Evening Star (album)
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-eight minute piece of drone music titled "An Index of Metals", 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
- "Wind on Water" – 5:30
- "Evening Star" – 7:48
- "Evensong" – 2:53
- "Wind on Wind" (Brian Eno) – 2:56
Side two
- "An Index of Metals" – 28:36
Personnel
Notes
References
- Weisbard, Eric; Craig Marks (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
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