Evening Star (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Evening Star
Type = Album
Artist = Fripp & Eno


Released = December, 1975
Recorded = 1974–1975
Genre = Ambient, Drone
Length = 47:43
Label = EG Records
Producer = Brian Eno & Robert Fripp
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:azfuxqu5ldke link]
* "Spin" Rating|8|10Weisbard & Marks, 1995. p.129]
*"The Quietus [http://www.thequietus.com/articles/fripp-eno link]
Last album = "(No Pussyfooting)" (1973)
This album = "Evening Star" (1975)
Next album = "The Equatorial Stars" (2004)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Robert Fripp
Type = album
Last album = "(No Pussyfooting)" (1973)
This album = "Evening Star" (1975)
Next album = "Exposure" (1979) Extra chronology 2
Artist = Brian Eno
Type = album
Last album = "Another Green World" (1975)
This album = "Evening Star" (1975)
Next album = "Discreet Music" (1975)

"Evening Star" (1975) is an album by the British ambient musicians Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. The cover is a painting by the artist Peter Schmidt.

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 an excerpt from Eno’s solo project "Discreet Music", which was released after this album. 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 groundbreaking 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.

Tracks from this album were used for the music on the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary Phase.

Track listing

All tracks written by Brian Eno & Robert Fripp; except where indicated

ide one

# "Wind on Water" – 5:30
# "Evening Star" – 7:48
# "Evensong" – 2:53
# "Wind on Wind" (Brian Eno) – 2:56

ide two

# "An Index of Metals" – 28:36

Personnel

* Robert Fripp - guitar
* Brian Eno - tape loops, synthesizer, piano
* Peter Schmidt - cover painting

Notes

References

*cite book
last= Weisbard
first= Eric
coauthors= Craig Marks
title= Spin Alternative Record Guide
publisher= Vintage Books
year= 1995
isbn= 0679755748