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Brian's pioneering Ambient album from 1978. Music for Airports is so delicate, lovely, and aesthetically moving, that it has been known to give rise to sensations of flying, being enfolded in warm blankets, or watching a vision take place in the heavens. If this sounds like an overstatement, you haven't heard the album. A four part 'piece' performed entirely on synthesizer and piano, Eno's composition finds a referent more in abstract painting (one visualizes bold blocks of colour in warm hues) than in any musical genre. resonant synthesizer notes resembling bells or voices are interwoven with bits of melody, overlapping each other, and fading in and out of an architectural silence. Essentially, it's the kind of music one might hear in heaven, and Eno manages to present it without the pretense or cheese that typify most of what later became 'new age' music. Music for Airports stands against the prejudices of even the staunchest ambient music critics, partly because Eno did it first, but mostly because this disc is genuine, pure, and achingly beautiful.

2LP - Half Speed Mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios and presented in a Gatefold sleeve on Double 180 Gram Heavyweight Black albums which are played at 45rpm for a superior listening experience. Now housed in a Gatefold sleeve with an Obi and Abbey Road Certificate. Contains a Download.

LP - Standard Version. Cut at Abbey Road Studios at 33RPM and pressed on 180 Gram Black Heavyweight Vinyl and Download.

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Brian Eno

Ambient 1: Music For Airports

UMC
Released03/08/2009Catalogue Numberenocdx6Learn more
Standard Version. Cut at Abbey Road Studios at 33RPM and pressed on 180 Gram Black Heavyweight Vinyl and Download.
Released16/11/2018Catalogue NumberENOLP6Learn more

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