In 2019 Simon Godfrey (Tinyfish, Shineback, Valdez) informed Prog about his admiration for Brian Eno, itemizing a few of the ex Roxy Music man’s achievements over time, and saluting the angle behind them.
“With out the works of Brian Eno, I completely wouldn’t be making music as we speak. Which may sound somewhat dramatic, however over time I’ve come to understand that every one that I maintain of curiosity within the creation and association of sound has its roots within the instruments and strategies which had been pioneered by this unassuming artwork scholar from Suffolk, England.
His first 4 solo albums after he left Roxy Music fully modified my notion of what progressive music may do. He changed bombast with erudition, and repopulated the musical panorama with a wholly new menu of unique sonic entrées for our delectation and delight.
One of many central tenets that excites me most about Eno’s work is his infinite quest to confound his personal expectations. From his debut file Right here Come The Heat Jets, by to his modern generative music apps, Eno eagerly invitations his creations to take him in surprising instructions.
That was by no means extra obvious than in his 70s masterpiece One other Inexperienced World, the place he collaborated with the singular skills of artists akin to Phil Collins, Percy Jones and Robert Fripp, and ended up utilizing their jams to type an otherworldly melancholy which sounds as contemporary and creative as we speak because it was groundbreaking again then.
With a music manufacturing and collaborative portfolio that reads like a Who’s Who of a few of the most obscure (Cluster) and well-known (U2) bands on the market, you get the sense that his thirst for locating new and fascinating issues in any respect ranges of music continues unabated to today.
Briefly, Eno is a wonderful musical anomaly. For me, his curiosity and outlook on the creation of sound place him in a choose group of artists who’re successfully a style all to themselves.
We want Brian Eno way more than he wants us. His pioneering studio strategies and sonic interventions have touched everybody from Genesis to Bowie. Prog as a style owes him an enormous debt of gratitude, and presumably a number of pints of his most popular tipple of alternative at pubs up and down the UK.”
