Late Junction - 11/09/2008

Robert Sandall celebrates Brian Eno at 60, with music from four decades of Eno’s career. Eno first came to fame as the synthesizer player in glam-rock band Roxy Music, but he already had experimental credentials from playing with the avant-garde Scratch Orchestra. After Roxy Music he pursued more artistic concepts, coming up with the idea of Ambient Music in 1975, and bringing his high-concept approach to collaborations with David Bowie on the albums Low and Heroes, as well as ex-King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp, ex-Velvet Underground member John Cale and Californian minimalist Harold Budd. He's also credited with pioneering sampling culture with the album My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, made with ex-Talking Heads singer David Byrne in the 1980s. You can hear music from all these collaborations in this programme, along with some of Eno's ambient classics including Music For Airports and Apollo; and a track from his brand-new album with David Byrne. Thursday 11th September 11:15 Eno: Another Green World Brian Eno Taken from the album Another Green World VIRGIN ENOCD3 11:17 Byrne/Eno: Strange Attractor Brian Eno; David Byrne Taken from the album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Available for download Aug.18 at www.everythingthathappens.com 11:21 Eno: An Ending (ascent) Brian Eno Taken from the album Apollo Virgin 7243 563647-2 11:26 Eno: Thsi Brian Eno Taken from the album Another Day on Earth OPAL HNCD1475 11:29 Eno/Wobble: Transmitter and Trumpet Brian Eno; Jah Wobble Taken from the album Spinner All Saints ASCD 23 11:39 Eno/Connie Plank: Music For Airports Taken from the album Ambient 1: Music for Airports Virgin ENOCD6 11:49 Bowie/Eno/Alomar: The Secret Life of Arabia Taken from the album Heroes EMI 7243 5219080 11:53 Cardew: The Great Learning, Paragraph 7 The Scratch Orchestra/Cornelius Cardew Deutsche Grammophon 2561 107 12:13 Byrne/Eno: The Jezebel Spirit Brian Eno; David Byrne Taken from the album My life in the bush of ghosts Nonesuch 79894 12:18 Budd/Eno: Their Memories Brian Eno; Harold Budd Taken from the album Ambient (A brief history of ambient) Vol.1 Virgin AMBT 1 12:21 Fripp/Eno: Timean Sparkles Taken from the album Beyond Even DGM 0702 12:24 Tchaikovsky, Arr. Portsmouth Sinfonia: Sugar Plum Fairy Taken from the album Portsmouth Sinfonia Plays Popular Classics Transatlantic TRA275 12:27 Eno: 1-14 January 07003, hard bells, Hillis Algorhythm Taken from the album Bell studies for the Clock of the Long Now OPAL CD02 12:33 Eno/Cale: Grandfather’s House Brian Eno; John Cale Taken from the album Wrong Way Up All Saints HNCD 1485 12:36 John White: Son of Gothic Chord Christopher Hobbs (piano) Taken from the album Machine Music Obscure OBS 8 12:47 Eno, Arr. Michael Gordon: Music For Airports (1/1) Taken from the album Bang on a Can All-Stars Point 5368472