Arena - Brian Eno - Another Green World

[@ethereal-11.11]

At 60 years old, I am amazed at how few of the hero's of my past still seem legit/ street cred, compelling and not a preening schmo caricature of themselves. Eno is at once, youthful, playful, charming, academic in the best sense of the word, unpretentious, honest and of course, still a genius.

[@aegisfate117]

you a real one too, 11:11

[@ethereal-11.11]

@Andrew Atlas We don’t care, get a life!

[@michaelkenyon6173]

Well said.... Eno a part of my inner voice soundtrack. Artist always exploring. He’s always about the experience, the experiment. Just can’t think of anyone else quite like him. Those who have collaborated with him are also fond of this pioneer.

[@shadofaxes]

Very well said.

[@CORBARocks]

I agree. And I seemed to have known him my whole life. Brian Eno: thank you, for everything.

[@TheSoundvisionary]

We need a documentary for each Eno album.

[@hughtuck5147]

Such a thing (more or less) is available in the form of On Some Faraway Beach, by David Shappard, which goes into some detail of Brian's biog. if not LP by LP - now that *would* be a long book - but at least chunking up his output up into some meaningful groups...

[@douglasanderson8636]

I played a lot of Eno ambient music in the house while my daughter was a toddler..it made her relaxed and happy.

[@robertkahn6817]

Had a great day in Brian Eno's studio 20 years ago. Very polite, he even let me contribute a track to one of his Generative Music pieces.

[@Mrconnorx100]

Eno is one of the few musicians I would call an absolute genius

[@jmsjms296]

What does that mean?

[@ManNoName-c9u]

@@jmsjms296 'Absolute' adjective; free from imperfection or unadulterated, 'genius' noun; a person with an exceptional natural capacity of intellect, usually in reference to creative arts or science. Yeah, OK, I had to google it, but you looked like you needed some help.

I do agree, though Eno would call it Scenius

[@doronron7323]

As an art student in the mid 70's I was hugely impressed with Roxy Music. Indeed they were very popular. In those days, record stores would play an album for you. This was a great way of exposing ones self to something different. I bought 'Ambient Music' without realising it was Eno. I was asked by the majority around me if they could borrow this 'strange' music. And a few actually got it! All these years later I still find Eno's music stimulating and rewarding. I'd like 'Here Come The Warm Jets' played at my funeral. It is sublime.

[@SongOfItself]

21:51 OK, so it's refreshing to find out that even Brian Eno is actually a human being and can get his facts wrong :-) "State of Independence" is a song written by Vangelis, with lyrics by Jon Anderson, from their album called "Friends of Mr Cairo" (1981). Donna Summer's version (1982) is a cover, and I wish people knew that, because yes, this amazing sparkling anthem is as much Vangelis as Blade Runner was.

[@dillongstaff5625]

Moodswings also recorded State Of Independence,guest vocals by Chrissie Hinde.

[@jhavw9601]

...and the producer of the Donna Summer cover of "State of Independence" was Quincy Jones. Maybe it was an editing mistake as it seems Eno is talking about "I feel love" a bit later, which was co-written and co-produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Belotte. Anyway, it made me re-listen to State of Independence" with different ears. The change from heavy on synthesizer first half to the second half almost all analog instruments is something I had never noticed before, as I never listened to this song much. However, the change is done masterfully.

[@bcj842]

They say "don't meet your heroes" but I watch these interviews and it makes me want so much to just walk in the woods with the guy. I mean, sure, I don't see eye to eye with him on everything just like anybody else, but Eno seems extremely grounded and relatable. He's very thoughtful. Highly intelligent and opinionated without ever being douchey. A good role model in that way.

[@herakleitus]

To me "Thursday Afternoon" is the pinnacle of his "landscape/sonic environment" idea. What a hypnotic, 360 degree work of genius.

[@dovic86]

with regards to music, Brian Eno is a Renaissance man. you can tell by how articulate he is that he has a deep understanding of every aspect of it and this knowledge encompasses technology, composing, production, history and culture. I also believe that this degree of knowledge comes from expanding his curiosity beyond the limits of his art of choice. his artistic itinerary and the amount of experience he has gained along the way are absolutely impressive.

[@jeremybaker5452]

This Documentary got me obsessed with Brian Eno. Brilliant, Brilliant man

[@stephenlacysullivan2463]

This man is a genius. Im so blessed to live on this earth 🌎 with this guy.

