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This page stays live because some Search Engines still link to it. But the information that follows is out of date, particularly the ordering information. You are respectfully requested to visit Enoshop where you can buy all these items and more with your credit card.

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In 1997 Brian Eno started creating the audio CD equivalent of printed catalogues to accompany his sound and light installations. They were envisaged as a way of providing a souvenir of each installation for people who had attended them.

It was then decided to make these catalogue CDs available to a wider audience, not just those people who were lucky enough to visit. You don't get the full installation experience, but most people agree that the albums are enjoyable in their own right.

Opal has kindly given EnoWeb permission to feature a short audio excerpt from each CD. The RealAudio files are .rm format, which means they won't stream in real time: the whole file downloads to your computer and is then played by the RealPlayer. MP3s will play in any standard player like Winamp, MusicMatch, a Mac player or Windows Media Player.

How to order

These five CDs are exclusively available by mail order from Opal Ltd. If you would like to buy any of them, just send your address with a cheque or check for the appropriate amount:

UK Orders: £15 (fifteen pounds sterling) each

Orders within Europe: £16 (sixteen pounds sterling) each or US$26 (twenty-six US dollars) each

Orders from the USA and other countries outside Europe: £17.50 (seventeen pounds and fifty pence sterling) each or US$28 (twenty-eight US dollars) each

Please make your cheque or check payable to Opal Ltd and send it to this new address: Brian Eno CD Offer, PO Box 31500, London W11 3FB, Great Britain. The price includes postage and packing. Please allow 28 days for delivery. Alternatively, you can now pay by Postal Order provided it is in UK pounds sterling or US dollars. Please note: Opal regrets that it cannot accept credit card payments or International Money Orders.

EnoWeb has some handy order forms which you can print out and fill in if you wish.

• For I Dormienti
• For Kite Stories
• For Civic Recovery Centre
• For Lightness
• For Compact Forest Proposal
• For two, three, four or five different CDs

Frequently Asked Questions -- answered by EnoWeb

Do you accept credit cards?
It's not EnoWeb offering these CDs, it's Opal. Opal does not accept credit cards. As stated above, it's a Cheque or Check or Postal Order payment in one of two currencies.

But they aren't my national currency.
Your bank should be able to make out a cheque in pounds sterling or US dollars, wherever you live. They may charge a fee for this service.

Why doesn't Opal accept credit cards?
EnoWeb is not sure, but assumes that the costs of setting up a Merchant Account to handle credit cards would be prohibitive, and not a justifiable expense for a company whose main business is licensing and publishing Brian's work. It's something of an anomaly that Opal agreed to sell these installation CDs direct in the first place. If you absolutely have to buy by credit card, we have seen the CDs for sale at Rough Trade.

Can I buy them using an International Money Order?
No, as I said before, it's a cheque or check or postal order and nothing else, all right?

Is Brian Eno going to be selling all his music direct from now on?
No, later albums such as Drawn From Life are on standard labels and sold through record stores, same as usual.

Are these CDs Limited Editions?
No, there is no limit to the number that can be produced. So when you see people on eBay describing them as RARE! and LIMITED EDITION!!!! and Scarce!!!!!! and so on and so forth, they are either misguided or lying through their teeth. Or both, of course.

Aren't these CDs rather expensive?
CDs generally cost more in the UK than in the USA. Opal is a British company. In fact, the price of these CDs is lower than the average UK shop price for a CD. But as you have free will, you know that you don't have to acquire them if you don't want them.

I hate Brian Eno! He makes it so difficult for me to buy his records with a check by mail order and when I get them I don't want to play them, they're not as good as his earlier stuff. I've played it once. It's **** etc etc
EnoWeb says: If you don't want these CDs, don't buy them. Nobody is forcing you to add them to your collection of CDs that you don't listen to. Sell them on eBay if you want to recoup your investment, just don't describe them as ULTRA-RARE or anything similar.

Why are you so cruel to me? I'm traumatized by your invective.
Next question! Oh, I see there are none. Everybody's gone quiet. Roll the end credits.