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By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorAfter spending the tail end of 2011 pushing his idiosyncratic productions down two very different paths — the freakish experimental flourishes of Love What Happened Here and the manic emoting (complete with a Bonny Bear… more »

James Blake - 'Overgrown'

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorJames Blake has posted yet another key track from his new album on Tumblr. Available to stream here, "Take a Fall For Me" pairs the singer/producer with RZA for a moody meditation on marriage, lust… more »

By Arye Dworken, eMusic ContributorMusicians are narcissists. It's the chief qualification for getting on stage and soaking in the adulation of the masses. So when a band or a songwriter references another performer in a song, there's almost always… more »

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorWell it's about goddamn time. After years of padding his already-ridiculous resume – dude's down with Bowie, Bono and Byrne, not to mention Robert Fripp, Cluster and Coldplay – with such experimental flourishes as a… more »

Brian Eno

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By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorAs much as I adore Brian Eno, his last couple LPs have seemed like mere palette cleansers compared to classic albums like Music For Airports and Here Come the Warm Jets. Enticing on an I'm-glad-he-didn't-stop-challenging-himself-creatively… more »

By John Schaefer, eMusic ContributorFans of Martin Scorsese know that the director is almost as creative with the sound of his films as the look and the story. Shutter Island is a moody, spectral tale — and you don't… more »

When Andy went solo

By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorAside from the brilliant records, Roxy Music remains one of the most influential bands of the last 50 years based on the fact that they were the band that gave the world its first introduction to Brian Eno.… more »

By John Schaefer, eMusic ContributorEver since the expat American composer Conlon Nancarrow started writing his wonderfully weird, complex constructions for player piano in the 1940s, musicians have apparently bristled at the idea of music being written that they couldn't… more »

Fripp

By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorToday is Robert Fripp's birthday, yesterday was Brian Eno's birthday, and Monday was David Byrne's. How did that sort of coincidence end up happening, and does it end up explaining why  the trio link together so… more »

Eno

By Jason Diamond, eMusic Contributor Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno was born on this day in 1948 -- and yes, that's his real birth name. It's fitting that Brian Eno has a name that sounds like that… more »

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By Andy Battaglia, eMusic ContributorFrom the beginning, when he started lacing the spectacle of rock with ideas gleaned from outsider art, Brian Eno has been regarded as a sort of gnomic sage. It was that way when he was… more »

By Andrew Parks, eMusic Contributor Finally caught up with all the classic Brian Eno albums that landed on our digital shelves with last month? Good; because the post-everything icon already has another album on the way. Due out July 5th… more »

By Philip Sherburne, eMusic ContributorBrian Eno didn't invent ambient music; he drew much of his inspiration from Erik Satie's desire to make music that could "mingle with the sound of the knives and forks at dinner," as he acknowledged… more »

By Philip Sherburne, eMusic ContributorRecorded nearly two years after the avant-pop masterpiece Another Green World and the humble, process-based Discreet Music, and one year before Ambient 1: Music for Airports, 1977's Before and After Science represented the collision of… more »

By Philip Sherburne, eMusic ContributorRecorded a year after Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) was a rock record on its surface, full of tightly crafted pop songs with a sturdy, bass-heavy footprint that evoked the… more »

By Philip Sherburne, eMusic ContributorThe third installment in Eno's ambient series was not one of his own, but rather a record he produced for the electronic zither performer Laraaji. But with 1982's Ambient 4: On Land he proved not… more »

By Philip Sherburne, eMusic ContributorCompared to Another Green World, Discreet Music feels like a minor work, but it nevertheless represents an important step in Eno's lifelong quest to free music from human intention and ego. As Eno wrote in… more »

By Philip Sherburne, eMusic ContributorIf Brian Eno's processes were designed, in large part, to remove the composer's ego, his utilitarian, ambient output sought to downplay the ego of the music itself. In Music for Airports, this took the form… more »

By Philip Sherburne, eMusic ContributorMore even than its predecessor, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World sounds like a collage rather than a rock record; there's nothing to suggest that the slouching funk of "Sky Funk" and the… more »

By Philip Sherburne, eMusic ContributorFor listeners who have come to Brian Eno via his ambient records or his polymath reputation — which will be most anyone born after this record's release — Here Come the Warm Jets might come… more »

By Philip Sherburne, eMusic ContributorSurely few could have foreseen, watching the Top of the Pops in 1972, that the silver-gloved gentleman playing an alien-looking electronic gizmo would go on to become one of the late-20th century's most influential musicians.… more »

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