robert Fripp)

Another Green World (1975, EG/Island/Polydor)
1Sky Saw (with John Cale and Phil Collins)
2Over Fire Island (with Phil Collins)
3St. Elmo's Fire (with Robert Fripp)
4In Dark Trees
5The Big Ship
6I'll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoes) (with Robert Fripp)
7Another Green World
8Sombre Reptiles
9Little Fishes
10Golden Hours (with John Cale and Robert Fripp)
11Becalmed
12Zawinul/Lava (with Phil Collins)
13Everything Merges With The Night
14Spirits Drifting

A digitally remastered edition was issued by Virgin/Astralwerks in 2004.

Discreet Music (1975, Obscure)
1Discreet Music
2Three Variations On The Canon In D Major By Johann Pachelbel: Fullness Of Wind
3Three Variations On The Canon In D Major By Johann Pachelbel: French Catalogues
4Three Variations On The Canon In D Major By Johann Pachelbel: Brutal Ardour

Reissued by EG in 1983. A digitally remastered edition was issued by Virgin/Astralwerks in 2004.

Music For Films (promotional version) (1976, EG)
1Becalmed
2Deep Waters
3'There Is Nobody'
4Spain
5Untitled
6The Last Door
7Chemin De Fer
8Dark Waters
9Sparrowfall (1)
10Sparrowfall (2)
11Sparrowfall (3)
12Evening Star
13Another Green World
14In Dark Trees
15Fuseli
16Melancholy Waltz
17Northern Lights
18From The Coast
19Shell
20Little Fishes
21Empty Landscape
22Reactor
23The Secret
24Don't Look Back
25Marseilles
26Final Sunset
27Juliet

A double LP promotional release limited to 500 copies. Some of the tracks were given a general release two years later on the official single LP version of the album.

Before And After Science (1977, EG/Island/Polydor)
1No One Receiving (with Phil Collins)
2Backwater (with Jaki Liebezeit)
3Kurt's Rejoinder (with Kurt Schwitters)
4Energy Fools The Magician (with Fred Frith and Phil Collins)
5King's Lead Hat (with Robert Fripp and Phil Manzanera)
6Here He Comes (with Phil Manzanera)
7Julie With...
8By This River (with Cluster)
9Through Hollow Lands (with Fred Frith)
10Spider And I

A digitally remastered edition was issued by Virgin/Astralwerks in 2004.

King's Lead Hat (1977, Polydor)
1King's Lead Hat (with Robert Fripp and Phil Manzanera)
2R.A.F. (with Snatch)

Music For Films (1978, Polydor/Antilles)
1M386
2Aragon (with Phil Collins)
3From The Same Hill
4Inland Sea
5Two Rapid Formations (with Fred Frith)
6Slow Water (with Robert Fripp)
7Sparrowfall (1)
8Sparrowfall (2)
9Sparrowfall (3)
10Quartz
11Events In Dense Fog
12'There Is Nobody'
13A Measured Room
14Patrolling Wire Borders (with John Cale and Phil Collins)
15Task Force
16Alternative 3
17Strange Light (with Fred Frith)
18Final Sunset

Reissued by EG in 1982. A digitally remastered edition was issued by Virgin/Astralwerks in 2005.

Ambient 1: Music For Airports (1978, EG/Polydor)
11/1 (with Robert Wyatt)
22/1
31/2
42/2

A digitally remastered edition was issued by Virgin/Astralwerks in 2004.

Music For Airplay (1981, EG)
1Baby's On Fire (with Robert Fripp and John Wetton)
2Dead Finks Don't Talk
3The Great Pretender
4Third Uncle
5St. Elmo's Fire (with Robert Fripp)
6I'll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoes) (with Robert Fripp)
7Everything Merges With The Night
8No One Receiving
9Backwater (with Jaki Liebezeit)
10King's Lead Hat (with Robert Fripp and Phil Manzanera)

A promotional compilation.

Ambient 4: On Land (1982, EG)
1Lizard Point
2The Lost Day
3Tal Coat
4Shadow
5Lantarn Marsh
6Unfamiliar Wind
7A Clearing
8Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960

Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (1983, EG)
1Under Stars
2The Secret Place
3Matta
4Signals
5An Ending (Ascent)
6Under Stars II
7Drift
8Silver Morning
9Deep Blue Day
10Weightless
11Always Returning
12Stars

A digitally remastered edition was issued by Virgin/Astralwerks in 2005.

Music For Films, Volume 2 (1983, EG)
1The Dove
2Roman Twilight
3Matta
4Dawn, Marshland
5Climate Study
6The Secret Place
7An Ending
8Always Returning I
9Signals
10Under Stars
11Drift Study
12Approaching Taidu
13Always Returning II

Initially released only as part of the 11 LP boxed set Working Backwards 1983-1973, which also included the albums Apollo\: Atmospheres & Soundtracks, Ambient 4\: On Land, Ambient 1\: Music For Airports, Music For Films, Before And After Science, Discreet Music, Another Green World, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Here Come The Warm Jets, and Rarities. The album was given a seperate release in 1987.

