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
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Jazz Music:
- The Soul of R & B Revue: Live at the Lonestar Roadhouse [Live]
- The Third Decade
- The Warm Cafe
- To A Lady
- Together Forever
- Victoriaville 1988 [Live]
- Vol. 6, 1928-1929
- Warm Woods
- When I Grow Too Old Dream [Import]
- Wishes You a Cookin Christmas
Jazz Music
Mozart: Divertimento K. 563/K. 424
Lassus/Palestrina: Motetti, Madrigali e Canzoni Francesi
Music: The Complete Wedding Album
Kiss Me, Kate (1999 Broadway Revival Cast) [Cast Recording]
Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie