Evening Star

Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Fripp And Eno | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 31, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Editions Eg Records
• ASIN: B000003S27
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,378 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wind on Water

2. Evening Star

3. Evensong

4. Wind on Wind

5. An Index of Metals

Editorial Reviews

Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, Evening Star --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Profoundly beautiful, March 27, 2003

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M. Bergeron "Muziclvr" (Colchester, VT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Evening Star (Audio CD)

This is a work of sheer beauty. The title track is magnificant pastoral of a simple piano progression and Fripp's soaring guitar and is worth the price of admission. The 'second side' is the abstract 'Index of Metals' 20-odd minutes of layered guitar and synth loops under some of the most beautiful axe-work Mr. Fripp has unleashed. The soon-to-be-dubbed "Frippertronics" technique is shown here in all of it's glory, tape saturation and decay...missing in the digital technique adds texture and timbre. No, this is NOT for everybody, but try a taste....it could become one of your favorite albums (as it is mine)

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Aural Wallpaper", April 5, 2003

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C. Gardner (Washington D.C., D.C. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Evening Star (Audio CD)

"Wind on Water/Evening Star" is one of the coolest pieces either of these musicians have ever collaborated on. On the first track it sounds like Eno looped Fripp's sparse pentatonic melodies and trills dozens of times, processing each in a different way to create an edifice that beckons the listener in...Then the clusters of sound are stripped away, revealing further "rooms" within (just like the title--"Wind on Water" is the English translation of Feng Shui, the ancient Chinese art of design). It and the following title piece are alone worth the price of this CD..."Wind on Wind" is an excerpt from "Discreet Music," Eno's 1974 ambient release. "An Index of Metals" begins with a dissonant, dial-tone like chord which gradually changes into a monstrous proto-industrial soundscape.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you, Robert Fripp, for perfecting this masterpiece, October 25, 2008

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The Glass Guitar - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Evening Star (Audio CD)

I've always been an agnostic when it comes to remastered versions of classic albums. However, this brilliant album was remastered by Robert Fripp himself, along with Simon Heyworth. As a result, the integrity of the music is maintained while the quality of the recording stands head and shoulders above the remastering attempts of others.

"Wind on Water," which originally sounded more or less like solid chords, is revealed as an intricate network of looped sounds. "Evensong" likewise is exposed as having much greater depth than I ever suspected. As for "Evening Star," a piece of music so beautiful it seems as though it simply dropped out of heaven, it's even richer.

However, it is "An Index of Metals" that stands as a testament to the skill of Fripp and Heyworth. I've listened to this piece hundreds of times, and it never sounded like this. The depth, the clarity, and the dynamics that are present in this remastering are unparalleled in any remastered CD I've ever heard.

If you love this album, throw out your 1990 version and buy this one today.