Brian Eno: Brian Eno discography, Ride, Rise, Roar, Paul Rudolph, Oblique Strategies, A Year with Swollen Appendices, 77 Million Paintings

Chapters: Brian Eno discography, Ride, Rise, Roar, Paul Rudolph, Oblique Strategies, A Year with Swollen Appendices, 77 Million Paintings, Bloom,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 57. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), commonly known as Brian Eno and previously as simply Eno (pronounced ), is an English musician, composer, record producer, music theorist, singer and visual artist, best known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. Eno studied at art school, taking inspiration from minimalist painting, but he had little musical education or playing experience when he joined the band Roxy Music as their keyboards and synthesisers player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon tired of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry, and of touring, and he left the group after the release of For Your Pleasure (1973), beginning his solo career with the art rock records Here Come the Warm Jets (1974) and Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974). Eno extended his reach into more experimental musical styles with No Pussyfooting (1973) and Evening Star (1975), both collaborations with Robert Fripp, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) by Genesis where he is credited as Enossification, and his influential solo records Another Green World (1975) and Discreet Music (1975). His pioneering ambient efforts at "sonic landscapes" began to consume more of his time beginning with Ambient 1/Music for Airports (1978) and later Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (1983) which was composed for the documentary film For All Mankind. Eno nevertheless continued to sing on some of his records, ranging from Before and After Science (1977) to Wrong Way Up (1990) with John Cale to most ...http://booksllc.net/?id=21222062