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180 Gram Vinyl
Though not the earliest entry in the genre (which Eno makes no claim to have invented), āAmbient 1 (Music For Airports)ā was the first album ever to be explicitly labelled āambient musicā.
Eno had previously created similarly quiet, unobtrusive music on albums āEvening Starā, āDiscreet Musicā, and Harold Budd's āThe Pavilion of Dreamsā (which he produced), but this was the first album to give it precedence as a cohesive concept. He gave his explanation of and aspirations for ambient music in this short 1978 essay.
Eno conceived the idea for āMusic For Airportsā while spending several hours waiting at Cologne Bonn Airport, becoming annoyed by the uninspired sound and the atmosphere it created. The recording was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent of defusing the tense, anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal, by avoiding the derivative and familiar elements of typical ācanned musicā.
The album features contributions from Robert Wyatt and Rhett Davies.
āAmbient 1 (Music For Airports)ā was followed by Harold Budd and Brian Enoās āAmbient 2 (The Plateaux of Mirror)ā and āAmbient 3 (Day Of Radiance)ā by Laraaji, which was also produced by Eno.
Disc 1Ā
1 1/1 (Acoustic and Electric Piano; Synthesizer.) Brian Eno, Rhett Davies, Robert Wyatt 16:30
2 2/1 (Vocals; Synthesizer.) :20
Disc 2Ā
1 1/2 (Vocals; Acoustic Piano.) 11:30
2 2/2 (Synthesizer Only. Lasts 9:38 6:00
Release Date: 16 Nov 2018
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