[@shawnweaver7797]

Eno has given so much to the person listening, you almost feel the creation of his art. His work with Harold Budd has always brought me to a place i want to be.

[@ikkenhisatsu7170]

Another Green World was my first Eno record, back in maybe '72. I fell in love with his music and his mind. One of the very few musical geniuses, in my opinion. I still listen to him, mostly his early stuff, but some newer, even today.

[@bartlettohio]

I had the great pleasure of seeing Roxy with Eno in 1973...opening for Jethro Tull...they wore the same outfits as in that great German video ...you would not believe how tight they were...the audience did not appreciate them however...absolutely no applause....total silence at the end....

[@ladyblackstardust390]

+james mcbride -- I wondered how that came down. How fortunate for you. And here we are, still loving Eno!

[@bartlettohio]

One major problem was the sound...Roxy was forced to use their own P.A. system...speaker stacks on stage, while Jethro Tull had a new P.A. system with BOSE speakers suspended from the rafters of The Convocation Center in Athens Ohio, surround sound for them only! Eno has had the last laugh, though, hasn't he !!! Eno for MVP!!!!

[@adderon]

They weren't ready. Most still aren't...

[@marksellers9747]

I saw them on that tour in Athens, Ohio, and they were great. Enough really stood out, but the audience didn't appreciate them at all.

[@crabb9966]

It's inexpressible really. But to me, no musician is like Brian Eno. I could like musicians periodically but my perpetual love for Brian Eno haven't ceased since I first got to know his music

[@racefaceec90]

what a genuinely modest and humble man. but a fantastic musician. would love to have a cold orange squash and sit down and chat with brian eno.

[@BernardColdwell]

My first Eno album was purchased at a market in Bridgend I can recall it contained the Four Water Colours within the album cover. Chuffed to bits I played the record almost daily and wanted to know more of who played, who wrote or who else got the record to what it was on release. Subsequently I ended up buying even more Eno, more German records and took an interest in productions such as those done by Eno. Much enjoyed his output and collaborations. Its good to see here the Theme Music for Arena. Great album too; Another Green World

[@nickycotton6137]

Whe-Hey 'Bridgend' eh.✌. Pretty much similar story here. (Bagged from HMV in Cardiff though). Opened up a whole new world of magnificent Music.❤. What a genius.

[@cenyddros5604]

"Did you get more girls?" "Yeah."

[@ffvffv5709]

Louie,Louie must be a primoridal song of the universe that can still be heard thru that particular keyboard patch.

[@deejaydubla]

I love Brian Eno's cat.

[@MDCB1]

Gratitude

[@fazbell]

Eno just continues to surprise me. An innovator.

[@lodenger]

Thanks for sharing this. Eno is an exceptional human being. The world would be much better with more people like him.

[@edmolash3401]

Fantastic. I could listen to Eno and Dawkins chat all day long.

[@MrMotoflou]

ENO FANS- Have you guys kept up with his career, or are most fans just into the Ambient series? Because I have to say, I got into him recently, and I love every single thing that I've heard so far. I can't read or write without listening to his music now. Some days Apollo or Ambient 2, but then the next day I might turn on Lux. Different things for different moods, but it all works.

[@ladyblackstardust390]

+MrMotoflou Since '75. Baby's On Fire will be my funeral song. On Here Comes the Warm Jets.

[@ioannav.8125]

"St. Elmo's Fire" is perhaps the ultimate song of my existence.

[@johanna-hypatiacybeleia2465]

Another Green World is the album made in Heaven.

[@chriszanf]

I was aware of Roxy Music as a kid and his work used as the Arena theme. My best mate introduced me to 'Apollo Soundtracks' back in 1990. He later killed himself and so listening to that album always reminds me of him. Over the last few years, Ive been buying new albums that come out, and also doing a retrospective into his older stuff, and getting blown away by how he has already expressed and recorded music that seems to hit the spot of where Im investigating. Maybe its my mind opening more as time goes on and each time the curtain is pulled back, its just Brian sitting there already politely saying "Hello.... so youve finally got here?"

[@EastmanD]

Ok right before the 3 minute mark... that's State of Independence, right ?...which was off of the solo album from Jon Anderson (Yes) with Vangelis...right?..is that the same one ?

