Brian Eno is MORE DARK THAN SHARK

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Mojo JUNE 2024 - by David Sheppard

BRIAN ENO: ENO OST

Eclectic soundtrack to Gary Hustwit's career-spanning film portrait of the enduring ambient potentate.

Eno the movie promises to go beyond documentary stereotype, generative technologies ensuring no two screenings will be alike. The accompanying soundtrack is perhaps less ground-breaking, its seventeen tracks cherry-picked from Eno's five post-Roxy Music decades, although it opens with an anomaly - the previously unreleased All I Remember finding habitually future-facing Brian looking yearningly backwards, recalling scenes from his youth ("flickers in windows and 40-watt bulbs and TVs") - and ends in a dream, a heat-hazed By This River, captured in August 2021 at a stifling Athens Acropolis. In between, rings of Eno benchmarks like Third Uncle and Sky Saw are complemented by deep cuts such as the elegantly buoyant Motion In Field, a collaboration with pianist Tom Rogerson, while the clattering Lighthouse #429, plucked from Eno's capacious Sonos Radio outtake dump, is surely the epitome of his self-styled "jazz that nobody asked for".