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 perspective behind them.
“With out the works of Brian Eno, I completely wouldn’t be making music in the present day. That may sound somewhat dramatic, however over time I’ve come to grasp that each one that I maintain of curiosity within the creation and association of sound has its roots within the instruments and methods which have been pioneered by this unassuming artwork pupil 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 countless quest to confound his personal expectations. From his debut document 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 abilities 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 recent and ingenious 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 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.
In brief, 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 rather more than he wants us. His pioneering studio methods 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 popular tipple of alternative at pubs up and down the UK.”
