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Roger Eno
Night Garden
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Jazz, Special Interest, New Age, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. Lengthening Shadows
2. Threndian Song Of Parting
3. Later That Night
4. Where The Rock Fish Feed
5. Perditia
6. Nocturnal Creatures
7. The Nightgarden
8. In The Distance
9. From Another Angle
10. Now, Where Were We?
11. Just A Touch
12. Lost And Found
13. Over The River

CD Details

All Artists: Roger Eno
Title: Night Garden
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: La Cooka Ratcha UK
Original Release Date: 1/1/1995
Re-Release Date: 6/6/2000
Album Type: Import
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Jazz, Special Interest, New Age, Pop, Rock
Styles: Ambient, Electronica, Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Experimental Music, Meditation, Progressive, Progressive Rock, Electronic
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 604388204625

Synopsis

Amazon.com

Roger Eno has always played the melodist to elder brother Brian Eno's atmospherics. Where Brian Eno traffics in intellectual concepts and ambient, diffuse landscapes such as Music for Airports, Roger Eno crafts emotional, melodically rich chamber works heard on albums such as Voices and the underrated gem, Lost in Translation. The Night Garden, however, finds Roger harvesting a sound that's closer to his brother's ambient works than anything he's previously recorded. Originally conceived as backing tracks for a discarded project, these are sparse, open-ended works, full of droning organ pedal tone textures and themes that threaten to become melodies but never quite resolve. Some of the sounds--such as cheap Casio VL-Tone synthesizers with quavering violins and whiny organs--are surprisingly cheesy, but they have a certain charm in this context, like some lost techno-folk music from an alien civilization. --John Diliberto

CD Reviews

The other Eno's Ambient turn

Phasedin | New Jersey | 04/22/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I can't believe that this one is out of print already-only a few years after it's initial release. England's Voiceprint record label originally released this (as well as many interesting recordings from various musicians on the experimental edge of progressive rock), and I just have to hope that this rather small label isn't in the process of winding down.

Anyway on to this recording. Brian's brother is better known for his slow beautiful chamber music like classical outings-not real different from Harold Budd's explorations in this area. Roger normally uses primarily acoustic instruments played by his various groupings of musicians on his recordings. But here he waltzes into brother Brian's ambient electronic territory.

Roger plays all the music here on electronic keyboards-no guests at all.

For me personally these intimate truly solo outings are always my favorites.

Naturally with a title like "Night Garden" you get the premise and feel for what Eno is trying to convey in the music without having to think very hard about what the composers intentions are.

Well Roger suceedes very well on this account. Matter of fact it's much more sucessful a recording than what brother Brian Eno has been able to do on his own ambient recordings since at least "On Land", which is quite awhile ago now.

I would recommend getting this before something like Brian Eno's own ambient recordings like "Thursday Afternoon" or "Neroli", which kind of fall flat when compared to Brian's earlier ambient recordings like the classic "Discreet Music", "Music For Airports", and especially the 2 wonderful recordings Brian did with Harold Budd "The Plateux Of Mirror" or "The Pearl"."