The aptly titled "Wind on water" features warm background textures which are joined by glittering layers of treated guitar/synths, creating a baffling yet thoroughly compelling 'electronic listening' piece. Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2011. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Please try again. It combines two tracks from each of their released albums-- "(No Pussyfooting)" and "Evening Star" with four unreleased tracks from a later session. Eno Box II: Vocal. "The Heavenly Music Corporation" and "Swastika Girls," totaling 39 minutes, make up the whole of No Pussyfooting. "The Heavenly Music Corporation" and "Swastika Girls," totaling 39 minutes, make up … To my ears, it almost seems like self-parody. I tend to agree with one of the prior reviewers who said that this album should be taken as an alternative to 1973's "No pussyfooting"; I think that "The essential" better should be labelled as "No pussyfooting (Remastered) + 6 bonus tracks". If you have already listened to albums of '90s ambient artists like Main and Seefeel and to Fripp's/Eno's more recent work, you know what I mean. Discover. "Healthy colors" may have been palatable if Eno/Fripp had supported this piece with a melody or a hook every now and then, but it's so discordant and unmemorable that it must be considered as self-indulgent garbage. Label: Venture - CDVE920,Virgin - 7243 8 39045 2 5 • Format: CD Compilation • Country: Europe • Genre: Electronic • Style: Minimal, Ambient, Experimental Label: Caroline Records - CAROL 1886-2,Caroline Records - 7243 8 39045 2 5 • Format: CD Compilation • Country: US • Genre: Electronic, Rock • Style: Avantgarde, Experimental, Ambient Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. They also point at future projects: Eno's collaboration with David Byrne on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and King Crimson's reunion album, Discipline, thereby making them compelling listens, while the earlier material is still essential listening decades after its initial release. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1994 Cassette release of The Essential Fripp And Eno on Discogs. This compilation of the recorded collaborations between guitarist Robert Fripp and producer/conceptualist/musician Brian Eno is taken from two album-length recordings made for the Island subsidiary Antilles in 1974 and 1975, No Pussyfooting and Evening Star, with an unreleased 1979 session added on. The scene is carefully built up by Fripp's guitar sounds - rhythm guitar on the left stereo channel, three-note picking on the right one, and various feedback whines/drones between the two channels - before Eno adds some atmospheric synths and romantic piano lines. Unable to add item to List. Complete your Robert Fripp / Brian Eno* collection. "The essential" is not an adequate anthology of the duo's mid-'70s collaborations, but it does manage to gather some of the better pieces of their output.