About

Roger Eno is a British composer and musician whose distinctive style as a recording artist has attracted a cult following. In 2020 he made his debut on Deutsche Grammophon with Mixing Colours, his first duo album with his brother, Brian Eno, which was released to great acclaim. 

Eno was born in the Suffolk market town of Woodbridge. He became immersed in music at school and bought a battered upright piano with money earned every Saturday as a butcher’s boy. His musical education continued at Colchester Institute School of Music. After a brief interlude playing jazz piano in private clubs in London, he returned to East Anglia. As well as first collaborating with his brother Brian and Daniel Lanois in 1983 on Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, he has made over a dozen solo albums and other collaborative pieces with the likes of Peter Hammill, The Orb and his first “band”, the ambient supergroup Channel Light Vessel, whose line-up included Laraaji, Kate St. John, Bill Nelson and Japanese cellist Mayumi Tachibana. He’s also teamed up as a session musician and band member with artists as diverse as The Orb, Lou Reed, Jarvis Cocker and Beck, and not to mention his three-year stint as Musical Director for Tim Robbins and his band, The Rogues Gallery. 

This LP is an addendum to The Skies, They Shift Like Chords, spelling out Roger Eno’s further classical arrangements for keys, strings and voice, subtly gilded with synths and including unreleased material. As well as solo piano pieces, Rarities includes one track for choir and electronics (“Patterned Ground”), and one for string orchestra (“Breaking The Surface”), for which the instrumentalists of Scoring Berlin were asked to both play from the score and improvise. Guitarist Jon Goddard, meanwhile, appears on “Into Silence”, giving the track what Eno calls “a particular flavour it would otherwise have lacked”. — (via Label)

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Format: LP, Album
Country: Worldwide
Released: 2024
Genre: Classical
Style: Contemporary

File under: Modern Classical
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