TRAKS MAGAZINE #13

eprint
Brian Eno
Brian Eno will publish a collection
of new, rare and unreleased
tracks, Music For Installations,
via UMG on May 4th. The new
collection will be available in a selection
of formats: in fact, there
will be the possibility to purchase
a limited edition 6CD super deluxe
box set, including a 64-page plexiglass
cover and a download card,
and as a standard 6CD edition, also
with the 64-page book. In addition,
it will be available as a super deluxe
9LP vinyl box set, with a 64-page
book and a download card. This is
the first time that some tracks of
Music For Installations will be available
on vinyl. Musician, producer,
visual artist, thinker and activist,
Brian Eno first came to interna-
tional prominence in the early ‘70s
as a founding member of Roxy
Music, which was followed immediately
by a series of critically
praised and influential solo albums.
His visionary production work
includes albums
with David
Bowie, Talking
Heads, Devo,
Laurie Anderson,
while
his long list of
collaborations
includes recordings
with John
Cale, David
Byrne, Grace
Jones. Less popular,
though equally worthy of
note, are his visual experiments.
These are the fertile ground from
which most of his other works
have grown; they cover an even
longer time frame than his recordings,
and in the last decades they
have paralleled his musical production.
These highly acclaimed
works have been
exhibited all over the
world. Brian Eno said
of the collection: “If you
think of music as a moving
form, changeable, and painting as
an immobile
form, what I’m
trying to do is
compose very
motionless music
and moving
paintings. I’m
trying to find
in both forms,
the space
between the
traditional concept
of music
and the traditional concept of
painting “. Music For Installations
is a collection of new, rare and
unreleased tracks, which will be
available for the first time on vinyl.
All the material has been recorded
by Eno for use in its installations
covering the period from 1986 until
today (and beyond)
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