180g Vinyl LP!
Though not the earliest entry in the genre (which Eno makes no claim to haveinvented), Ambient 1 (Music For Airports) was the first album ever to beexplicitly labelled ‘ambient music’.
Eno had previously created similarly quiet, unobtrusive music on albums EveningStar, Discreet Music, and Harold Budd’s The Pavilion of Dreams (which heproduced), but this was the first album to give it precedence as a cohesiveconcept. He gave his explanation of and aspirations for ambient music in thisshort 1978 essay.
Eno conceived the idea for Music For Airports while spending several hourswaiting at Cologne Bonn Airport, becoming annoyed by the uninspired sound andthe atmosphere it created. The recording was designed to be continuously loopedas a sound installation, with the intent of defusing the tense, anxiousatmosphere of an airport terminal, by avoiding the derivative and familiarelements of typical ‘canned music’.
The album features contributions from Robert Wyatt and Rhett Davies. Ambient 1(Music For Airports) was followed by Harold Budd and Brian Eno’s Ambient 2 (ThePlateaux of Mirror) and Ambient 3 (Day Of Radiance) by Laraaji, which was alsoproduced by Eno.
Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• Made in Czech Republic
Selections:
Side A:
1. 1/1
2. 2/1
Side B:
1. 1/2
2. 2/2
