Evening Star (album) - Definition and Overview

Evening Star (1975) is an album by the British ambient musicians Robert Fripp and Brian Eno under the group name Fripp & Eno. The first three tracks are serene, gentle tape-looped guitar textures performed by Robert Fripp and accented with treatments, synthesizer and piano by Brian Eno. Track four is a piece titled “Wind on Wind”, which is an excerpt from Eno’s solo project Discreet Music, which was released after this album. The second half of the album is a suspenseful twenty-eight minute piece titled “An Index of Metals”, in which guitar notes are accumulated in a loop, with distortion increasing as the track progresses.

Track listing

1. ”Wind on Water” - 5:30
2. ”Evening Star” - 7:48
3. ”Evensong” - 2:53
4. ”Wind on Wind” - 2:56
5. ”An Index of Metals” - 28:36