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Album Notes Personnel: Brian Eno (various instruments); Christa Fast, Christine Gomez, Inge Zeininger (vocals); Robert Wyatt (piano).Engineers include: Conny Plank, Rhett Davies, Brian Eno.Considered by many to be the ultimate ambient album, MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS is so delicate, lovely, and aesthetically moving, that it has been known to give rise to sensations of flying, being enfolded in warm blankets, or watching a vision take place in the heavens. If this sounds like an overstatement, you haven't heard the album. A four part "piece" performed entirely on synthesizer and piano, Eno's composition finds a referent more in abstract painting (one visualizes bold blocks of color in warm hues) than in any musical genre. Resonant synthesizer notes resembling bells or voices are interwoven with bits of melody, overlapping each other, and fading in and out of an architectural silence. Essentially, it's the kind of music one might hear in heaven, and Eno manages to present it without the pretense or cheese that typify most of what later became "new age" music. MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS stands against the prejudices of even the staunchest ambient music critics, partly because Eno did it first, but mostly because this disc is genuine, pure, and achingly beautiful. Editorial Reviews Q (07/01/1999) | |||||||||||||||
Reviews  Brian Eno - Music For Airports (Ambient 1)Review created: 23/06/08 by:  This is wonderful background music for quiet contemplation when you don't want anything too intrusive. I'd heard one track before buying and that was enough to get me to buy...and it's been played constantly! Review ID: 10000000007678126 Was this review helpful? Report this review  Music for writing2 of 3 people found this review helpful. I bought this CD after reading an interview with an author (name of David Mitchell, I think) who wrote the excellent "Cloud Atlas", in which he said that when he was in his writing shed at the bottom of his garden this was what he listened to. It is very unintrusive music, some may say anodyne (I do play it at bedtime) but restful and makes good background noise for sudoku, crosswords or just writing Booker Prize-winning novels Review ID: 10000000001286861 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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