Rarities (1983, EG)
1Seven Deadly Finns
2The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) (The Evening Birds cover)
3Strong Flashes Of Light
4More Volts
5Mist/Rhythm

Released only as part of the 11 LP boxed set Working Backwards 1983-1973, which also included the albums Apollo\: Atmospheres & Soundtracks, Ambient 4\: On Land, Ambient 1\: Music For Airports, Music For Films, Before And After Science, Discreet Music, Another Green World, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Here Come The Warm Jets, and Music For Films, Volume 2.

Thursday Afternoon (1985, EG)
1Thursday Afternoon

An edited version of the soundtrack to the video piece of the same name. A digitally remastered edition was issued by Virgin/Astralwerks in 2005.

Desert Island Selection (1986, EG)
1Here He Comes (with Phil Manzanera)
2Everything Merges With The Night
3I'll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoe) (with Robert Fripp)
4On Some Faraway Beach
5Spirits Drifting
6Back In Judy's Jungle
7St. Elmo's Fire (with Robert Fripp)
8No One Receiving (with Phil Collins)
9Julie with...
10Taking Tiger Mountain
111/1 (with Robert Wyatt)

A CD compilation album.

More Blank Than Frank (1986, EG)
1Here He Comes (with Phil Manzanera)
2Everything Merges With The Night
3On Some Faraway Beach
4I'll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoe) (with Robert Fripp)
5Taking Tiger Mountain
6Backwater (with Jaki Liebezeit)
7St. Elmo's Fire (with Robert Fripp)
8No One Receiving (with Phil Collins)
9The Great Pretender
10King's Lead Hat (with Robert Fripp and Phil Manzanera)

The vinyl counterpart to the Desert Island Selection compilation.

Another Green World - The Title Music Of Arena (1989, EG)
1Another Green World
2Dover Beach
3Deep Blue Day
42/1

A promotional single released after the track Another Green World was put to use as the theme to the BBC arts show Arena. The track Dover Beach originally appeared on the the soundtrack to the Derek Jarman film Jubilee (1977).

My Squelchy Life (1991, Opal/Warner Brothers)
1I Fall Up
2The Harness
3My Squelchy Life
4Tutti Forgetti
5Stiff
6Some Words
7Juju Space Jazz
8Under
9Everybody's Mother
10Step Up My Boys
11Little Apricot
12Over

Issued only in a promotion version before it was withdrawn. Some of the tracks sunsequently re-appeared on Nerve Net and the CD single Ali Click; the track Under later surfaced on the Cool World soundtrack.

Fractal Zoom (1992, Opal/Warner Brothers)
1Fractal Zoom (Separate Time edit)
2Fractal Zoom (Mary's Birthday edit) (with Moby)
3Fractal Zoom (Up River mix) (with Moby)
4Fractal Zoom (Small Country mix)
5The Roil, The Choke
6Fractal Zoom (Naive mix I) (with Moby)
7Fractal Zoom (Zaire mix)
8Fractal Zoom (Naive mix II) (with Moby)
9Fractal Zoom (Landed mix) (with Moby)
10Fractal Zoom (Bucolic mix) (with Moby)
11Fractal Zoom (Separate Time mix)
12Fractal Zoom (Mary's Birthday mix) (with Moby)

The vinyl edition lacked tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, 9 and 10, but added Fractal Zoom (A Cappella) (remixed by Moby).

Nerve Net (1992, Opal/Warner Brothers)
1Fractal Zoom (with Robert Fripp)
2Wire Shock
3What Actually Happened?
4Pierre In Mist
5My Squelchy Life
6Juju Space Jazz (with Robert Fripp and Robert Quine)
7The Roil, The Choke
8Ali Click (with Jamie West-Oram)
9Distributed Being (with Robert Fripp and John Paul Jones)
10Web (with Robert Fripp)
11Web (Lascaux mix) (with Robert Fripp)
12Decentre

Ali Click (1992, Warner Brothers)
1Ali Click (Grid master edit) (with The Grid)
2Ali Click (album edit) ( with Jamie West-Oram)
3Ali Click (Rural "Doo Gap" mix)
4Ali Click (Trance mix - long) (with The Grid)
5Ali Click (Darkly Mad mix)
6Ali Click (Grid master remix) (with The Grid)
7Ali Click (Beirut Hilton mix)
8I Fall Up (with Robert Fripp)

The UK version lacked tracks 1,6 and 8, but added Ali Click (album mix) and Ali Click (Trance mix - short) (remixed by The Grid).

