The Yoga Wellbeing team feel that music is an important element to setting the right atmosphere for a yoga session. So many people who 
practice yoga daily have asked me about what type of music I listen to. Mr Brian Eno is one of our favourites at the moment.
Eno is an English musician, composer, record produce who is best known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.
He studied at art school, taking inspiration from minimalist painting, but he had little musical education or playing experience when he joined the band Roxy Music as their keyboards and synthesisers player in the 1970s. Roxy Music’s success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno decided to leave the group beginning his solo career.
He started to extend his reach into more experimental musical styles with pioneering ambient efforts at “sonic landscapes” began to consume more of his time beginning with Ambient 1/Music for Airports (1978) and later Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (1983) which was composed for the documentary film For All Mankind.
His solo work has been extremely influential, pioneering ambient and generative music, innovating production techniques, and emphasizing “theory over practice.” He also introduced the concept of chance music to popular audiences partly through collaborations with other musicians. By the end of the 1970s, Eno had worked with David Bowie on the avant-garde “Berlin Trilogy,” helped popularise and the punk-influenced “No Wave” genre. More recently he has worked with David Byrne, and produced three albums by Talking Heads, seven albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree (1987), and worked on records by James, Laurie Anderson, Coldplay, Paul Simon, and Slowdive, among others.
As an artist, Brian Eno pursues ventures in aside from his music career: art installations, a newspaper column in The Observer, and “Oblique Strategies”, a deck of cards where each card has a cryptic remark or random insight meant to resolve a dilemma. He continues to collaborate with other musicians, produce records, release his own music, and write. A true talent, you wonder how he finds time to fit it all in.
