Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno,RDI (/ˈiːnoʊ/; born 15 May 1948 and originally christened Brian Peter George Eno), professionally known as Brian Eno or simply Eno, is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. Born in Suffolk, Eno studied under Roy Ascott at Ipswich Civic College and later attended Colchester Institute art school in Essex, England, taking inspiration from minimalist painting, cybernetics, and experimental music techniques during his time there. He joined the band Roxy Music as synthesiser player in the early 1970s. The group's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon became tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry, leaving the group in 1973 to record innovative solo albums that would explore various styles and help pioneer ambient music.
Throughout the 1970s, Eno also worked as an influential collaborator and music producer, collaborating with Robert Fripp on the LPs (No Pussyfooting) (1973) and Evening Star (1975), David Bowie on his acclaimed "Berlin Trilogy," avant-garde musicians Jon Hassell and Harold Budd on several respective projects, and David Byrne on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (released 1981), and further producing the acclaimed "No Wave" compilation No New York (1978), three albums by New York post-punk group Talking Heads, and albums by new wave bands Devo and Ultravox, among others. In subsequent decades, he has produced or worked on albums by U2, James, Laurie Anderson, Coldplay, Paul Simon, Grace Jones, James Blake and Slowdive, among others. Eno has also pursued multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, including his mid-1970s development of "Oblique Strategies" (written with Peter Schmidt), a deck of cards featuring cryptic aphorisms intended to break creative blocks and encourage lateral thinking.
Congratulations (album)
Congratulations is the second major label studio album by American psychedelic rock band MGMT, released on April 13, 2010. The album is a departure from the synthpop style that first brought the band acclaim on their major label debut, Oracular Spectacular, and features a more progressive, guitar-driven sound.
History
MGMT began writing the tracks that would ultimately appear on Congratulations in early 2009 in a "Heaven". They eventually headed to a Malibu studio to work on the album with producer Pete Kember, ex-member of Spacemen 3, where vocal contributions from Royal Trux singer Jennifer Herrema were also recorded for the album. VanWyngarden has stated that the album is influenced by the band's massive rise in popularity since Oracular Spectacular's release. "It's us trying to deal with all the craziness that's been going on since our last album took off. Sometimes it just doesn't feel natural". The album was influenced by Lady Gaga and Kanye West.
On January 12, 2010, Andrew Van Wyngarden declared the album finished in an interview on the Spin Magazine website, saying: "It's mixed and mastered, and now we're just working on presenting it to the world". On January 18, MGMT stated that they would prefer not to release any singles from the album. In an interview with NME, they explained their reasoning behind it—that it's meant to be a complete body of songs rather than an album with standout singles. "We'd rather people hear the whole album as an album and see what tracks jump out rather than the ones that get played on the radio – if anything gets played on the radio!" Goldwasser explained. He added: "There definitely isn't a 'Time to Pretend' or a 'Kids' on the album. We've been talking about ways to make sure people hear the album as an album in order and not just figure out what are the best three tracks, download those and not listen to the rest of it".
