BRIAN ENO "AMBIENT 1:MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS" 1978 PVC NM/EX +INNER SLEEVE OOP 1stPRS

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ARTIST: BRIAN ENO (ROXY MUSIC+MORE)

TITLE- “AMBIENT 1:MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS” U.S. 1st PRESSING.

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTOS & BELOW:

A1

1/1

Piano – Robert Wyatt

16:30

A2

2/1

Voice – Christa Fast, Christine Gomez, Inge Zeininger

8:20

B1

1/2

Voice – Christa Fast, Christine Gomez, Inge Zeininger

11:30

B2

2/2

6:00

Companies, etc.

• Licensed From – Ambient Records (2)

• Licensed To – PVC Records

• Distributed By – Jem Records, Inc.

• Copyright (c) – E.G. Music Ltd.

• Produced For – E.G. Records Ltd.

• Mastered At – Sterling Sound

• Pressed By – Hub-Servall Record Mfg. Corp.

Credits

• Composed By – Eno*, Davies* (tracks: A1), Wyatt* (tracks: A1)

• Engineer – Brian Eno, Conny Plank (tracks: B2), David Hutchins* (tracks: A2, B1), Rhett Davies (tracks: A1)

• Producer, Liner Notes, Concept By, Design – Brian Eno

Notes

© 1978 E.G. Music Ltd. ? 1978 E.G. Records Ltd.
Ambient Records, under license to PVC Records. Distributed by JEM Records, Inc.
Printed in USA

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout: PVC-7908-A STERLING HUB

• Matrix / Runout: PVC-7908-B HUB
  

YEAR OF RELEASE- 1978

LABEL- PVC RECORDS

CAT.#- PVC 7908 (AMB 001)

RECORD CONDITION-THE RECORD IS IN NM-/NM CONDITION, NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES,BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. THE AUDIO SOUNDS GREAT. PLAYS SUPER CLEAN!

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN VG+/EX- CONDITION. NICE CLEAN EDGES, NO WRITING, MARKS, TEARS, CLEAN CORNERS. VERY VERY LIGHT RING WEAR TOP CENTER BACK (SEE PHOTO), & VERY TINY CORNER “DING” LOWER RIGHT.

MORE INFO – THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. RECORD COMES IN ORIGINAL “AMBIENT” INNER SLEEVE

MORE INFO ON THE ARTIST/RELEASE:

Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI ; born Brian Peter George Eno, 15 May 1948) is an English musician, record producer, visual artist, and theorist best known for his pioneering work in ambient music and contributions to rock, pop and electronic music.A self-described "non-musician", Eno has helped introduce unique conceptual approaches and recording techniques to contemporary music. He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures.

Born in Suffolk, Eno studied painting and experimental music at the art school of Ipswich Civic College in the mid 1960s, and then at Winchester School of Art. He joined glam rock group Roxy Music as synthesiser player in 1971, recording two albums with the group. He departed in 1973 to record a number of solo albums, coining the term "ambient music" to describe his work on releases such as Another Green World (1975) and Music for Airports (1978). He also collaborated with artists such as Robert Fripp, Cluster, Harold Budd, David Bowie, and David Byrne, and produced albums by artists including John Cale, Jon Hassell, Laraaji, Talking Heads and Devo, and the no wave compilation No New York (1978). In subsequent decades, Eno has continued to record solo albums and work with artists including U2, Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones, Slowdive, Coldplay, James Blake, Kevin Shields, and Damon Albarn.

Dating back to his time as a student, Eno has also worked in other media, including sound installations and his mid-70s co-development of Oblique Strategies, a deck of cards featuring aphorisms intended to spur creative thinking. From the 1970s onwards, Eno's installations have included the sails of the Sydney Opera House in 2000 and the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in 2016. An advocate of a range of humanitarian causes, Eno writes on a variety of subjects and is a founding member of the Long Now Foundation. In 2019, Eno was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music.

Ambient music

Eno released a number of eclectic ambient electronic and acoustic albums. He coined the term "ambient music", which is designed to modify the listener's perception of the surrounding environment. In the liner notes accompanying Ambient 1: Music for Airports, Eno wrote: "Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular, it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."

