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Brian Eno
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Brian Eno is an English musician, producer and artist, born in 1948 in Melton, Suffolk. He studied at art schools in Ipswich and Winchester and calls himself a non-musician: virtuosity does not interest him. Even at school he used a tape recorder as an instrument. In 1971 he joined the glam rock band Roxy Music, where he operated the synthesizer and tape effects on the first two albums. In 1973 he left after a disagreement with Bryan Ferry.
Music and breakthrough
His first solo records, Here Come the Warm Jets and Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy), still contained songs. On Another Green World, from 1975, he already combined rock with quiet, instrumental pieces. After that he devised the term ambient: music that you can also ignore. Ambient 1: Music for Airports became the best-known example. Eno uses the studio itself as an instrument to compose with, and he likes to let chance play a part.
Influence
As a producer he left his mark on rock music. With David Bowie he made the albums Low, Heroes and Lodger, together the Berlin Trilogy. He produced Talking Heads, including Remain in Light, and together with Daniel Lanois the great U2 records The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby. Later came Coldplay's Viva la Vida. In School of Rock he appears in the story about electronic music, as someone who sensed early on which way the sound of the future was heading. Many ambient makers regard him as the founder of the genre.
Listening
Discography
Studio albums
- 1973Here Come the Warm Jets
- 1974Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)
- 1975Another Green World
- 1975Discreet Music
- 1977Before and After Science
- 1977Cluster & Eno
- 1978After the Heat
- 1978Ambient 1: Music for Airports
- 1978Music for Films
- 1979In a Land of Clear Colours
- 1980Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
- 1980Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics
- 1981My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
- 1982Ambient 4: On Land
- 1983Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
- 1983Music for Films, Volume 2
- 1984The Pearl
- 1985Hybrid
- 1985Thursday Afternoon
- 1989Textures
- 1990Wrong Way Up
- 1991My Squelchy Life
- 1992Nerve Net
- 1992The Shutov Assembly
- 1993Neroli
- 1994Headcandy
- 1995Spinner
- 1996Generative Music I
- 1997“Lightness”: Music for the Marble Palace
- 1997Contra 1.2
- 1997Music for White Cube: London, 1997
- 1997The Drop
- 1999I dormienti
- 2000Music for Civic Recovery Centre
- 2000Music for 陰陽師
- 2001Drawn From Life
- 2001Music for Prague
- 2003Curiosities, Volume I
- 2003January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now
- 2004Curiosities, Volume II
- 200514 Video Paintings
- 2005Another Day on Earth
- 200677 Million
- 2008Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
- 2010Making Space
- 2010Small Craft on a Milk Sea
- 2011Drums Between the Bells
- 2012LUX
- 2014High Life
- 2014Someday World
- 2016The Ship
- 2017Finding Shore
- 2017Reflection
- 2017Sisters
- 2020Dokument #2
- 2020Mixing Colours
- 2020Rams – Original Soundtrack Album (soundtrack)
- 2022FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
- 2023Discreet Music / Music for Airports / Thursday Afternoon
- 2023Secret Life
- 2023Top Boy – Score From the Original Series (soundtrack)
- 2024Eno: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 2025Aurum
- 2025Lateral
- 2025Liminal
- 2025Luminal
- 20262 Slow Stories
In School of Rock
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- Mixtape 8: Electronic MusicNL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Synthesizer orchestra, ambient and new age Genre
Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze in Berlin had preceded them, and in 1978 Brian Eno gave the genre its name, ambient, with Music for Airports.