[@seansweeney3532]

How lovely! I repair organs here in the states... pipe, pump, electronic, and digital... the idea of being in a vast pipe organ sounds amazing. In medieval days, with no electricity or motors, they would pressurize the bellows by having two men climbing up two stories of stairs, and standing on one of two large pistons, slowly riding them down to the ground floor as the wind was used up, then back up the stairs for another trip down. They had to use more portly men, in order to play pieces with Forteissimo sections. Lol

[@dbsound882]

This album was the album no doubt and it was always one you could listen too and really make the music yours...growing up wow such a green world.

[@gidgetmaurer123]

Top 5 all time greatest albums for me

[@Carlos-im3hn]

Good stuff and Eno. Thank you.

[@ladyblackstardust390]

This is reminding me of my birthday present in February '88 I believe. Brian Eno had an art show at the 1915 Palace of Fine Arts. Different Ambient music intersecting to generate new music. In among the beautiful high and huge columns of the Beaux Art style. "On his last visit to San Francisco, in 1988, Eno erected a fascinating soundscape called "Latest Flames" in the bowels of the Palace of Fine Arts, where a series of tape recordings, starting at different times, intersected randomly to create accidental music. His latest project extends that groundbreaking work into a computer program available on Koan software, "Generative Music." He was commissioned by Microsoft to design the little arpeggio that sounds when Windows 95 is booted up, and he has also recently published his 1995 diary, "A Year With Swollen Appendices." Eno will appear Saturday at the Imagination Conference (along with film director Spike Lee, performance artist Laurie Anderson and others) at San Francisco's Civic Auditorium.: SF Gate 6/2/96

[@needtashow]

It's so cool - his appreciation of State of Independence. I've binged out on that song semi-regularly since it came out. I always picture Peggy Lipton singing background. I think I saw a documentary back then that showed her singing. I'm an Eno fan since Roxy forward. It happens to be his birthday today. happy bday BE, thank you.

[@leandrostang4409]

“Music is inner life, and whoever has inner life will never suffer from loneliness!” Arthur da Távola

[@dillongstaff5625]

I saw Brian Eno in 1976 as a member of 801 at my first (of 42!) Reading Festivals in the pouring rain.One lady near me kept screaming "Eno!" every few minutes,so a live album recorded at Reading was probably nixed... a later gig was issued as 801 live....Did you spot him in the final episode of Father Ted ? I love the tale of No Pussyfooting being played,on a reel to reel tape,on the John Peel BBC Radio 1 show played accidentally played in reverse on the radio,Brian Eno Eno phoned up the BBC to point this error out...and when that album was reissued in the CD era,bonus tracks were added...the whole album in reverse! Incenduary!

[@jmsjms296]

Thanks for making my day complete.

[@theone456]

What gets me is how Brian elaborately explains how Roxy Music Songs came about and were structured and all the interview can ask was " Was Brian Ferry irked you got more girls then him?" ...I hoped Eno demanded a new interviewer after that one.

[@Sirhumblr]

Such an amazing and interesting person, love his ambient albums

[@twelveouncetrance4034]

AGW and Before and After Science definitely in my top 10 albums!!!

[@firstgreenspace]

I believe in myself, and know that my contributions to life on earth will be appreciated in time (like probably 200 years or more from now) but this beautiful man, genius, creator and shaper of thoughts art and music will be remembered for time eternal. Brian Eno, you have surely heard this from others, "you are my muse", but I don't see it like that. I see it more as "you are my contemporary only split by a decade or two, and I am grateful for the words you share in these interview" I am @dragonflytommy on facebook and I am greenspaceone on Pandora.

[@frankjamesbonarrigo7162]

My Dad singing at 25:20. I love my Dad

[@xxandrewwilsonxxable]

The older i get I love the music of silence.

[@edsonsantiago9135]

Nice video. Just a small correction: Donna Summer’s State Of Independency was produced by Quincy Jones, not Giorgio Moroder.

[@ladyblackstardust390]

I was just remembering how much I enjoyed being in the school and church choirs. I played piano. For the last 35 years I've enjoyed Sanskrit chanting. I play harmonium. Oh, ah ah. He collected fossils. I was a geologist. I love Eno. "It's beyond thinking. Transcendent." I wonder if Eno got into meditation. He'd be a natural.

