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Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Brian Eno (Composer, Performer)
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Product Details
  • Composer: Brian Eno
  • Performer: Brian Eno
  • Audio CD (August 31, 1990)
  • SPARS Code: AAD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Editions Eg Records
  • ASIN: B000003S2K
  • Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Music Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  (62 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #85,736 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. 1/1
2. 2/1
3. 1/2
4. 2/2
On this CD:
  1. Ambient 1: Music for Airports 1/1
    Composed by Brian Eno
    with Inge Zelninger, Christa Fast, Robert Wyatt, Christine Gomez

  2. Ambient 1: Music for Airports 2/1
    Composed by Brian Eno
    with Inge Zelninger, Christa Fast, Robert Wyatt, Christine Gomez

  3. Ambient 1: Music for Airports 1/2
    Composed by Brian Eno
    with Inge Zelninger, Christa Fast, Robert Wyatt, Christine Gomez

  4. Ambient 1: Music for Airports 2/2
    Composed by Brian Eno
    with Inge Zelninger, Christa Fast, Robert Wyatt, Christine Gomez

Editorial Reviews
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Eno's theory of the "discreet music" he called ambient was far from the modern chill-out room: the idea was that it should function at very low volumes, unobtrusively coloring the atmosphere of a room. Evolving by tiny gradations, the long pieces of Music For Airports (the first in a series of albums that followed the statement of purpose Discreet Music) defy close attention, but then they're not meant to be listened to consciously; they're meant to serve as a counterpoint to the frantic arcs of travel, or rather to be imagined in that setting. --Douglas Wolk

Amazon.com
This complex sound sculpture was created by Brian Eno in 1978 and was even installed for a while at the Marine Terminal of New York at LaGuardia Airport. The ambient-minimalist soundscape has been alternately described as background Muzak, a profoundly artificial musical milieu, and a groundbreaking studio creation. Eno designed Music for Airports from a few simple notes and the serial organization of variable tape loops that didn't quite match up. It's a groundbreaking elaboration on the aural/spatial dimension that utilizes silence, piano, synthesizer, female voices, and, most importantly, the technology of the studio. A true metaclassic, the "music" is divided into four distinct movements. This record is the first of Eno's ambient series and is undoubtedly the best. --Mitch Myers