Anyone have some other ambient works similar to Eno's? Preferably something more landscapey like music for airports or Apollo. Some of my favorites include Stars of the Lid, Eluvium, Robin Guthrie (So Many Short Years Ago), Brian McBride (Overture for other halfs), and Helios.
Look into Japanese environmental music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx7CyMZVhHY
How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
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Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#62Anyone have some other ambient works similar to Eno's? Preferably something more landscapey like music for airports or Apollo. Some of my favorites include Stars of the Lid, Eluvium, Robin Guthrie (So Many Short Years Ago), Brian McBride (Overture for other halfs), and Helios.
If you like Robin Guthrie, you may like the ambient music of Harold Budd, one of his collaborators. One of the their cool joint projects is the instrumental score for the film Mysterious Skin from 2004.
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#63Anyone have some other ambient works similar to Eno's? Preferably something more landscapey like music for airports or Apollo. Some of my favorites include Stars of the Lid, Eluvium, Robin Guthrie (So Many Short Years Ago), Brian McBride (Overture for other halfs), and Helios.
This should cover a bunch of different Ambient styles, but all of the artists are absolutely fantastic and worth digging into. I'm definitely leaving out a fuckload more, but there are a ton of great suggestions in the other responses, too. Happy listening! :D Biosphere Ryuichi Sakamoto Loscil A Strangely Isolated Place (record label & mix series) Silent Season (record label) Kelly Moran Rafael Anton Irisarri Harold…
Biosphere for sure. Also William Basinski who is somewhat hated but if you love endless loops its great.
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#64The article mentions Eno did the cover designs. I've always assumed he took the cover images from real maps, but I've never found any mention of what they may be. It would be interesting to find them if that were actually the case.
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#65In 1979, I saw Robert Fripp play frippertronics at the Washington Ethical Society. The looping Revoxes were there in all there glory. It was a sight to behold and hear. Parts of the performance show up on one of his albums
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#66This reminds me of "Zaireeka" by the Flaming Lips, an album that was sold as four separate CDs and you would have to cobble together every boombox, stereo, and Walkman in your house to try and play them all at the same time. So, you would hit the "play" button on disc #1, frantically try to match your timing with disc #2, inevitably be a few seconds late on disc #3, etc. The end result was that the music never sounde…
This would be impossible to play on Spotify, without several Spotify accounts. It might explain why these tracks has been mixed together on Spotify.
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#67This reminds me of "Zaireeka" by the Flaming Lips, an album that was sold as four separate CDs and you would have to cobble together every boombox, stereo, and Walkman in your house to try and play them all at the same time. So, you would hit the "play" button on disc #1, frantically try to match your timing with disc #2, inevitably be a few seconds late on disc #3, etc. The end result was that the music never sounde…
I take it every CD contained the same tracks, but each played a recording of a single instrument?
Pretty much. Not surprisingly, Wikipedia does a much better job explaining it than I did [1].
Zaireeka is the eighth studio album by American rock band The Flaming Lips,
released on October 28, 1997 by Warner Bros. Records. The album consists of
four CDs designed so that when played simultaneously on four separate audio
systems, they would produce a harmonic or juxtaposed sound; the discs could
also be played in different combinations, omitting one, two or three discs.
Each of its eight songs consists of four stereo tracks, one from each CD.
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#68This reminds me of "Zaireeka" by the Flaming Lips, an album that was sold as four separate CDs and you would have to cobble together every boombox, stereo, and Walkman in your house to try and play them all at the same time. So, you would hit the "play" button on disc #1, frantically try to match your timing with disc #2, inevitably be a few seconds late on disc #3, etc. The end result was that the music never sounde…
This would be impossible to play on Spotify, without several Spotify accounts. It might explain why these tracks has been mixed together on Spotify.
I've listened to the "combined" version on Spotify and it just doesn't have the same effect. I can distinctly remember having a "WOW" moment the very first time I tried to play all of the CDs together and certain tracks synced up together. I couldn't recreate it a second time though -- each attempt was a bit different.
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#69Anyone have some other ambient works similar to Eno's? Preferably something more landscapey like music for airports or Apollo. Some of my favorites include Stars of the Lid, Eluvium, Robin Guthrie (So Many Short Years Ago), Brian McBride (Overture for other halfs), and Helios.
Kyle Bobby Dunn (apparently he's done some unkind things in the past, but the music stands alone): https://open.spotify.com/album/2NVB7DIA1wTUEM7KmXnWeZ
Hotel Neon: https://open.spotify.com/album/4qpdELAzEbL1nI8fvWtLLE
Re: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
This should cover a bunch of different Ambient styles, but all of the artists are absolutely fantastic and worth digging into. I'm definitely leaving out a fuckload more, but there are a ton of great suggestions in the other responses, too. Happy listening! :D Biosphere Ryuichi Sakamoto Loscil A Strangely Isolated Place (record label & mix series) Silent Season (record label) Kelly Moran Rafael Anton Irisarri Harold…
Biosphere for sure. Also William Basinski who is somewhat hated but if you love endless loops its great.
The Disintegration Loops is lovely and I found it very thought-provoking. The concept of hearing the medium being destroyed, in this sort of breathing / heartbeat / day and night cycle, is a very powerful way to think about mortality.
One of the tracks still sounds like you're hearing someone drowning over the course of 17 minutes and it's terrifying. It's the first track here, though I believe they are named / ordered incorrectly. Just comparing 2 minutes in vs 15 minutes.. it still creeps me out.