Musician, composer, producer: Brian Eno is unique in contemporary music. Best known in recent years for producing U2's sensational albums, Eno began his career as a synthesizer player for Roxy Music. He has since released many solo albums, both rock and ambient, written music for film and television soundtracks, and collaborated with David Bowie, David Byrne, Robert Fripp, and classical and experimental composers. His pioneering ambient sound has been enormously influential, and without him today's rock would have a decidedly different sound. Drawing on Eno's own words to examine his influences and ideas, this book—featuring a new afterword and an updated discography and bibliography—will long remain provocative and definitive.
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Eric Tamm earned his Ph.D. in music at the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught music history, theory, and piano at numerous Bay Area colleges and universities.
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This review is from: Brian Eno: His Music And The Vertical Color Of Sound (Paperback)
Sorry, I haven't read it yet. But I thought potential buyers might want to know that this book and the same author's book on Robert Fripp are both available for free download from the author's web site. An act of generosity that certainly deserves five stars.
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A good introduction,
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This review is from: Brian Eno: His Music And The Vertical Color Of Sound (Paperback)
This book is best for the fan who is also a home recording artist. It tackles Eno primarily in the studio and gives very clear descriptions of his techniques. There is even a glossary in the back. The book deals with his pre-1988 work and was originially a thesis paper so at times reads like one, dry. I enjoy Eno, but this book did nothing to enhance the "myth." Rather it made him human. Not bad, right?
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A tad dry but necessary reading for any Eno fan.,
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This review is from: Brian Eno: His Music And The Vertical Color Of Sound (Paperback)
Though this book is written more from a technical perspective, it provides interesting insights into the furtile, creative mind of Brian Eno. I would not recommend this book to anyone who doesn't have interest in musicology or the technical nature of music creation. However, for those who are interested, feast away.
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Brian Eno (b. 1948) is a contemporary British musician and artist whose public creative career began in 1972 with his synthesizer playing for the rock group Roxy Music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Another Green World, Discreet Music, New York, Robert Fripp, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Bush of Ghosts, Side One, Sky Saw, Taking Tiger Mountain, Little Fishes, Oblique Strategies, Side Two, The Big Ship, David Bowie, Lester Bangs, Terry Riley, Bob Dylan, King Crimson, Rolling Stones, Spirits Drifting, Thursday Afternoon, United States New!
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Brian Eno (b. 1948) is a contemporary British musician and artist whose public creative career began in 1972 with his synthesizer playing for the rock group Roxy Music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Another Green World, Discreet Music, New York, Robert Fripp, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Bush of Ghosts, Side One, Sky Saw, Taking Tiger Mountain, Little Fishes, Oblique Strategies, Side Two, The Big Ship, David Bowie, Lester Bangs, Terry Riley, Bob Dylan, King Crimson, Rolling Stones, Spirits Drifting, Thursday Afternoon, United States New!
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- More Dark Than Shark by Brian Eno on 11 pages
- Brian Eno by John Hutchinson on 8 pages
- The Green World by Soup Stone on 7 pages
- The New Harvard Dictionary of Music (Harvard University Press Reference Library) by Don Michael Randel on 4 pages
- All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century by John Rockwell on 4 pages
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- The Poetics of Rock: Cutting Tracks, Making Records by Albin J. Zak in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music by Virgil Moorefield in Back Matter
- Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Keith Potter in Back Matter
- Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork (Feedback (Chicago, Ill.), V. 3.) by Bill Martin in Back Matter
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