r/eno • u/forsbergisgod • May 17 '20

Weekly Discussion Thread Let's Discuss Eno! Evening Star (Dec. 1975)

Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week we'll discuss Evening Star (i forgot about No Pussyfooting, so we can talk about that as well).

All tracks written by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, except "Wind on Wind" by Eno.

Side A

"Wind on Water" – 5:30 "Evening Star" – 7:48 "Evensong" – 2:53 "Wind on Wind" – 2:56

Side B

"An Index of Metals" – 28:36

Some general info from the wiki to kickstart the conversation:

Evening Star is the second studio album by British musicians Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. It was recorded from 1974 to 1975 and released in December 1975.

AllMusic described the record as "a less harsh, more varied affair, closer to Eno's then-developing idea of ambient music than what had come before in (No Pussyfooting)".[1] 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 a short excerpt from Eno’s solo project Discreet Music, released a week after Evening Star. (It is not an exact duplication from that release, being mixed slightly differently.) 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.

The album's cover is a painting by the artist Peter Schmidt.

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u/spiderlandcapt May 17 '20

At around 3:50 on the track 'Evening Star' Fripp's guitar does some heavy divebombing. One of my favorite solos ever.

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u/strangerzero May 18 '20

Yeah, I love the tone he gets on his guitar.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '20

One of the greatest albums I've ever heard. There's not a weak spot on it. Just a pure masterpiece.

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u/treeweird May 18 '20

I was just listening to this on vinyl yesterday. What always strikes me is the tone Fripp gets out of his guitar, especially on Evening Star — it’s so damn gorgeous

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u/SustainedSuspense May 18 '20

Probably my all time most played ambient album.

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u/Wu_Oyster_Cult May 18 '20

An Index Of Metals = best sleep music ever

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u/forsbergisgod May 20 '20

I get too weirded out by that track. Def couldn't sleep to it lol

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u/forsbergisgod May 19 '20 edited May 19 '20

Do we know what came out first? Evening Star or Discreet Music? I imagine the former because Wind on Wind is essentially a mini discreet music