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Evening Star is the second studio album by British musicians Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. It was recorded from 1974 to 1975 and released in December 1975 by Island Records.

Evening Star
Studio album by Fripp & Eno
Released	December 1975
Recorded	1974–1975
Genre	Ambient
Length	47:43
Label	Island
Producer	Brian Eno & Robert Fripp
Fripp & Eno chronology
(No Pussyfooting) (1973) Evening Star (1975) The Equatorial Stars (2004)
Robert Fripp chronology
(No Pussyfooting) (1973) Evening Star (1975) Exposure (1979)
Brian Eno chronology
Another Green World (1975) Evening Star (1975) Discreet Music (1975)

Background and recording

This album's recording and the preceding seven-show European tour by Fripp and Eno marked Fripp's first output after disbanding King Crimson and his last before temporarily retiring from music (at the time thought to be permanently) to study at the International Academy for Continuous Education in Sherborne House.

Content

AllMusic described Evening Star as "a less harsh, more varied affair, closer to Eno's then-developing idea of ambient music than what had come before in (No Pussyfooting)".[1] The first three tracks are serene, gentle tape-looped guitar textures performed by Fripp and accented with treatments, synthesizer and piano by Eno. Track four, "Wind on Wind", is a short excerpt from Eno's solo project Discreet Music, released a week after Evening Star. It is not an exact duplication from that release, being mixed slightly differently. Eno had originally intended Fripp to use the material which became Discreet Music as a backing tape to play over in improvised live performances.

The second half of the album is a twenty-eight-minute piece of drone music titled "An Index of Metals", in which guitar notes are accumulated in a loop, with distortion increasing as the track progresses.

The album's cover is a painting by the artist Peter Schmidt.

Release

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[2]
Pitchfork	8.6/10[3]
Record Collector	[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	8/10[6]

Evening Star was released in December 1975 by Island Records.

Evening Star is the only Fripp album to be released during his retirement.

Legacy

Tracks from Evening Star were used as music in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary Phase. "Wind on Water" and "Wind on Wind" were included on the soundtrack to the 1983 film Breathless.

Track listing

All tracks written by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, except "Wind on Wind" by Eno.

Side A

1. "Wind on Water" – 5:30
2. "Evening Star" – 7:48
3. "Evensong" – 2:53
4. "Wind on Wind" – 2:56

Side B

1. "An Index of Metals" – 28:36

Personnel

• Robert Fripp – guitar
• Brian Eno – tape loops, synthesizer, piano
• Peter Schmidt – cover painting

References

Works cited

• Christgau, Robert (1981). "Fripp & Eno: Evening Star". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor and Fields. ISBN 0-89919-026-X. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
• Considine, J. D. (1992). "Robert Fripp". In DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly (eds.). The Rolling Stone Album Guide (3rd ed.). Random House. ISBN 0-679-73729-4.
• Powers, Ann (1995). "Brian Eno". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.

External links

• Evening Star at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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- [en] Evening Star (Fripp & Eno album)

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[es] Evening Star

Evening Star es un álbum de Brian Eno y Robert Fripp publicado en 1975. Se trata de la segunda colaboración entre ambos, grabada tras su gira conjunta, donde repiten el sistema utilizado en su anterior trabajo: (No Pussyfooting). Sin embargo en esta nueva obra se introducen más variaciones instrumentales y compositivas.

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