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Ambient pioneer, glam-rocker, hit producer, multi-media artist, technological innovator, worldbeat proponent and self-described non-musician, Brian Eno started his career as a founding member of Roxy Music. Leaving the band in 1973, he began his solo career with the album Here Come The Warm Jets, followed by a string of critically acclaimed records including Music For Airports. Collaborators include John Cale, Nico, Robert Fripp, and David Bowie. As a producer, credits include work with Geoffrey Oreyama; U2’s The Joshua Tree, Unforgettable Fire, Zooropa, and Achtung Baby; and David Bowie’s Outside.

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Ambient pioneer, glam-rocker, hit producer, multi-media artist, technological innovator, worldbeat proponent and self-described non-musician, Brian Eno started his career as a founding member of Roxy Music. Leaving the band in 1973, he began his solo career with the album Here Come The Warm Jets, followed by a string of critically acclaimed records including Music For Airports. Collaborators include John Cale, Nico, Robert Fripp, and David Bowie. As a producer, credits include work with Geoffrey Oreyama; U2’s The Joshua Tree, Unforgettable Fire, Zooropa, and Achtung Baby; and David Bowie’s Outside.

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    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (LP)
    February 3, 2009

    David Byrne and Brian Eno stumbled onto the future with this groundbreaking work, using found sounds and trance-like rhythms, anticipating innovations of contemporary electronic dance music, world music, even hip-hop. The 25th-anniversary re-mastered version includes seven previously unreleased tracks. This 12" double-vinyl release on 180-gram vinyl includes additional drum, vocal, and ambient tracks for "Help Me Somebody" and "A Secret Life" not available on CD or MP3.

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  • October 4, 2025
    Watch: Brian Eno Talks Steve Reich with the New York Times' Ezra Klein

    "Steve Reich was a very important part of my listening," Brian Eno tells the New York Times' Ezra Klein. "All of his work, I think, depends on making your brain perform and watch itself performing in a certain way. So I suddenly thought then, ‘Oh, the composer isn’t just Steve Reich. It’s Steve Reich and my brain that’s making this composition what it is.’ And that thought never left me, that you actually are engaging the technology of the listener’s brain to complete the piece. They’re not passive.” You can watch and hear their conversation here.

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  • September 10, 2018
    Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno & David Byrne Make Pitchfork's "The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s" List

    Pitchfork has published its list of "The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s," which it hopes "represents the best of what this innovative decade has to offer." Among the "icons who defined a decade" are Steve Reich for Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint, featuring Kronos Quartet and Pat Metheny, Brian Eno and David Byrne for My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and Laurie Anderson for Big Science.

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About Brian Eno

  • Ambient pioneer, glam-rocker, hit producer, multi-media artist, technological innovator, worldbeat proponent and self-described non-musician, Brian Eno started his career as a founding member of Roxy Music. Leaving the band in 1973, he began his solo career with the album Here Come The Warm Jets, followed by a string of critically acclaimed records including Music For Airports. Collaborators include John Cale, Nico, Robert Fripp, and David Bowie. As a producer, credits include work with Geoffrey Oreyama; U2’s The Joshua Tree, Unforgettable Fire, Zooropa, and Achtung Baby; and David Bowie’s Outside.

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