[@AndrewWeisMusic]

I love how his studio looks more like an art studio than a music studio. I don't even see any acoustic padding on the walls.

[@adderon]

Check out his diagrams and drawings from art school in the 60's

[@nickycotton6137]

LOL/Fair-Shout...👍

[@ronaldpetrin5823]

A dominant factorial of commonality by an artist in my former music collection lost in 2022, was ENO, his releases, his influence. Now its You Tube. Im a fossil collector too.

[@nilsbrown7996]

Makes total sense that he’s from Suffolk. And he would have grown up with the circus of composer Benjamin Britten and the Aldeburgh Festival going on as a dull roar going on in the background every summer. Amazing thing that he made his own path really.

[@christopherbrown-q8r]

HIS MUSIC IS ETHEREALLY TIMELESS

[@frankjamesbonarrigo7162]

that's my Dad singing at 25:00

[@mimihasan7818]

so good omg

[@ECLECTOb]

What is the name of the song ??

[@frankjamesbonarrigo7162]

Life's too short. Lafayettes

[@frankjamesbonarrigo7162]

Produced by Hugo and Luigi. Notice the similarity in sound to lion sleeps tonight

[@iainherridge6253]

Around 1980 I bought from the tape discount bin Brian Eno's Another Green World & Before and after Science, luved them but was a Roxy music fan!

[@firstgreenspace]

"you know I hate remembering" How deeply I share that. I'm not afraid of it, just, sometimes hurts a little but not in a way or because of any certain things. Nebulous, is perhaps the best word I can think of.

[@JimBCameron]

Just watched this on BBC4, great stuff! :D

[@PeaceBisquit]

Fantastic fantastic documentary and interview. Eno is the best of the best! *However note that Donna Summer's "State of Independence" was Produced by Quincy Jones (not Giorgio Moroder) in 1982 on her self titled album. Her first without the genius of the classic Moroder / Pete Bellotte

[@ronaldpetrin5823]

Some may say my alpha wave music, beam me up, the power of ENO. Such a past indeed. Setting the new course in music and defining "Ambient Music" itself. Time use, its manipulation using loops, randomness in a miraculous way, setting mind scapes with sounds heard ubiquitously on any given day. Setting moods that strattle different realities simultaneously. Striking panache and cutting edge style the entire way from Glam with Brian Ferry to the smooth landing in Airports, then beyond, latest captures sets you into cruise with ENO at the controls.

[@feliperaurichbottiger6637]

buenísimo documento !!

[@seansweeney3532]

I think its interesting that Eno used a technique used in making soundtracks, to create early loop based creations with Talking Heads... by employing time coded tape loops, he was able to sync the various sounds, but additionally, he employed random bits of what we would almost call digital hash, or ambient pink noise, that weren't synched up, to just provide atmosphere. All of the songs from remain in light have this ambient bed of randomness underpinned... The most unique thing about it is that it was very difficult to do back then. In the late seventies, what is actually very easy to do now in the present day. Extremely easy now, extremely difficult back then.

[@jedgould5531]

His belief about surrender is inspiring.

[@Goatchild90]

Actual musical genius alert.

[@mario7frankielee]

wonderful docu! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🪱

[@Claudestar1]

Wonderful documentary! Brian Eno is a Genius!

[@33madspirals]

Apple Logic Pro, he's using an older version maybe version 8 or 9 (when the documentary was made probably), curent version is 10 www.apple.com/logic-pro/

[@timjones8837]

Brilliant!

[@edwardbliss8931]

We desperately need another music revolution to shake things up. There hasn't been any rebellion or uprising towards mainstream music since grunge 30 years ago. People are too glued to their smartphones to care about a revolution

[@Sharperthanu1]

That's where I've seen that guy before :That's Malcom Gladwell.He wrote "Blink." A book about intuition.

[@osju64]

Thanks! Fascinating.

[@bingbongtoysKY]

I love the hanging jamboxes- taking the gravity away ! music without feet- what a blast-❤

[@rachelfukumoto4789]

0:01 Here Come the Warm Jets8:30 1-2 (Music for Airports) 10:20 1-1 (Music for Airports) 13:55 2-2 (Music for Airports) 46:02 Talking Heads - Heaven 47:38 An Ending (Ascent) 56:45 Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy

[@arthurachoi]

Rachel Fukumoto Could you also identify the music from 5:26 ~ 7:03 please? Much appreciated.

