The first time Brian Eno was seen with Roxy Music bent over an early moog synthesizer busily turning it's controls the immediate reaction was "hello, and which planet has this one arrived from?".
But now looking at his 40+ years of creativity the man really did see the future and yes, became it.
Today if you go anywhere on the www which has got a link with music it's more than likely the Eno thumbprint has been left behind.
OK just look at a slice of his output..
After leaving Roxy Music, in 1972 he developed a tape delay system with Robert Fripp (King Crimson), described as 'Frippertronics'. Fripp still uses it.
He then embarks on a solo career almost immediately between 1973 and 1977 he created four albums of largely electronically inflected pop songs and virtually invents ambient music.
Late 70's works with David Bowie as a writer and musician on Bowie's influential 1977–79 'Berlin Trilogy' of albums, Low, "Heroes" and Lodger,
In The 80's produces pop records and gets involved with subculture new wave bands, and releasing more solo works.
In the 90's produces the six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, The Microsoft Sound.
In 1996, he collaborated in developing the SSEYO Koan generative music system that he used in composing the hybrid music album Generative Music 1:
Into the 2000's he develops a music transformation player for an iphone called Bubble.
On top of that producing videos for gallery display and collaborating with visual artists, and produces more hit pop records
And that lot is just a brief description.
Eno describes himself as a "non-musician". A little beyond that you might think, more like a living installation.
Here's the 1st track from the 1992 album "Nerve Net".
