- Audio CD (Aug 13 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: EMI
- ASIN: B0002PZVHK
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #15,715 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Lizard Point |
| 2. The Lost Day |
| 3. Tal Coat |
| 4. Shadow |
| 5. Lantern Marsh |
| 6. Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) |
| 7. A Clearing |
| 8. Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960 |
Product Description
Amazon.com essential recording
Released in 1982, On Land is Eno's most mature, perfect ambient work. Combining low, rumbling synths with eerie banging and clanking and the occasional wild-animal chirp or grumble, this recording places the listener alone, in the midst of a massive piece of sonic landscaping. And Eno has left no detail to chance. In fact, the work is so complete that when Eno suggests a windswept plain, the listener gets a chill. When trumpeter Jon Hassell bays with a softly disturbing imitation of a wounded beast, the first instinct is to scan the horizon for its glinting eyes. So subtle, intuitive, and well paced is this recording that as it slips quietly from the speakers and into every corner of the listening room, it transforms the space into a gently pulsing sound environment that seems strangely out of time and away from everything. It's a place you'll be drawn to time and time again. An ageless masterwork. --S. Duda
Album Description
UK reissue of this 1982 album from the esteemed British composer, producer and musician, who has been credited with single-handedly creating Ambient music and helping to inspire multitudes of Punk, Glam, New Romantic, New Wave and Post-Punk outfits since the mid '70s. Virgin. 2009.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Addictive,
By SPM "scott_maykrantz" (Eugene, Oregon) - See all my reviews
This review is from: On Land (Audio CD)
Brian Eno created a minor masterpiece with this CD. As a longtime heavy metal fan, I'm surprised at how often I listen to this. The music is deceptively simple, based on isolated keyboard notes and a background of natural sounds. It doesn't sound like a field recording --- you can tell it was created in a studio --- but it has a wonderfully organic feel to it.The biggest surprise is that the tracks have so much variation. Like Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works II, each song maps out a different piece of sonic territory. These songs are full of beautiful ideas and restraint. Buy this and you'll listen to it every day for years.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Timeless ambient,
By Kenneth Wong (Singapore, Singapore Singapore) - See all my reviews
This review is from: On Land (Audio CD)
No Ambient recording has come this close to being a classic. Ambient one was a acoutic piano new age sound alike while Ambient 4 truely defines ambient. The album contains tracks which Eno has masterfully uses sound from the environment (your ambient) to create music. Truly profound is the way how silence could be made audible and then slowly create mood and finally a tune in the silence. Every environmental sound blends in beatifully. The most amazing track is "Unfamiliar Wind" where frogs croak was used as a wind instrument, beautiful music was composed using the sound of frogs croaking in the night. This record challendges you to listen intently to the sound of silence and the music that nature plays for us every moment of our life. This is truly ambient.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
GNOSTIC LIMINALITIES,
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This review is from: On Land (Audio CD)
I SQUIRM WHEN A CUSTOMER ASKS ME TO SUGGEST AN AMBIENT RECORDING AND THEN THEY SEE TIM JANIS, YANNI OR JOHN TESH. ENO'S 'ON LAND' IS ONE OF THE MOST SOOTHING, LONELY, SPARSE, REVERIE INDUCING, ATMOSPHERIC AND HAUNTING SOUNDSCAPES I'VE HEARD. I SUGGEST IT NOW TO ONLY MY BEST FRIENDS...ISN'T THAT ELITIST?
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