Music : Ambient 1: Music for Airports
from: Astralwerks
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724386649522
Label: Astralwerks
Manufacturer: Astralwerks
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Astralwerks
Release Date: October 05, 2004
Sales Rank: 1353
Studio: Astralwerks
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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
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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
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Easy to listen to. The ULTIMATE trip. Awesome use of space.
I've listened to thousands of recordings over the past 30 years, but this is still in my top 3....the other 2 are "Northern Song" by Steve Tibbetts and "Strata" by Robert Rich/Steve Roach.
5,000 stars. Not for dancing!
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This is one of the best records in music history. Brian Eno develope a simple piano idea by Robert Wyatt, just few notes of pure beauty. Ambient music starts here.
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Luis Mejia - Ambient 1, as it's title carries, was the first concrete ambient work by Brian Eno, the later all time genious of the genre and maybe the only one to figure this out in popular mainstream. His experimental rock pieces used to be graceful and witty, but jet you couldn't stop noticing how those flamboyant experimental sounds could get you in such a profound aura. Music For Airports is an excellent and digestible piece; it's simple, quiet ambient, tape-loop serenity and fragmented changes and slight divisions. With maybe 3 or more pieces of sound, Eno makes the atmosphere not only valuable but enjoyable, and the album passes quickly through your senses. Although, for the airport theme, 1-1 is the master of a hughe number of atmospheric pieces, it settles you down onto the airport carries you through a very non-publicitary attraction, and drops you off to your visit fresh and new. Instead, my disgust with the other pieces is that they sort of "break off" the airport tie; with 2-1 being a repeating chorus-like sequence (not bad at all) it sounds as true ambient ground foundation, and just the later 1-2 has a more subjective, even catchy beat; 2-2 is the palpable combination and resume of the whole work, each subtle and nice, but again, it doesn't sound so much "airport-like". We all may have experienced the later much more workful pieces, true modernist works of art, but still Ambient 1 will get you there; make you understand some things about the music, and leave you ... Read More
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Brian Eno was not necessarily the founder of ambient music. I am not an expert on early ambient music so I cannot cite any earlier artists except perhaps Tangerine Dream and Cluster, but by the time Brian Eno created his first ambient album, Discreet Music, music as atmosphere was an idea that had already been toyed around with in modern music. In fact, even Brian Eno had experimented with ambiance before Discreet Music, in particular with his atmospheric instrumentals on his other 1975 album released two months earlier, Another Green World, and on his 1973 joint effort with Robert Fripp entitled No Pussyfooting.
However, it was not until 1978's Music For Airports that people started taking notice of Brian Eno's ambient music. I would even go so far as to say that Music For Airports was the breakthrough ambient album that skyrocketed the genre into the public conscience. Why, then, did Another Green World, No Pussyfooting, Discreet Music, or any of the other ambient works created before 1978 such as Evening Star and Music For Films do the same job? In fact, Another Green World might have. It reigns as Eno's masterpiece, but it was not focused in one direction, and while it did experiment with ambiance, it was also a vocal pop/rock album. No Pussyfooting was a bit of a departure. It is the first known piece of "system based music" coming from Eno, as he and Robert Fripp pioneered the "Frippertonics" technique that involved bouncing recordings off of one another. Discreet ... Read More
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My favourite music for relaxation and/or meditative states of mind. Music for Airports is never intruding and uses soothing sounds rather than melodies. More minimalistic than most new age music of today.
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