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Evening Star
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0633367051622
Label: Dgm / Inner Knot
Manufacturer: Dgm / Inner Knot
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Dgm / Inner Knot
Release Date: 2008-10-21
Studio: Dgm / Inner Knot
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Customer reviews of Evening Star
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Thank you, Robert Fripp, for perfecting this masterpiece
Comment: I've always been an agnostic when it comes to remastered versions of classic albums. However, this brilliant album was remastered by Robert Fripp himself, along with Simon Heyworth. As a result, the integrity of the music is maintained while the quality of the recording stands head and shoulders above the remastering attempts of others.
"Wind on Water," which originally sounded more or less like solid chords, is revealed as an intricate network of looped sounds. "Evensong" likewise is exposed as having much greater depth than I ever suspected. As for "Evening Star," a piece of music so beautiful it seems as though it simply dropped out of heaven, it's even richer.
However, it is "An Index of Metals" that stands as a testament to the skill of Fripp and Heyworth. I've listened to this piece hundreds of times, and it never sounded like this. The depth, the clarity, and the dynamics that are present in this remastering are unparalleled in any remastered CD I've ever heard.
If you love this album, throw out your 1990 version and buy this one today.
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Summary: Music For the Stars!!!
Comment: "Evening Star" from 1975 was the second collaboration from Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. Like their previous album "No Pussyfooting", this album was a groundbreaking experiment that paved the way for Ambient and New Age Music long before it became commonplace in the 1980's.
Unlike "No Pussyfooting's" lengthy spontaneous excursions, "Evening Star" seems to have more of a fixed 'composed' structure but is still full of endless experimentation.
The album opens with the cascading "Wind on Water" which consists of an endless stream of looped guitar phrases. This flows seamlessly into the beautiful extended title track which consists of a repeat guitar riff in which both Fripp and Eno solo over. The interplay between Fripp's sustained guitar solos and Eno's piano and muted synth leads are wonderfully executed and are full of lush romanticism.
The next two pieces are shorter in nature but are as equally affective as the previous two tracks. "Evensong" is a short minimalist piece which consists of a treated guitar phrase while "Wind on Wind" is in fact a three-minute variation on the title track to Brian Eno's solo "Discreet Music" album. While the notes and phrases are nearly identical to Eno's 30-minute original, the timbre seems to be more muted and brassy here.
Finally, to close the album, Fripp and Eno pull out the stops with the epic "An Index of Metals". At 28-minutes, this is still the longest piece of music Fripp and Eno have made as a duo (although Eno has gone on to make even longer pieces by himself). An unsettling mix of blurry guitar and synth tones slowly fade in which in turn give way to chilling loops of guitar feedback. Repeated phrases drift into one another seamlessly ranging from the suspenseful to beautiful. At around the 23-minute mark, an organ-like drone accompanied by otherworldly sounds fade in which slowly drift into looped distortion carrying the piece to its finish.
At one point in time, "Evening Star" was readily available but in recent years, seems to have become an out-of-print collector's item. Rumors are flying that this album along with "No Pussyfooting" have been remastered and are set to be reissued soon. One can only hope that this is true. This is definitely an album that needs to be heard by many and not just the elite Fripp and Eno fan. The music on this album was way ahead of its time when it was released and now over 30 years later, it still is.
Definitely Worth Searching For!!!
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Summary: A stunning ambient (if that's what you want to call it) masterpiece
Comment: Evening Star is a work of eerie, meditative beauty and quiet grace. Its five tracks are awash in hypnotic wonder and electrified energy, creating intricate and evocative sculptures out of pure sound. Images and emotions emerge naturally out these gorgeous creations- listen to the slow, breathtaking build of "Wind On Water," the way Robert Fripp's guitars saturate the air with dense clusters of feedback, condensing in a slow and arrhythmic throb around Brian Eno's lush treatments. It's serene, beautiful, and unsettling all at once, like watching a raw sunrise in some cool and oceanic desert (in other words, it sounds like the cover painting). The title track sees Fripp and Eno creating a meditative swirl of guitar and piano, with dreamy strings of distortion squirming over beautiful melodies. "An Index Of Metals," the album's epic closer, sees Eno slowly looping layer after layer of Fripp's guitars on top of one another, creating a amorphous bubble of pure, labyrinthine, dream-inducing noise. There's also "Wind On Wind," which is a quietly enchanting excerpt from Eno's solo project, "Discreet Music." "Evensong" is full of otherworldly keyboards and lush textures. It's incredible stuff, and a classic album, not matter what genre you want to lump it into.
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Summary: Adroit Ambient
Comment: Quite simply put, this is an extraordinary piece of ambient music. Put this disc on and sail away to a dreamland created by just loops, synths and guitar by music gurus Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. Taken in it's context, as material recorded over thirty years ago, when such esperimental doings were unheard of, this disc is a classic. Although hard to find , like anything, it is possible, and at a good price if you have patience and persistence; seek and you shall fine this gem. The music is peaceful and takes you away to the far niches of your minds imagination. It is good music for day dreaming, artistic endeavors,reading or just chill'n.I especially love the title track, "Evening Star," with it's repetitive trickling of notes that hang, suspended in time and reborn on the following track."Evening Song" takes off where "Evening Star" ends, rising to new heights, soaring above the seemingly endless drone, more forceful and full of energy transitioning into the peaceful "Wind on Water" that is like a meditative musical trance, with elements of Eastern influences, much like a call to prayer; a unity of mind and spirit results from the experience longing for more. The track, "An Index of Metals" has a beautiful, although, almost a modern sound, that is unnearving to the point of anxiety , much like the effects of high tension in a movie. Picture a walk in dark alley and coming upon a door you must enter, not knowing what lies beyond. The seemingly dissonant tune has an eerie feel to it, it creeps along slowly, fluctuating with errant intervals into the unknown musical spaces. The intensity builds but never climaxes until it's over when a lingering silence signals the end. Although not for everyone I would still recommend this disc for people who like either of these two artists or someone looking for some ambient music well ahead of it's time.
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Summary: Ambient Gold
Comment: The successor to Robert Fripp and Brian Eno's first effort "No Pussyfooting", "Evening Star" is a stunning achievement of master musicianship and studio technology. "No Pussyfooting" is a good album but Fripp & Eno's growth as collaborative partners on "Evening Star" is phenomenal. This is the very definition of intelligent, gorgeous, subtle ambient music. On the vinyl version (I had to replace it with the CD years ago I had played it so much) the first side is comprised of the first four songs on the CD that reflect the wind, water and sky in the titles and indeed, the images conjured up by the songs themselves. "An Index of Metals" was on the B-side and is a little different than the first half of the album. It's definitely a darker animal, sounding like a more mature version of the two tracks from "No Pussyfooting". At the time this review was written it appears that "Evening Star" is currently out of print. That's a real shame as this work definitely qualifies as a truly essential Eno (and Fripp) masterpiece. You might want to hurry up and acquire their terrific newest CD "The Equatorial Stars" before that goes out of print as well!
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