ENO, BRIAN / HOPKINS, JON - SMALL CRAFT ON A MILK SEA

Brian Peter George Eno (born 15 May 1948) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, sound designer, author, and political activist. He is known for his contributions to ambient music and electronica, as well as for his work in rock and pop music as a producer, composer, and collaborator. Eno has described himself as a "non-musician", reflecting his emphasis on conceptual and experimental approaches to music-making. He has been regarded as an influential figure in popular music. In 2019, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the band "Roxy Music". Eno was born in Suffolk and studied painting and experimental music at Ipswich Civic College in the mid-1960s before continuing his education at Winchester School of Art. In 1971, he joined the glam rock group "Roxy Music" as a synthesiser player, contributing to two albums before leaving the band in 1973. He subsequently began a solo career with the release of the rock-oriented album "Here Come the Warm Jets" (1974). He later explored minimalist and ambient approaches on recordings such as "Discreet Music" (1975) and "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" (1978), the latter of which introduced the term "ambient music". During the 1970s, Eno collaborated with a range of artists, including Robert Wyatt, Robert Fripp, Harmonia, Cluster, Harold Budd, David Bowie, John Cale, and David Byrne. He also became an established record producer, working on projects by Jon Hassell, Laraaji, "Talking Heads", Ultravox, and Devo, as well as producing the compilation album "No New York" (1978). In later decades, he continued to release solo material and produce recordings for artists such as "U2", "Coldplay", Peter Gabriel, Daniel Lanois, Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones, Slowdive, Karl Hyde of "Underworld", James, Kevin Shields, and Damon Albarn. In addition to his musical work, Eno has been active in other artistic fields since his student years, including sound installations, film, and writing. In the mid-1970s, he co-developed "Oblique Strategies", a set of cards designed to encourage creative thinking through prompts and aphorisms. His installation work has included projects involving the sails of the Sydney Opera House in 2009 and the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in 2016. Eno has also been involved in political and humanitarian causes. He has written on a variety of topics and is a founding member of the Long Now Foundation. His activism has included advocacy related to environmental issues, opposition to Brexit and the Conservative Party, and support for Julian Assange. He has also expressed views on the situation in the Gaza Strip and participated in initiatives such as signing a 2025 pledge by Film Workers for Palestine regarding collaboration with certain Israeli film institutions. Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno Studio albums Here Come the Warm Jets (1974) Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974) Another Green World (1975) Discreet Music (1975) Before and After Science (1977) Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978) Music for Films (1978) Ambient 4: On Land (1982) Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (1983) Thursday Afternoon (1985) Nerve Net (1992) The Shutov Assembly (1992) Neroli (1993) Headcandy (1994) The Drop (1997) Another Day on Earth (2005) Lux (2012) The Ship (2016) Reflection (2017) ForeverAndEverNoMore (2022) Aurum (2025) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Jonathan Julian "Jon" Hopkins (born 15 August 1979) is an English producer and musician who writes and performs electronic music. He began his career playing keyboard for Imogen Heap, and has produced or contributed to albums by Brian Eno, Coldplay, David Holmes and others. Hopkins composed the soundtrack for the 2010 film Monsters, which was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Score. His third solo album, Insides, reached no. 15 on the Dance/Electronic Album Chart in 2009. His collaborations on Small Craft on a Milk Sea with Brian Eno and Leo Abrahams and Diamond Mine with King Creosote both reached no. 82 on the UK Albums Chart. In 2011 Diamond Mine was nominated for a Mercury Prize, which is annually awarded for best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. Immunity was also nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize. Jon Hopkins was born in 1979 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and grew up in nearby Wimbledon. He first became aware of electronic music after hearing early house music on the radio at the age of seven or eight, and also became a fan of Depeche Mode and the Pet Shop Boys. These records inspired an early fascination with synths. At the age of 12 Hopkins began studying piano at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music in London, where he continued until age 17. The composers that were greatly influential to him whilst studying were Ravel and Stravinsky, and he eventually won a competition to perform a concert of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G with an orchestra. For a time Hopkins considered becoming a professional pianist, only to decide classical performance was too formal and unnerving to pursue full-time. As a teenager he also listened to acid house, early hardcore, grunge, as well as electronica artists such as Acen, Seefeel, and Plaid. When Hopkins was 14 he got his first computer, an Amiga 500, and started programming MIDI material. By the age of 15 he had saved up enough money from winning piano competitions to buy a low-level professional Roland synth, and on this he began creating his first full-length electronic compositions. On March 6, 2018, Hopkins announced that his 5th studio album "Singularity" would be released on May 4, 2018 via Domino Recordings. Speaking about the album, Hopkins told Exclaim!, "Now that Singularity is done, I can look back on it, and it's almost like some sort of living thing that's purifying itself over the course of that hour. By the time it gets to the end, it's in the exact opposite place, and yet it ends with the same sound — the infinite simplicity of that one note. I like that idea." Hopkins has performed at music festivals such as Moogfest, Mutek, Beacons Festival, and Electric Zoo, and at venues such as Madison Square Garden and the London O2 Arena.[19] As of 2014 he maintains a regular touring schedule both in England and internationally, playing at the Glastonbury Festival in June, with upcoming dates at the Pitchfork Music Festival, Electric Picnic and Time Music Festival and in 2015 at Wonderfruit in Thailand for the premiere of the iy_project, a collaboration with light artist, Chris Levine. According to reviews, "Hopkins's aesthetic is perpetually intriguing. He transcends genres, melding digital coldness with subtle, bucolic textures; veering from skewed elegance to strange, unsettling depths. He makes powerfully emotive, instrumental music that consistently crosses genres, ranging from solo acoustic piano to explosive, bass-heavy electro." Also, he "meticulously constructs lush, downtempo arrangements, blending digital beats and soothing ambience." Hopkins practices autogenic training and Transcendental Meditation, of which he says, "For me, it's not about relaxing. It can get music flowing in a way that's really uninhibited, and I want to spend as much time in that place as possible." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.