Eno Piano, by Bruce Brubaker

Eno Piano

by Bruce Brubaker

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1.	Music For Airports, 1/1 17:10	buy track
2.	Music For Airports, 2/1 08:31	buy track
3.	The Chill Air 01:55	buy track
4.	By This River 03:31	buy track
5.	Music For Airports, 2/2 06:09	buy track
6.	Emerald and Stone 02:26	buy track

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As Brian Eno famously said, "The studio is a musical instrument," Bruce Brubaker now says, "A musical instrument can be a studio." Can a single instrument convey ambient music originally made through studio techniques and tape loops? On November 10, 2023, InFiné will release American musician Bruce Brubaker's 12th studio album Eno Piano, including a selection of Brian Eno's iconic ambient music, including Music for Airports. Eno Piano is a companion to Bruce Brubaker's acclaimed album Glass Piano (2015) — even the two album covers are companions. Named by Pitchfork "One of the most exciting pianists in the contemporary American classical scene," Brubaker, in Eno Piano, shows that just as the studio can be a musical instrument, a single musical instrument can be a studio.

Brian Eno's music is a significant part of the repetition-based musical minimalism practiced by Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and others in the 20th century. In 1971, Philip Glass performed at the Royal College of Art in London. In the audience were two 23-year-olds: David Bowie and Brian Eno. Glass's music was a formative influence on Eno. Then later, Philip Glass wrote three symphonies based on the three albums of Eno and Bowie's Berlin Trilogy. Eno Piano acknowledges a deep artistic bond. Brian Eno defined the new genre of "ambient music."

Spending hours waiting for a flight at the Cologne-Bonn Airport, Eno became frustrated with the airport's uninspiring atmosphere. At that moment, Eno conceived an album of music "designed for airports" In his original 1978 liner notes, he explained: "Whereas conventional background music is produced by stripping away all sense of doubt and uncertainty (and thus all genuine interest) from the music, Ambient Music retains these qualities. And whereas their intention is to 'brighten' the environment by adding stimulus to it (thus supposedly alleviating the tedium of routine tasks and leveling out the natural ups and downs of the body rhythms) Ambient Music is intended to induce calm and a space to think. Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."

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released November 10, 2023

Music by Brian Eno
Track 1 (Music for Airports, 1/1), music by Brian Eno, Rhett Davies, Robert Wyatt. Published by Universal Music MGB Publishing & BMG Rights Management Ltd
Track 2 (Music for Airports, 2/1) & track 5 (Music for Airports, 2/2), music by Brian Eno. Published by Universal Music MGB Publishing
Track 3 (The Chill Air), music by Brian Eno, Harold Budd. Published by Universal Music MGB Publishing
Track 4 (By This River), music by Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Rodelius. Published by E.G Music Ltd & Universal Music MGB Publishing
Track 5 (Music for Airports, 2/2), music by Brian Eno. Published by Universal Music MGB Publishing
Track 6 (Emerald and Stone), music by Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins, Leo Abrahams. Published by Opal Music

Arrangements by Bruce Brubaker (tracks 3, 4, 6) & by Bruce Brubaker & Simon Hanes (tracks 1, 2, 5). Additional editing by Nicholas Prout

Performed by Bruce Brubaker
Electro-magnetic bows by Florent Colautti

Recorded & mixed by Martin Antiphon at Studio Besco
Piano tuned by Bastien Herblin, assisted by Loïc Colin
Produced by Bruce Brubaker, Martin Antiphon & Alexandre Cazac
Mastered by Alexis Bardinet & Lorenzo Bassaletti @ Globe Audio Mastering Bordeaux

A&R by Alexandre Cazac

Photography by Devin Doyle. Artwork Design by Motoplastic

Bruce Brubaker thanks Brian, Ray, LaMonte, Meredith, Paula, Ran, Alexandre, Yannick, Enora, Marine, & the entire InFiné team

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“Bruce Brubaker is one of the most exciting pianists in the contemporary American classical scene.” — Pitchfork

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Eno Piano

Nov 2023
Glassforms Versions

Jan 2021
Glassforms

Nov 2020
Codex Versions

Sep 2018
Codex

Jan 2018
Glass Piano

Oct 2015
Glass Piano Versions

Oct 2015

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