Caroline's Bio

NOTES: This info was current as of the release of Neroli and may be fully up to date. For example, the last item, the James album is listed here as T.B.A. I believe this record has been released under the name of 'LAID'.

BIOGRAPHY

Now fondly referred to in the British music press as 'Professor Eno' Brian Eno's public career started as Roxy Music's androgynous synthesizer star in the early 70s. The flamboyance was short lived, but Eno's commitment to rock music - as a creator, collaborator and producer - lasted the decade and as he continued, intermittently, into the 90s.

Eno's pioneering approach in both art and recording has made him one of rock's most sought after producers. His resume includes Devo, David Bowie, Ultravox, Carmel, John Cale, and TaLking Heads. Together with Daniel Lanois, Eno produced U2's "The Unforgettable Fire", "The Joshua Tree" and "Achtung Baby". Eno also conceived the idea of and created videos for their 'Zoo TV Tour' (1992). Most recently he has produced the band James for Phonogram Records.

His own solo albums each set a standard for and an inspiration to scores of devotees for the following decades. The recordings span a vast range. From the proto-punk "Here Come The Warm Jets"('73) through the brilliant album of song and instrumental miniatures of "Another Green World"('75)(which provided the theme for BBC 2's Arena), to his masterful tapestry of ethnic and 'found sound' interwoven with voice and sampler on the collaboration with David Byrne, "My Life With The Bush Of Ghosts" ('81), he bewildered and enchanted critics and public aLike. Meanwhile his pioneering ambient records, starting with "Discreet Music" ('75) and ending with "On Land" ('82), were credited by many as starting the whole New Age movement and more recently Ambient House.

Always seen as being ahead of his time, Brian Eno in 1992 released "Nerve Net", as well as "The Shutov Assembly", both to great critical acclaim.

INSTALLATIONS AND LECTURES

Outside of the 'rock' music milieu, Brian Eno has forged another equally influential and impressive career as a 'video artist'. Fascinated by the mediums potential as a way of painting with light, he first turned to video in 1979, and in the last 13 years he has staged more than 100 installations in public spaces around the world. Early works such as 'Two Fifth Avenue' (1979) and 'Mistaken Memories of Medieval Manhattan' (1981) - slow moving, intensely colored shots of the NY. skyline - are like gently animated paintings. Accompanied by Eno's own music, these works video . in that the TV monitor must be turned on its side and there is no narrative development .

In 1983, Eno began to conceal the monitors inside three-dimensional sculptures and paintings constructed out of perspeX and card, using the video as a way of illuminating the pieces from within. Visitors to these darkened installation spaces found themselves slowing down, almost involuntarily, to the rhythms of another (incandescent) world. By 1986 Eno had begun to incorporate 'real' objects, such as rocks, sand, tree-trunks and other natural elements, into his installations alongside the use of abstract slides.

Throughout his career Eno has lectured such wide and varied topics as 'The Studio as a Compositional Tool', and more recently on various aspects of culture, including High & Low art, perfume, haircuts, and defense.......

He has also spoken to delegates of the EEC on 'The Future of Culture' and is a member of an international computer-networked think-tank made up of 70 or so artists, intellectuals and scientists.

His most recent installation was entitled "The Future Will Be Like Perfume" at Markthalle, Hamburg(6th February - March 7th 1993)

Chronology

LEGENDS:

 1-  Solo Album
 2 - Solo Single
 3 - Album production or coproduction
 4 - Remix production
 5-  Primary collaboration
 6 - Guest appearance / secondary collaboration
 7 - Selected comissions to score music
 8 - Audio - video installations
 9 - Slide installation
10 - Lectures
11-  Other - misc.

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3 FEAR OF MUSIC: Talking Heads (Sire) 5 LODGER: David Bowie (RCA) 6 EXPOSURE: Robert Fripp (EG) 6 IN A LAND OF CLEAR COLOURS: Robert Sheckley (limited edition of 1000 copies with book)(Galeria el Mensajero, Ibiza) 8 KITCHEN CENTRE, New York - June

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