Brian Eno - Ambient 1 Music For Airports LP Vinyl

Brians 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 havent heard the album. A four part piece performed entirely on synthesizer and piano, Enos 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, its 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, pa