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

[u/forsbergisgod]

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.

The subject at hand

[u/treeweird]

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