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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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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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5.0 out of 5 stars
Music for Airports...Sunrises too!,
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This review is from: Music for Airports (Audio CD)
We use to play this record around 5:30 am when the sun was rising.This was such wonderful sunrise music, also especially comforting for a mind that had been up all night on LSD.
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FABULOUS...,
By Annie B (Toronto, ON CANADA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ambient 1 Music For Airports (Audio CD)
I had owned this back in LP form when it first came out and loved it then. It has stayed in the back of my mind for a couple of decades and then I decided to try and find an old copy somewhere. All the music stores I went to knew about it but had no copies...I was sooo happy to find it on Amazon! I couldn't believe how crisp it sounded. I tried to entice my 23 year old daughter into listen to it but she said she wasn't interested in music from the 70's. I tried to explain 'abient', but couldn't really. I tried to explain the music, but couldn't. Then she came in to the room one afternoon when I had it on and it blew her mind. Now I have to order another one I guess 'cause she's always got my CD! She turned her friends on to it, and they're all hooked, too. "It makes me float," she says "just what I need after a crazy day and tons of studying."Annie B. Toronto
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Apt for Airports, Eno is a major innovator,
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This review is from: Music for Airports (Audio CD)
Nearly everyone who uses a computer is familiar with at least one piece of Eno's work; he wrote the little 3 second Windows booting-up music for Microsoft.This album is a perpetual favorite, one of the New Age genre classics. Divided into 4 sections ("1/1," "2/1," "1/2," and "2/2"), it soothes the listener with repetitive piano and synthesizer motifs, and adds the color of chimes and vocals. This is the "ambient" music style, something to play while you need to concentrate, perhaps, or to relax or go to sleep by. I can also recommend the newer "Glitters is Gold" which also has non-linear music of this type.
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