讀音樂 - 男孩吶喊自由鳥 / 論機場音樂 ( Music For Airports )

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Brian Eno's Music for Airports (1978)












Released : March 1978
Recorded : London/Cologne, 1978
Genre : Electronic music, Ambient, Experimental
Length : 48:32
Producer : Brian Eno

Track listing
( The track labeling is the way it is because of the album's first release (1979) as an LP, and so the first track means "first track, first side", and so on.)

"1/1" : Acoustic and electric piano; synthesizer. – 16:30
"2/1" : Vocals; synthesizer. – 8:20
"1/2" : Vocals; acoustic piano. – 11:30
"2/2" : Synthesizer only. – 6:00 (9:38 in the Working Backwards box edition, 1983)

*The CD pressing adds thirty seconds of silence after every song, including one after "2/2" has completed.

** Source From Wikipedia: Music for Airports **



Brian Eno's Music for Airports (1978) played a very important part in the concept and development of ambient music. One could say that ambient music is not a music to be listened to, but a music to be heard, as a subliminal background creating a soundscape for various places or buildings. Supermarkets and elevators are usually places where a poor music is played, one calls it muzak. Brian Eno's idea was to conceive a sophisticated musical soundscape instead of this anonymous FM music, and he chose airports as the best places where such a music could be heard and understood, creating an unusual and quiet sonic background among all the noises and announcements of a airport terminal.


Music for Airports is a masterpiece, with its subtle piano tracks, its complex electronic treatments, its choral parts, and its slow and organic development.


In 1998, Point Music, a label directed by Philip Glass, released this amazing interpretation of Music for Airports by Bang on a Can: Robert Black (bass), Lisa Moore (piano, keyboards), Evan Ziporyn (clarinet, bass clarinet), Maya Beiser (cello), Steven Schick (percussion), a choir of female voices and additional musicians playing pipa, flute, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, cello, mandolin and mandocello.


This chamber music ensemble plays Eno's compositions with fidelity and creativity at the same times. The acoustic instruments create a rich harmonic soundscape and add a very original touch to the original recording.


This peaceful, quiet and slow music is very evocative and poetic: the cover version is as beautiful as the original...

** Source From Just Another Garden**






Bang on a can
- Music for Airports / Brian Eno (1998)