Evening Star

by Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Fripp & Eno

Overview

Robert Fripp's second team up with Brian Eno was a less harsh, more varied affair, closer to Eno's then-developing idea of ambient music than what had come before in (No Pussyfooting). The method used, once again, was the endless decaying tape loop system of Frippertronics but refined with pieces such as "Wind on Water" fading up into an already complex bed of layered synths and treated guitar over which Fripp plays long, languid solos. "Evening Star" is meditative and calm with gentle scales rocking to and fro while Fripp solos on top. "Wind on Wind" is Eno solo, an excerpt from the soon to be released Discreet Music album. The nearly 30-minute ending piece, "An Index of Metals," keeps Evening Star from being a purely background listen as the loops this time contain a series of guitar distortions layered to the nth degree, Frippertronics as pure dissonance. As a culmination of Fripp and Eno's experiments, Evening Star shows how far they could go. ~ Ted Mills

Product Details

Release Date:	05/27/2014
Label:	Discipline Global Music / E1 Entertainment / Panegyric
UPC:	0633367911711
Rank:	56136

Tracks

1. Wind on Water
2. Evening Star
3. Evensong
4. Wind on Wind
5. An Index of Metals

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Fripp & Eno   Primary Artist
Robert Fripp   Primary Artist,Guitar
Brian Eno   Primary Artist,Loops,Keyboards,Synthesizer

Technical Credits

Robert Fripp   Producer
Rhett Davies   Engineer
Brian Eno   Producer,Performer
Philip Chapman   Engineer
Denny Bridges   Engineer
Bob Bowkett   Typography
Tim Young   Digital Mastering