A perfect sonic landscape
Written: Nov 19 '00
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Pros: Lovely, haunting, melodic
Cons: Can often be quite stark and melancholy
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| gabby's Full Review: Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno |
Scene: Aurora, IL
Date: August 1999
Event: E-faction
Unrelentlingly hot. Luckily, our small conference had found a tiny air conditioned room at a Motel 6 or somesuch. When I came back from crossing a field to get to a mall with an ATM, the room was dark and Gregory was displaying a vector screensaver onto the wall, and the room was filled with the most haunting yet peaceful music I had ever heard.
Who is this?
Brian Eno - Music for Airports.
Have you ever been to O'Hare? In the Puff Daddy neon tube art walkway? This entire album is like being in that walkway.
Have you ever seen "9 1/2 Weeks"? Do you remember the scene when Mickey Rourke, in his gorgeously stark apartment, gives Kim Basinger a watch - and he puts on some music? That song is from this album - track 1, in fact. And it is so perfect for the scene, for that apartment where time stands still for the characters.
Airports are permanent places designed to provided temporary experiences. To be in an airport is to be between nowhere and anywhere - ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space. A holding area where time displays all the absurdity that physicists know so well.
Brilliant
Recommended:
Yes
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