In 2019 Simon Godfrey (Tinyfish, Shineback, Valdez) informed Prog about his admiration for Brian Eno, itemizing among the ex Roxy Music man’s achievements through the years, and saluting the perspective behind them.
“With out the works of Brian Eno, I completely wouldn’t be making music in the present day. That may sound a bit dramatic, however through the years I’ve come to grasp 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 might do. He changed bombast with erudition, and repopulated the musical panorama with a completely 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 countless quest to confound his personal expectations. From his debut report Right here Come The Heat Jets, by way of 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 similar to Phil Collins, Percy Jones and Robert Fripp, and ended up utilizing their jams to type an otherworldly melancholy which sounds as recent and creative in the present day because it was groundbreaking again then.
With a music manufacturing and collaborative portfolio that reads like a Who’s Who of among 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 at the present time.
In brief, Eno is an excellent 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’d like Brian Eno far 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 probably a number of pints of his most well-liked tipple of alternative at pubs up and down the UK.”
