Editorial Reviews
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Music Review:
Music Review
Liszt: Les Preludes; Hungarian Rhapsodies 2 & 6; Hungarian Fantasy
It's a Finger Lickin Thang, Vol. 2
Rapper's Delight/Apache [Import]
Mozart: Violin Concerto, K219; Symphony No. 35 "Haffner"; Haydn: Symphony No. 92 "Oxford"
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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... read more