Eno was hit by a taxi while crossing the street in January 1975 and spent several weeks recuperating at home. His girlfriend brought him an old record of harp music, which he lay down to listen to. He realized that he had set the amplifier to a very low volume, and one channel of the stereo was not working, but he lacked the energy to get up and correct it. "This presented what was for me a new way of hearing music – as part of the ambience of the environment just as the colour of the light and sound of the rain were parts of the ambience."

Eno's first work of ambient music was Discreet Music (1975), again created with an elaborate tape-delay methodology which he diagrammed on the back cover of the LP; it is considered the landmark album of the genre. This was followed by his Ambient series: Music for Airports (Ambient 1), The Plateaux of Mirror (Ambient 2) featuring Harold Budd on keyboard, Day of Radiance (Ambient 3) with American composer Laraaji playing zither and hammered dulcimer, and On Land (Ambient 4)).

Ambient 1: Music for Airports is the sixth studio album by English musician Brian Eno, released in 1978 by Polydor Records. The album consists of four compositions created by layering tape loops of differing lengths, and was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent of defusing the tense, anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal.

Music for Airports was the first of four albums released in Eno's Ambient series, a term which he coined to describe music "as ignorable as it is interesting" that would "induce calm and a space to think."[1] Although it is not the earliest entry in the genre, it was the first album ever to be explicitly created under the label "ambient music".

Background and concept

By the mid 1970s, Eno had begun to move beyond pop and glam rock stylings towards more quiet and unobtrusive music, as seen on the 1975 releases Evening Star (a collaboration with guitarist Robert Fripp) and Discreet Music. In the following year, Eno produced The Pavilion of Dreams by minimalist composer Harold Budd which also explored the genre.

After spending several hours waiting for a flight at Germany's Cologne Bonn Airport and becoming annoyed by its uninspired atmosphere, Eno conceived of an album of music "designed for airports".The music 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 "canned music". To achieve this, Eno sought to create music that would "accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."Rather than brightening and regularizing the atmosphere of an environment as typical background music does, Music for Airports is "intended to induce calm and a space to think."

Music for Airports is the first instalment of Eno's Ambient series of albums of ambient music, conceived with the intent to "produce original pieces ostensibly (but not exclusively) for particular times and situations with a view to building up a small but versatile catalogue of environmental music suited to a wide variety of moods and atmospheres."

Recording

All tracks were composed by Eno except "1/1", which was co-composed by Eno with former Soft Machine drummer and vocalist Robert Wyatt and with producer Rhett Davies.

Music for Airports employs the phasing of tape loops of different lengths. For example, in "1/1", a single piano melody is repeated and at different times other instruments will fade in and out to create a complex, evolving pattern as the sounds fall in and out of sync with each other.

Talking about the first piece, Eno has said:

I had four musicians in the studio, and we were doing some improvising exercises that I'd suggested. I couldn't hear the musicians very well at the time, and I'm sure they couldn't hear each other, but listening back, later, I found this very short section of tape where two pianos, unbeknownst to each other, played melodic lines that interlocked in an interesting way. To make a piece of music out of it, I cut that part out, made a stereo loop on the 24-track, then I discovered I liked it best at half speed, so the instruments sounded very soft, and the whole movement was very slow.

"2/1" and "1/2" each contain four tracks of wordless vocals which loop back on themselves and constantly interact with each other in new ways. Subtle changes in timing occur, adding to the timbre of the pieces. Eno explains of the vocal-only piece:

There are sung notes, sung by three women and myself. One of the notes repeats every 23 1/2 seconds. It is in fact a long loop running around a series of tubular aluminum chairs in Conny Plank's studio. The next lowest loop repeats every 25 7/8 seconds or something like that. The third one every 29 15/16 seconds or something. What I mean is they all repeat in cycles that are called incommensurable — they are not likely to come back into sync again. So this is the piece moving along in time. Your experience of the piece of course is a moment in time, there. So as the piece progresses, what you hear are the various clusterings and configurations of these six basic elements. The basic elements in that particular piece never change. They stay the same. But the piece does appear to have quite a lot of variety

"2/2" was performed with an ARP 2600 synthesizer. 

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