The original
Written: May 24 '00
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Pros: A classic - the origins of popularly recognized ambient
Cons: A bit too new-agey and synthetic for my tastes
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| gulik's Full Review: Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno |
Eno is the man who popularized music as wallpaper and is considered responsible for the word 'ambient' being used to describe it. Although all of Eno's Ambient albums are nice to have around as historical documents, most of them are a bit too melodic for my taste and rely too heavily on very tonal, overly synthetic sounds. This usually results in a scary new-agey sound that calls to mind images of fluorescent unicorns and crystals and such.
The glaring exception is 'On Land,' which has a distant rumbling feel to it, as if it were a sleepy pile of synthesizers being heard through a closed door. Ambient 1 hangs somewhere in between these two styles, and while it is very pretty and tonal it still has more of the textural content that I crave.
This is without a doubt a classic release - a fairly definitive image of where ambient music came from. Check it out, but remember it's meant to be listened to passively.
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