Evening Star (album)

Evening Star
Studio album by Fripp & Eno
Released	December 1975
Recorded	1974–1975
Genre	Ambient, drone
Length	47:43
Label	EG
Producer	Brian Eno & Robert Fripp
Fripp & Eno chronology
(No Pussyfooting) (1973) Evening Star (1975) The Equatorial Stars (2004)
Robert Fripp chronology
(No Pussyfooting) (1973) Evening Star (1975) Exposure (1979)
Brian Eno chronology
Another Green World (1975) Evening Star (1975) Discreet Music (1975)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Fiki	(8.0/10)
Spin	[2]
Pitchfork Media	(8.6/10) [3]
Robert Christgau	B+ [4]
Piero Scaruffi	(6/10)[5]

Evening Star (1975) is an ambient album by the British musicians Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. The cover is a painting by the artist Peter Schmidt.

The first three tracks are serene, gentle tape-looped guitar textures performed by Robert Fripp and accented with treatments, synthesizer and piano by Brian Eno.

Track four, "Wind on Wind", is an excerpt from Eno’s solo project Discreet Music, which was released after this album. Eno had originally intended Fripp to use the material which became Discreet Music as a backing tape to play over in improvised live performances.

The second half of the album is a twenty-four minute piece of drone music titled "An Index of Metals" (expanded to twenty-eight minutes on the CD editions), in which guitar notes are accumulated in a loop, with distortion increasing as the track progresses.

Tracks from this album were used for the music on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary Phase. Also, "Wind on Water" and "Wind on Wind" were included in the 1983 film Breathless soundtrack.

Track listing

All tracks written by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp except where indicated

Side one

1. "Wind on Water" – 5:30
2. "Evening Star" – 7:48
3. "Evensong" – 2:53
4. "Wind on Wind" (Brian Eno) – 2:56

Side two

1. "An Index of Metals" – 28:36

Personnel

• Robert Fripp – guitar
• Brian Eno – tape loops, synthesizer, piano
• Peter Schmidt – cover painting

Notes

References

• Weisbard, Eric; Craig Marks (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.  Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)