The Most Ambient Album In The World...Ever.
The most ambient album in the world has got to be Ambient 1 (Music For Airports) By Brian Eno, for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, here's Brian himself, from the album sleeve,
"Over the past three years, I have become interested in the use of music as ambience...I have begun using the term Ambient Music. An ambience is defined as an atmosphere, or a surrounding influence: a tint. Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think. 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."
So there you have it- if Eno himself invented and labelled Ambient Music, then it stands to reason that it's probably him that would produce the most ambient album in the world..ever, init?
My other, and much more convincing argument for this particular album, the 1st in the genre, to be dubbed The Most Ambient Album In The World would have to be based on the following true story.
A couple of weeks back I was tuned into that Pandora site, where it generates customised playlists of music for you, based on your preferences for different bands/music. It was playing my Orb playlist, a good mix of ambient type stuff that's nice background for when you're reading or writing or just wanting to subtly drown out the noise of next door's tele. On this occasion a certain song had been playing now for about 10minutes, chilling me out nicely, so I looked up so see what this particularly interesting/ignorable track was and noticed it was from Ambient 1 (Music For Airports) By Brian Eno AVAILABLE TO BUY NOW FROM AMAZON. Aye, that sounds good that, I thought, I wonder how much Amazon is selling it for? Minutes later my basket was empty once again, and Ambient 1 (Music For Airports) By Brian Eno was winging it's way across the sea from the states. I was looking forward to it's arrival until a couple of days later when I was looking through some CD's for something ignorable/interesting to play and I noticed that there, already in my fucken collection, was Ambient fucken 1 (Music For Fucken Airports) By Brian Fucken Eno!
I mean, how much more fucken ambient an album can you get?
An album I've listened to on a good few occasions already, and I end up buying it again cos I didn't even recognise it?
"Intended to induce calm" is it Brian ?
Not that night-I was fucken livid!
Seven fucken quid that cost me, for a fucken doubler.
Bastard.
Firstly, here's Brian himself, from the album sleeve,
"Over the past three years, I have become interested in the use of music as ambience...I have begun using the term Ambient Music. An ambience is defined as an atmosphere, or a surrounding influence: a tint. Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think. 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."
So there you have it- if Eno himself invented and labelled Ambient Music, then it stands to reason that it's probably him that would produce the most ambient album in the world..ever, init?
My other, and much more convincing argument for this particular album, the 1st in the genre, to be dubbed The Most Ambient Album In The World would have to be based on the following true story.
A couple of weeks back I was tuned into that Pandora site, where it generates customised playlists of music for you, based on your preferences for different bands/music. It was playing my Orb playlist, a good mix of ambient type stuff that's nice background for when you're reading or writing or just wanting to subtly drown out the noise of next door's tele. On this occasion a certain song had been playing now for about 10minutes, chilling me out nicely, so I looked up so see what this particularly interesting/ignorable track was and noticed it was from Ambient 1 (Music For Airports) By Brian Eno AVAILABLE TO BUY NOW FROM AMAZON. Aye, that sounds good that, I thought, I wonder how much Amazon is selling it for? Minutes later my basket was empty once again, and Ambient 1 (Music For Airports) By Brian Eno was winging it's way across the sea from the states. I was looking forward to it's arrival until a couple of days later when I was looking through some CD's for something ignorable/interesting to play and I noticed that there, already in my fucken collection, was Ambient fucken 1 (Music For Fucken Airports) By Brian Fucken Eno!
I mean, how much more fucken ambient an album can you get?
An album I've listened to on a good few occasions already, and I end up buying it again cos I didn't even recognise it?
"Intended to induce calm" is it Brian ?
Not that night-I was fucken livid!
Seven fucken quid that cost me, for a fucken doubler.
Bastard.
posted by Alias at 4:35 PM
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