The Equatorial Stars

On this CD: 1. The Equatorial Stars
Composed by Brian Eno, Robert Fripp

Editorial Reviews
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So much truly boring ambient music has been made since Brian Eno coined the phrase in the mid 1970s that it's sometimes hard to remember this can truly be a vibrant music that's, you know, musical. And while there are some clicky and smeared sounds courtesy of Mr. Eno that can only result from modern computer software, this album is a return to 1975's lush, pastoral and excellent Evening Star. The duo pick up where they left off on this aptly titled collection of blessed-out drone exercises. Fans of modern ambient music, like the stuff that Kranky label releases, might wish that there was a little more "envelope pushing." However, if you view ambient music on the same level as any other genre (say, bluegrass) then this album is akin to hearing that genre's originators (say, Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley) jamming quietly on a back porch while the sun sets. And it's hard to find fault with that, or this here fine, deliberately unassuming work. --Mike McGonigal

The Equatorial Stars,Fripp & Eno,Inner Knot,Ambient,Electro-Acoustic,Electronic/Avant-Garde/Minimalist Music,Experimental,Experimental Ambient,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

Tracks:

Meissa
Lyra
Tarazed
Lupus
Ankaa
Altair
Terebellum

Amazon.com

So much truly boring ambient music has been made since Brian Eno coined the phrase in the mid 1970s that it's sometimes hard to remember this can truly be a vibrant music that's, you know, musical. And while there are some clicky and smeared sounds courtesy of Mr. Eno that can only result from modern computer software, this album is a return to 1975's lush, pastoral and excellent Evening Star. The duo pick up where they left off on this aptly titled collection of blessed-out drone exercises. Fans of modern ambient music, like the stuff that Kranky label releases, might wish that there was a little more "envelope pushing." However, if you view ambient music on the same level as any other genre (say, bluegrass) then this album is akin to hearing that genre's originators (say, Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley) jamming quietly on a back porch while the sun sets. And it's hard to find fault with that, or this here fine, deliberately unassuming work. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

Excellent ambient/drone.......2007-05-16

This is an excellent collaboration between Eno and Fripp. While not as revolutionary as No Pussyfooting, it is an excellent companion piece to Evening Star. The two even have a similar "theme".

It is very nice to see Fripp and Eno work together again, even for this one album.

If you are into this sort of ambient/drone music, I also suggest anything by Stars of the Lid- a more recent group who can pull off this music as good as Fripp and Eno.

Is this all they've got?.......2007-04-28

Man, is this boring. Even as background music, it's a snooze. Evidently they've both used up all the ideas they had, and had nothing better to do other than lay down some tracks in their sleep.

Aphelionic liquidity.......2007-03-02

A casual fluid innocuous colloboration. Eno holds a wonderful sublime baseline ambient space as Fripp weaves a brilliant synthesized nebular guitar. There's something mysterious in the slow rhythmic dance of the constellations in the night sky. You can feel a sence of enormous distances in these slow compositions. Track to track you feel the stellar wind carry you through hypnotic filaments of intergalactic space.

Back in form, and brilliantly. .......2006-07-31

Whoosh! It's been, wha...30 years since the wonderful two LP's "No Pussyfooting" and "Evening Star" by this pathbreaking duo of Fripp and Eno. Since then we have long hoped for more...more...from these two incredible genii of ambient-electronic music. Well, in 1994 Caroline released "The Essential Fripp And Eno" which had both LP's except for some reason they left out Side 2 of "Evening Star", "An Index Of Metals", but included 4 new tracks "Healthy Colours". Nice stuff, but not what we'd've expected. Anyhoo...here's a wonderful new selection of seven mid-size (5-9 minute) tracks of very atmospheric guitar-synthesizer, sampled synth, who-knows-what-studio-wizardry. Fripp proves to be still a very formidable guitarist, playing meltingly beautiful solos over Eno's very advanced and gorgeous electronic backings. Two tracks have notably catchy backbeats, but the others are mostly airy-ambient cloud-musics of beautiful depth and range. Let us hope that these two top-notch brilliant British musicians don't wait another 30 years to add another chapter to their output!

lord, brilliant.......2006-05-19

the most natural step they could make as a duo, this far in the future. you wonder, do eno and fripp hang out even when they're not creating a once in a billion year collaboration!? fripp. eno. eno. fripp. god bless em. no, i don't say god bless em. other reviewers say god bless em. way better than me.