I just listened to the digital version of the record. I guess you're all mistaking something here: the surface noise is there in every format and every release, or so it seems to me, and I think that's because of the way the music was recorded: the process of recording the guitar sound in the Revox and playing it back at the same time to the other Revox in order to get layering and feedback is /5(51). Brian Eno is credited with the claim that everyone who originally bought a Velvet Underground album subsequently formed a band. It s no less valid to suggest that many of those involved in electronic music might not have been but for No Pussyfooting and Evening Star. The first three tracks are serene, gentle tape-looped guitar textures performed by Robert Fripp and accented with treatments, synthesizer and piano by Brian Eno. Track four, "Wind on Wind", is a short excerpt from Eno’s solo project Discreet Music, released at roughly the same time as Evening Star. (It is not an exact duplication from that Genre: Ambient, drone.