The Shutov Assembly (1992, Opal/Warner Brothers)
1Triennale
2Alhondiga
3Markgraph
4Lanzarote
5Francisco
6Riverside
7Innocenti
8Stedelijk
9Ikebukuro
10Cavallino

Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV) (1993, All Saints/Gyroscope)
1Neroli

Brian Eno Box I: Instrumental (1993, Virgin)
Disc 1
1Another Green World
2Energy Fools The Magician (with Fred Frith and Phil Collins)
3Dover Beach
4Slow Water (with Robert Fripp)
5Untitled
6Chemin De Fer
7Empty Landscape
8Reactor
9The Secret
10Don't Look Back
11Marseilles
12Two Rapid Formations
13Sparrowfall (1)
14Sparrowfall (2)
15Sparrowfall (3)
16Events In Dense Fog
17'There Is Nobody'
18Patrolling Wire Borders
19A Measured Room
20Task Force
21M386
22Final Sunset
23The Dove
24Roman Twilight
25Dawn, Marshland
26Always Returning I
27Signals
28Drift Study
29Approaching Taidu
30Always Returning II
31Asian River
Disc 2
1Theme From "Creation"
2Saint Tom
3Warsawa (with David Bowie)
4Chemistry (with Jon Hassell)
5Courage (with Jon Hassell)
6Moss Garden (with David Bowie)
7Tension Block
8Strong Flashes Of Light
9More Volts
10Mist/Rhythm
11Ho Renomo (with Cluster)
12A Stream With Bright Fish (with Harold Budd)
13Fleeting Smile (with Roger Eno)
14An Arc Of Doves (with Harold Budd)
15Stars (with Daniel Lanois)
16An Index Of Metals (edit) (with Robert Fripp)
Disc 3
11/1
2Ikebukuro (edit)
3The Lost Day
4Thursday Afternoon (edit)
5Discreet Music (edit)
6Dunwich Beach, Autumn 1960
7Neroli (edit)

Brian Eno Box II: Vocal (1993, Virgin)
Disc 1
1Needle In The Camel's Eye (with Chris Spedding and Phil Manzanera)
2Baby's On Fire (with Robert Fripp and John Wetton)
3Cindy Tells Me (with Phil Manzanera)
4On Some Faraway Beach
5Blank Frank (with Robert Fripp)
6Dead Finks Don't Talk
7Some Of Them Are Old
8Here Come The Warm Jets
9Seven Deadly Finns
10Burning Airlines Give You So Much
11Back In Judy's Jungle
12The Great Pretender
13Third Uncle
14Put A Straw Under Baby (with Portsmouth Sinfonia)
15The True Wheel
16Taking Tiger Mountain
17The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) (The Evening Birds cover)
Disc 2
1Sky Saw (with John Cale and Phil Collins)
2Over Fire Island (with Phil Collins)
3St. Elmo's Fire (with Robert Fripp)
4In Dark Trees
5The Big Ship
6I'll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoe) (with Robert Fripp)
7Sombre Reptiles
8Golden Hours (with John Cale and Robert Fripp)
9Becalmed
10Zawinul/Lava (with Phil Collins)
11Everything Merges With The Night
12Spirits Drifting
13No One Receiving (with Phil Collins)
14Backwater (with Jaki Liebezeit)
15Kurt's Rejoinder (with Kurt Schwitters)
16King's Lead Hat (with Robert Fripp and Phil Manzanera)
17Here He Comes (with Phil Manzanera)
18Julie with ...
19By This River (with Cluster)
20Through Hollow Lands (with Fred Frith)
21Spider And I
Disc 3
1R.A.F. (with Snatch)
2America Is Waiting (with David Byrne)
3Regiment (with David Byrne)
4The Jezebel Spirit (with David Byrne)
5Wire Shock
6Ali Click (with Jamie West-Oram)
7Spinning Away (with John Cale)
8Empty Frame (with John Cale)
9The River
10The Soul Of Carmen Miranda (with John Cale)
11The Belldog (with Cluster)
12I Fall Up (with Robert Fripp)
13Stiff
14Are They Thinking of Me?
15Some Words
16Under
17Over

Headcandy (1994, Ion)
1Beast (with Robert Fripp)
2Alloy Balcony & Jets Overhead
3Spunk Workship
4Castro Haze
5Manila Envelope (with Robert Fripp)

Soundtrack to a CD-ROM containing a software-generated, digital kaleidoscope.

Generative Music 1 (1996, Opal)
1Densities III
2Klee 4.2
3Komarek
4Lysis (Tungsten)
5Methane IV
6Microcosmology
7NS-9001
8Platform 292
9Rothko Doric
10Seed Reflector
11Supporting Circle
12Tintoretto

Released on computer disc, this album contained a collection of self-generating music pieces.

Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace (1997, Opal)
1Atmospheric Lightness
2Chamber Lightness

A extract from an endless piece created for an installation at the Marble Palace in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. Direct order release.

Music For White Cube (1997, Opal)
1Notting Hill, Feb 20
2Old Brompton Road, Feb 20
3The Oval, Feb 24
4Regents Park, Feb 1
5Barbican Station, Feb 24
6Bermondsey, Feb 24
7Kentish Town, Jan 29
8Lavender Hill, Feb 14
9Camden Town, Feb 24

Soundtrack created for an installation at the White Cube Gallery, London. Direct order release.

The Drop (1997, All Saints)
1Slip, Dip
2But If
3Belgian Drop
4Cornered
5Block Drop
6Out/Out
7Swanky
8Coasters
9Blissed
10M.C. Organ
11Boomcubist
12Hazard
13Rayonism
14Dutch Blur
15Back Clack
16Dear World
17Iced World

The Japanese edition also included a 'bonus disc' with the additional tracks Swat & Rut, Slicing System, Sharply Cornered.

I Dormienti (1999, Opal)
1I Dormienti

Soundtrack created for a sculptural installation by Mimmo Paladino at the Undercroft of the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London. Direct order release.

Kite Stories (1999, Opal)
1Kites I
2Kites II
3Kites III

Soundtrack created for an installation at the Kiasma Museum, Helsinki. Direct order release.

Sonora Portraits (1999, Materialli Sonori)
1Distant Hill
2Asian River
3Radiothesia III
4Swanky
5Theme From "Creation"
6White Mustang
7Left Where It Fell
8Spinning Away
9Strawinsky
10Saint Tom
11Theme For "Opera"
12Neroli (edit)
13Brian Eno Speaks

An Italian compilation CD released with a CD-sized book.

Music For Civic Recovery Centre (2000, Opal) Soundtrack created for an installation at the Hayward Gallery, London. Direct order release.

Compact Forest Proposal: 5 Studies for "010101" (2001, Opal)

1The Quiet Club (with Kyoko Inatome)
1Compact Forest Proposal, Condition 5
2Compact Forest Proposal, Condition 3
3Compact Forest Proposal, Condition 4
4Compact Forest Proposal, Condition 8
5Compact Forest Proposal, Condition 7

Soundtrack created for an installation at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Direct order release.

January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now (2003, Opal)
1Fixed Ratio Harmonic Bells
2Changes Where Bell Number = Repeat Number
32 Harmonic Studies
4Deep Glass Bells (With Harmonic Clouds)
5Dark Cracked Bells With Bass
6German-Style Ringing
7Emphasizing Enharmonic Partials
8Changes For January 07003, Soft Bells, Hillis Algorithm
9Lithuanian Bell Study
10Large bell change improvisation
11Reverse Harmonics Bells
12Bell Improvisation 2
13Virtual Dream Bells, Thick Glass
14Tsar Kolokol lll (And Friends)
151st - 14th January 07003, Hard Bells, Hillis Algorithm

Album released to benefit the Long Now Foundation. Direct order release.

Curiosities, Volume 1 (2003, Opal)
1Select A Bonk
2Draw One Animal
3Ambient Savage
4Circus Mathematics
5Castro Haze
6Groan Wash
7Cheeky Hop
8Work/Wank
9Late Evening In Jersey
10Slow Lump With Strings
11Never Tunnelling
12My Lonely Organ
13Weird Bird Call Carnival
14War Fetish
15Manila Envelope (with Robert Fripp)

Curiosities, Volume 2 (2004, Opal)
1Summer Ride
2Haslet
3Beta Recall
4Move
5Fat Nude Dance
6Native Tambourine
7Bright Alarm
8Watch The World
9Church
10Swept
11Fields Of Ice
12Asteroid Dawn

More Music For Films (2005)
1Untitled
2Last Door
3Chemin De Fer
4Dark Waters
5Fuseli
6Melancholy Waltz
7Northern Lights
8From The Coast
9Shell
10Empty Landscape
11Reactor
12Secret
13Don't Look Back
14Marseilles
15Dove
16Roman Twilight
17Dawn, Marshland
18Climate Study
19Drift Study
20Approaching Taidu
21Always Returning

A digitally remastered release of tracks from Music For Films, Volume 2 and the 2 LP promotional version of Music For Films.

Another Day On Earth (2005, Hannibal)
1This
2And Then So Clear
3A Long Way Down
4Going Unconscious
5Caught Between
6Passing Over
7How Many Worlds
8Bottomliners
9Just Another Day
10Under
11Bone Bomb

The Japanese edition also included the addition track The Demon Of The Miners.



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