[@quazatronic]

Yeah pretty cool track and you can listen to it at 35 minute too.... but I was wondering if someone knew it in the comments...

[@realMojo]

Wow! Thanks for sharing this. A real eye opener to his idea of creation and process therein. Mind is eating this up....

[@hughtuck5147]

A thread running though western popular music, from the '70s, to date - and, it has to be said, looking so Good, post shaved head.

[@croiners4166]

Best Eno documentary I’ve seen

[@gainsbarre13]

Great documentary, but that Donna Summer track is actually produced by Quincy Jones. Brian!

[@christopherpesqueira8169]

Genius at work!

[@AngryTaurus007]

Thanks!

[@jimbobjason9876]

Quincy Jones produced Donna Summer‘s „State Of Independence“ (not Giorgio Moroder).

[@simonpannett8810]

The effect of different frequencies on human health and mind state is a fascinating area! Sound baths that hit frequencies to calm down and be aware of other parts of the life experience that can pass us by when we are very busy?? Opposite to youth excitement?/ Can we live without hope> I think we are entering a period to find out? Will Brian like AI music??

[@bnmcmhn]

I love this man

[@bingbongtoysKY]

fantastic ❤

[@johnyaya9225]

Spending a day looking for fossils sounds like a great day to me!

[@ronlent3]

thanks! will check it out.

[@enoboye]

I love it. Such a great compilation. But why in the world is the focus so off?? So often the camera focus is on backgrounds, not on the people speaking, and it continues on and on and on. It's annoying! Brilliant piece, though. I love this man. God Bless Eno!!

[@youbian]

I feel like Eno should just be hanging around MIT somewhere indefinitely. Just put him in the janitors loft and keep him on campus.

[@rockrecordreport7136]

He's way beyond academia - that sounds awful.

[@ivankaramasov]

I am not sure whether Eno is a genius, but he is certainly a very playful spirit and brilliantly intelligent. Smartest man in pop music together with David Bowie

[@bcj842]

Zappa was very smart, witty, and playful too but he was also very rigid. Much more of a Mr. Darling personality than a Peter Pan.

[@firstgreenspace]

Oh my God! I know now that I am not alone on this planet!

[@marcuswalters8093]

World class trolling from Arena not to use the usual opening theme. 'Another Green World' by Brian Eno.

[@andyledger2307]

No - they used it at the end instead.

[@StuHutch]

Oh sick, James!

[@ryanbrownnew]

No archaeological record to show humans gradually evolved from slime. As usual Dawkins is talking out of his arse.

[@BellaRainDrops]

Class act.

[@firstgreenspace]

There in within you, a contradiction internalized, and it is that thing which I believe provides the motivation to pursue perfection in your own work, while rejecting perfection, like when you have two magnets and when you try to push the same poles together they refuse, but when you align the opposites, they become bonded with great force.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Nyone know what the piece of music is at around 13 mins. Sounds like a Joe Meek production. Thanks for posting this. A

[@earcandleproductions]

I love your work/ I also love my husband's work.

[@michaelisaacson9735]

Wonderful video. That Eno is a cat guy only makes it better.

[@FlagsbyChris]

Wow!!! Thanks for this post!

[@miketomlin6040]

A 'non musician' who made some of the best music of the 20th century!

[@imarco75]

I love him, one of the most important figures in culture and thankfully nobody else like him. However, even he would know that Donna Summer's cover of 'State of Independence' was produced by Quincy Jones and not Giorgio Moroder lol

[@SongOfItself]

...or that the song was written by Vangelis, with lyrics by Jon Anderson, and appeared on their album "Friends of Mr Cairo", while Donna Summer's version is a cover (and is a distant shade of the original, too)

[@jwdewdney6757]

love the awkward meeting between eno and dawkins (dawkins is thinking who the F is this guy??) :D

[@thomasbarchen]

I don't really know much about Brian Eno other than some videos I have watched lately on KZbin of him. What I do know is that the guy is terribly likeable and I want to explore the things he's done.

[@herakleitus]

Is that Malcolm Gladwell?

[@livemusicnyc6357]

pure genius

[@jameshoulahan]

This is awesome. Thanks for posting!

[@imDezrt]

18:05 I love his reaction to synplant hahahaha

[@CyPorter]

Thanks for this!

[@asolarasolarasolar]

Brian One ...