Brian Eno Factfile

BRIAN ENO

Brian Eno has been an absolutely massive part of our process. Week in week out, his music has been played as stimulus, accompaniment and a main focus.
Born in Suffolk, Eno studied painting and experimental music at art school in the late 1960s before joining glam rock group Roxy Music as synthesizer player in 1971. After recording two albums with the band, he departed in 1973 to record a number of solo albums, contributing to and ultimately coining the concept of ambient music.

His discography includes:

        ALBUM NAME           (YEAR)     LABEL

• Here Come the Warm Jets (1974), Island
• Taking Tiger Mountain (1974), Island
• Another Green World (1975), Island
• Discreet Music (1975), Obscure
• Before and After Science (1977), Polydor
• Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978), Polydor
• Music for Films (1978), Polydor
• Ambient 4: On Land (1982), EG
• Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (1983), E.G.
• More Music for Films (1983), E.G.
• Thursday Afternoon (1985), E.G.
• Nerve Net (1992), Opal
• The Shutov Assembly (1992), Warner Bros.
• Neroli (1993), All Saints
• The Drop (1997), Thirsty Ear
• Another Day on Earth (2005), Hannibal
• Small Craft on a Milk Sea (2010), Warp
• The Ship (2016), Warp
• Reflection (2017), Warp
• Ambient installation albums[edit]
• Extracts from Music for White Cube, London 1997 (1997), Opal
• Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace (1997), Opal
• I Dormienti (1999), Opal
• Kite Stories (1999), Opal
• Music for Civic Recovery Centre (2000), Opal
• Compact Forest Proposal (2001), Opal
• January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now (2003), Opal
• Making Space (2010), Opal
• Lux (2012), Warp

Personal life and beliefs: 

• Eno has referred to himself as "kind of an Evangelical Atheist" but has also professed an interest in religion.
• The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition mobile phone features exclusive music composed by Eno. Between 8 January 2007 and 12 February 2007, ten units of Nokia 8800 Sirocco Brian Eno Signature Edition mobile phones, individually numbered and engraved with Eno's signature were auctioned off. All proceeds went to two charities chosen by Eno: the Keiskamma AIDS treatment program and The World Land Trust
• In 1967, at the age of 18, Eno married his first wife Sarah Grenville. They had a daughter, Hannah, born in July 1967, before divorcing. Eno married his manager Anthea Norman-Taylor in 1988; they have two daughters, Irial and Darla.