Brian Eno
British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artist · United Kingdom · On the map · Musicians · Born 1948 · age 78
Brian Eno is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, sound designer, author and political activist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music.
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LateralAlbum, 8 tracks
LiminalAlbum, 202511 tracks
LuminalAlbum, 202511 tracks2024
Eno (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Album, 17 tracks
Sushi. Roti. ReibekuchenAlbum, 20245 tracks2023
Secret LifeAlbum, 11 tracks
Top Boy (Score from the Original Series)Album, 202319 tracks2022
FOREVERANDEVERNOMOREAlbum, 10 tracksEditions: FOREVER VOICELESS EDITION2020
Mixing Colours (Expanded)Album, 25 tracks2012Royal Designer for IndustryAward2010“A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn't.”In their words16 June 2010 | Source1995“Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.”In their words7 December 1995, p. 272“Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.”In their words2 August 1995, p. 165“Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life.”In their words25 June 1995, p. 140“The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.”In their words2 June 1995, p. 126“Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.”In their words23 March 1995, p. 811994Frankfurter MusikpreisAward1948Born15 May 1948People around Brian
Daniel Lanois Produced The Pearl and Music for Films Volume 2
David Byrne Duets: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981)
Robert Fripp Bandmate in Fripp & Eno
Harold Budd Brian produced Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (1980)
Jon Hassell Brian produced Power Spot (1986)
John Cale Brian produced Words for the Dying (1989)- Conny Plank Produced Cluster & Eno and After The Heat
- Rhett Davies Produced Another Green World (1975)
Leo Abrahams Produced Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008)
Karl Hyde Duets: High Life and Someday World
Damon Albarn Brian produced Everyday Robots (2014)
Luciano Pavarotti Brian produced Miss Sarajevo
Enya Influenced by Brian
Sinéad O'Connor Brian produced Faith and Courage (2000)
John Cage Brian produced Voices and Instruments (1976)
Peter Gabriel Brian produced i/o (2023)
Michael Nyman Brian produced Decay Music (1976)
Neneh Cherry Duets: Lullaby (2025)
Robert Wyatt Brian produced Shleep (1997)
Jools Holland Brian produced Piano
Jon Hopkins Brian produced Small Craft on a Milk Sea (2010)
Jane Siberry Brian produced When I Was a Boy (1993)
Joana Preiss Brian wrote Clean and Boarding Gate
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Albums 9
LILiminalLALateralLULuminalSRSushi. Roti. ReibekuchenESEno (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)TSTop Boy (Score from the Original Series)SLSecret LifeFOFOREVERANDEVERNOMOREMEMixing Colours (Expanded)Media & music
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Eno on Dutch television in 1974
Eno performing at the Rainbow Theatre in London in 1974. The performance was released as part of the live album June 1, 1974.
Eno (right) with David Byrne in 1981
Eno at the Long Now Foundation, 26 June 2006
Eno at Moogfest, Asheville, North Carolina, 2011
Eno in Prague, Czechia, 2017
Eno at the Barbican Centre on 23 October 2022In their own words 4
, At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.
As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
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About this person
A self-described "non-musician", Eno has helped introduce unconventional concepts and approaches to contemporary music. He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures. In 2019, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music.