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ALBUMS
- Someday World released: 2014
- The Shutov Assembly released: 2014
- Nerve Net released: 2014
- LUX released: 2012
- Drums Between the Bells released: 2011
- Making Space released: 2010
- Small Craft on a Milk Sea released: 2010
- Tracks and Traces released: 2009
- After the Heat released: 2009
- Everything That Happens Will Happen Today released: 2008
- 77 Million released: 2006
- Another Day on Earth released: 2005
- More Music for Films released: 2005
- The Drop released: 2005
- Wrong Way Up released: 2005
- Curiosities, Volume 2 released: 2004
- Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror released: 2004
- Here Come the Warm Jets released: 2004
- Another Green World released: 2004
- Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy) released: 2004
- Neroli released: 2004
- Brian Eno released: 2003
- January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now released: 2003
- Curiosities, Volume 1 released: 2003
- Long Now released: 2002
- Music for Prague released: 2001
- Drawn From Life released: 2001
- Music for 陰陽師 released: 2000
- Music for Civic Recovery Centre released: 2000
- I dormienti released: 1999
- Sonora released: 1999
- Music for White Cube: London, 1997 released: 1997
- Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace released: 1997
- Generative Music I released: 1996
- Spinner released: 1995
- Brian Eno I & II Sampler released: 1994
- Headcandy released: 1994
- Eno Box I: Instrumental released: 1993
- Eno Box: Vocal released: 1993
- Dali's Car released: 1993
- Ali Click released: 1992
- My Squelchy Life released: 1991
- June 1, 1974 released: 1990
- Discreet Music released: 1990
- Textures released: 1989
- My Life in the Bush of Ghosts released: 1989
- Begegnungen released: 1989
- Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks released: 1987
- More Blank Than Frank released: 1986
- Before and After Science released: 1986
- Begegnungen II released: 1985
- Thursday Afternoon released: 1985
- The Pearl released: 1984
- Ambient 4: On Land released: 1982
- Fourth World, Volume 1: Possible Musics released: 1980
- In a Land of Clear Colours released: 1979
- Music for Films released: 1978
- Ambient 1: Music for Airports released: 1978
- Cluster & Eno released: 1977
- High Life released:
- Rare Ambient released:
- More Generative Music released:
- 1999-06-20: Holland Festival, The Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (feat. Metropole Orkest, conductor: Dick Bakker) released:
- Original Masters (Early Works Selection) released:
- Desert Island Selection released:
- Old Land released:
January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now
Released 2003- Fixed Ratio Harmonic Bells
- Changes Where Bell Number = Repeat Number
- 2 Harmonic Studies
- Deep Glass Bells (With Harmonic Clouds)
- Dark Cracked Bells With Bass
- German-Style Ringing
- Emphasizing Enharmonic Partials
- Changes for January 07003, Soft Bells, Hillis Algorithm
- Lithuanian Bell Study
- Large Bell Change Improvisation
- Reverse Harmonics Bells
- Bell Improvisation 2
- Virtual Dream Bells, Thick Glass
- Tsar Kolokol III (And Friends)
- 1st-14th January 07003, Hard Bells, Hillis Algorithm
Eno Box I: Instrumental
Released 1993- Another Green World
- Energy Fools the Magician
- Dover Beach
- Slow Water
- Untitled
- Chemin De Fer
- Empty Landscape
- Reactor
- The Secret
- Don't Look Back
- Marseilles
- Two Rapid Formations
- Sparrowfall I
- Sparrowfall II
- Sparrowfall III
- Events in Dense Fog
- 'There Is Nobody'
- Patrolling Wire Borders
- A Measured Room
- Task Force
- M386
- Final Sunset
- The Dove
- Roman Twilight
- Dawn, Marshland
- Always Returning I
- Signals
- Drift Study
- Approaching Taidu
- Always Returning II
- Asian River
Eno Box: Vocal
Released 1993- Needles in the Camel's Eye
- Baby's on Fire
- Cindy Tells Me
- On Some Faraway Beach
- Blank Frank
- Dead Finks Don't Talk
- Some of Them Are Old
- Here Come the Warm Jets
- Seven Deadly Finns
- Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
- Back in Judy's Jungle
- The Great Pretender
- Third Uncle
- Put a Straw Under Baby
- The True Wheel
- Taking Tiger Mountain
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight
1999-06-20: Holland Festival, The Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (feat. Metropole Orkest, conductor: Dick Bakker)
- The Shutov Assembly: Lanzarote
- The Shutov Assembly: Saint Tom
- The Shutov Assembly: Cavallino
- The Shutov Assembly: Final Sunset
- The Shutov Assembly: Markgraph
- The Shutov Assembly: An Ending
- The Shutov Assembly: Ikebukuro
- The Shutov Assembly: Triennale
- The Shutov Assembly: Alhondiga
- The Shutov Assembly: Iced World
- Another Green World
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Broken Head
by: Brian EnoI was just a broken head
I stole the world that others punctured
Now I stumble through the garbage
Slide and tumble, slide and stumble
Beak and claw, remorse reminder
Slide and tumble, slide and stumble
back and forth and back to nothing
Keep them tidy, keep them humble.
Chop and change to cut the corners
Sharp as razors shiny razors
Stranded on a world that's dying
Never moving, hardly trying.
I was just a broken head
I stole the world that others plundered
Now I stumble through the garbage
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