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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 52081
Category: Music
Artist: Brian Eno
Publisher: Astralwerks
Studio: Astralwerks
Manufacturer: Astralwerks
Label: Astralwerks
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 63646
UPC: 724356364622
EAN: 0724356364622
ASIN: B0007GFFVQ
Release Date: March 22, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Aragon | | • | From the Same Hill | | • | Inland Sea | | • | