- Audio CD (May 27 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Best of
- Label: Editions Eg Records
- ASIN: B000003S27
- In-Print Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #178,805 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Wind On Water |
| 2. Evening Star |
| 3. Evensong |
| 4. Wind On Wind |
| 5. An Index Of Metals |
Product Description
Album Description
Eno's ambient innovations were in full flower when he met Fripp again on this 1975 LP. This is a meditative journey through calm seas and skies: Wind on Water; Evening Star; Evensong; Wind on Wind , and An Index of Metals . Still entrancing and enduringly influential!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ghost of the machine,
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This review is from: Evening Star (Audio CD)
A second collaborative experimental album by both Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, 'Evening Star' proved to be a little more varied than it's predecessor 'No Pussyfooting'. Both musicians seemed to have got a tighter grip on the mechanics of the endless decaying tape loop system they used on the first album and as a consequence 'Evening Star' is more expressive.'Evening Star' begins however where 'No Pussyfooting' left off with the heavy layered harmonics of 'Wind on Water' fading in and up to greater and greater intensity. We then reach Fripp & Eno's most radical departure, the title track itself. 'Evening Star' contrasts with the rest of the album as it contains some semblance of a melody (no matter how sparse and repetitive). The contrast between the melodic backing and Fripp's stark improvisations work to great effect. Fripp almost sounds like he's playing a small string quartet all by himself. 'Evensong' comes and goes with nothing to recommend it while ironically the next track, Eno's 'Wind on Wind' seems to create more than the previous one with even less instrumentation. What's so pleasing about the final 20 minute 'Index of Metals' is that it disrupts the notion that this album is wallpaper music. I don't see how anyone could find peace and sustainence in something as menacing sounding as this. The whole track jars intensely like the soundtrack for some sinister dystopia run by machines. Both Fripp and Eno reached the limits of their experimental collaboration with 'Evening Star', which is a shame as this album was an improvement on the previous one and it would have been interesting to see where they could have taken it from here.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Like being greeted into heaven...,
By Asmodeus (Spring Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Evening Star (Audio CD)
When I first heard this album, I was stricken like a man hit by lightning... I was stopped dead in my tracks... Just sitting and listening to it's sheer beauty of harmonics with my eyes closed was pure bliss...Listening to 'Evening Star' alone made me imagine that this is the majestic music that pervades heaven... As if i died and this is what i would hear as my soul transcended onto it's way to heaven and being greeted like an old friend who hasn't been seen in a long time... It's ethereal and warm embrace still strikes a chord with me to this day and whenever i hear it i actually start to silently cry, like i am now as i am listening to it and typing this for all of you people to read... Fripp & Eno were touched by the divine in the making of this pure beautific construction of sound...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Profoundly beautiful,
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This review is from: Evening Star (Audio CD)
This is a work of sheer beauty. The title track is magnificant pastoral of a simple piano progression and Fripp's soaring guitar and is worth the price of admission. The 'second side' is the abstract 'Index of Metals' 20-odd minutes of layered guitar and synth loops under some of the most beautiful axe-work Mr. Fripp has unleashed. The soon-to-be-dubbed "Frippertronics" technique is shown here in all of it's glory, tape saturation and decay...missing in the digital technique adds texture and timbre. No, this is NOT for everybody, but try a taste....it could become one of your favorite albums (as it is mine)
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