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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/eqs1QJFeHCA" [...]

Krimson-News.com announced today that DGM will begin accepting pre-orders September 1st for Unreleased Works of Startling Genius, a collaboration between Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. The initial release will be a limited-edition 2 CD set with one of the CDs “running in a continuous mix”. Mark your calendars.