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Music : Music for Airports: Ambient 1
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Music for Airports: Ambient 1 by: Brian Eno List Price: £15.99 CD-Charts Price: £10.88 You Save: £5.11 (32%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724386649522 Label: Eg Manufacturer: Eg Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Eg Release Date: September 27, 2004 Running Time: 48 minutes Studio: Eg Sales Rank: 2329 MPN: 66495 Disc 1: Related Items:
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 Rating:  - THE All-Time Great I first heard this album in 1978. I had heard Eno with Roxy Music and found him fascinating so, after his departure, kept tabs, listening to Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), the original 'Obscure' albums and No Pussy-Footing. And then this came out - on vinyl. Well, I wore that copy out and had to buy a second. That, too, wore out. Then some bright spark invented CD players. I bought one so that I could listen to this album without the clicks and hiss of vinyl. It was this album that prompted me to buy a CD player. I have now been listening to this album for about 30 years. As soon as I hear those first few unadulterated, simple piano notes, I relax. I slip into a timeless ... Read More: Rating: - The only way to travelSometime in the mid 1970,s Brian Eno was stuck at Cologne,s Bonn Airport for several hours. Was it the interminable frustration and ennui of hanging around the place that riled him ?....no it was the insipid sound system used in the terminal . Using this as a source of inspiration Eno designed music with the specific intent to defuse the anxious fraught atmosphere within an airport terminal . Released in 1978 Music For Airports was the first album on Eno,s new label EG, created especially for the form of music he dubbed "ambient"-a term he used to identify his minimalist approach to the music. The music was looped with tapes of different lengths and other instruments phased in and out of the mix in a complex constantly evolving pattern ... Read More: Rating: - Just a point.Tex it's not MEANT to hold your attention. The clue is in the title "Music for Airports". This is a concept first thought of by Eric Satie with his "wallpaper" music, but only properly realised by the unsung, under-appreciated and absolute genius that is Brian Eno. This is music you can do anything to - go through customs; paint the ceiling; wash the car. Don't think, just enjoy. If you think you haven't heard anything by Eno think again. A ridiculous proportion of the really great albums issued since the early seventies have had some sort of input from him. But he has taken music out of its little box and delivered it to where you live without you knowing it. The BBC have an extensive library of incidental ... Read More: Rating:  - nice but very very repetetiveyes i know what you are going to say - this guy just doesnt appreciate the subtleties of this music. I wouldnt call this cheesy at all (apart from one track 2 which has dated badly) but is just a bit boring. not because its minimal or simple but just because it doesnt contain many melodic ideas. the short phrases just repeat over and over. eno may be a fantastic sound manipulator but this didnt hold my atteantion for long. If you know keith jarret, this sounds to me like Keith falling asleep at the piano while still trying to tinker away. nice music to fall asleep to but not as much depth as people seem to say. I dont know about quiet punk...more like quiet ambient! Rating: - envyI envy this man. he has the best job in the world , just sitting around playing with sound. It's a job he thoroughly deserves because he is the best, everyone else who tries pale into insignificance. Enough of the worship...when I first got this album I didn't play it much but then one day I was listening to it on headphones and it just clicked. It not only helped me to hear differently but also to see differently ..Get it and give it time..think of the randomness of slow falling raindrops but not in a cheesey new agey way...it almost feels punky for some strange reason. |
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