Mr. Eno chat’s with The Strand’s Mark Coles. Listen here.

Brian Eno has written a very nice article for The Guardian about his friend Jon Hassell.

We had a lot to talk about. We had both come through experimental music traditions – the European one, as exemplified by Stockhausen and Cornelius Cardew, and the American one of Cage and Terry Riley and LaMonte Young. At the same time, we were aware of the beauty and sophistication of all the music being made outside our culture – what is now called “world music”. And we were both intrigued by the possibilities of new musical technology.

Or so says a list compiled by “six experts in creativity and innovation from Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm”. Eno is in fact #15 on the list of 100. Visit the Daily Telegraph for the full story.

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Brian Eno has written a commentary in The Guardian, titled This ban will not stop us.

Our leaders would undoubtedly be happy if we “moved on” from Iraq. They don’t want to talk about it any more: it was a dreadful blunder, and reflects little credit on any of them. Presumably this is why the question has hardly been debated in parliament. Although the majority of the public were always against the war, this was not reflected by their elected representatives. The government behaved in a way that was transparently undemocratic but the Conservatives won’t call them on it, for without their almost unanimous support the whole project couldn’t have happened.

To be released December 15th, a new book documenting Eno’s Another Green World album. Here’s the official synopsis:

It was the strange and mystical Another Green World (1975) that was the cosmic bridge between Old Eno and New Eno, between Rock and Ambient, between the guitar and the synthesizer, between the old world and electronic music as we know it. Another Green World was a total paradigm shift, an introduction to a new way of thinking: for Eno, and for the world of popular music. For this book, Geeta Dayal will interview Eno, and his many collaborators on this album. She’ll dig into the album, excavate its odd past, and untangle how, exactly, it was a link to the future of electronic music – by foreshadowing how powerful, personal, and emotional this music could be.

I vaguely recall this. Back in 1995, Bowie conceived his Outside project; an ambitious, quasi-industrial, nonlinear “narrative of art and murder”. Brian Eno was also an accomplice. The plan was to release one album a year from 1995 to 1999. Anyway, watch these promotional, quasi-interviews promoting the forgotten opus (in three parts) here.

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