Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports (Vinyl LP 180g)
180g Vinyl • Reissue • Made in the EU
‘1/1’ starts with a few piano notes and a lot of air. The phrases come back on their own schedule, overlapping, never quite in the same order twice. Sixteen minutes, and it never asks for your attention. ‘2/1’ drops the piano for wordless voices, single held notes swelling and fading as the loops slide past each other. ‘1/2’ folds the piano back in among those voices, cooler and darker than ‘1/1’. ‘2/2’ ends on synthesiser alone, slowed right down and soaked in echo. The record that named ambient. Best heard quietly, with a window open.
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Ambient 1: Music For Airports is the ambient record that gave the genre its name, the first Brian Eno album released under that label and the opening entry in his Ambient series, issued in early 1979.
Eno conceived it after hours spent waiting at Cologne Bonn Airport, annoyed by the atmosphere there, and set out to make something that could sit in a public space without demanding attention. The four untitled pieces are built from tape loops of differing lengths, so phrases drift in and out of alignment rather than repeating on a fixed cycle.
The credits are few. Robert Wyatt plays piano on ‘1/1’, which he co-composed with Eno and Rhett Davies. Christa Fast, Christine Gomez and Inge Zeininger provide the wordless voices on ‘2/1’ and ‘1/2’, and Conny Plank engineered ‘2/2’ at his studio in Cologne.
This edition is a single LP on 180 gram vinyl from Virgin EMI Records, made in the EU, carrying the original four pieces of minimal electronic music across two sides.
The series continued with Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror with Harold Budd, Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance by Laraaji with Eno producing, and Ambient 4: On Land. Nearly four decades later, Eno returned to the same idea with Reflection, a single slow-moving generative piece released on Warp in 2017, and the two records sit side by side naturally.
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