Creator Of Modern Ambient Music, Brian Eno is 60 This Week
Much like music in itself, it feels like Brian Eno has been around all the time in the background. Separate from fads and fashion, Brian has been there.
Although saying that he hasn’t been hidden in the shadows. With his success as an international producer he has made himself more famous than his (slightly) more humble other achievements as the keyboard player for Roxy Music and, of course, the leading light of modern ambient music. I say ‘modern’ because ambience as a theme was explored many years before with the likes of (for example) Debussy.
Brian’s early solo work created the first modern ambient albums and his thinking around the use of ambient music as background and unobtrusive has been captured in interviews since then.
However, in my opinion a particular collaboration with David Byrne which resulted in My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts has also given ambient, and electronic music huge inspiration during the past 25 plus years.
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts provided inspirational rhythms and melodies, new fresh approaches to composition as well as using audio recordings from various sources, almost as samples before samples were invented as digital clips to be processed. In the days this album was created they would have engineered the album with tape.
‘Bush’ remains one of my own personal favourite albums of all time as well as my favourite Eno album over and above my own acknowledgement of the importance and significance of Eno’s ambient collections.
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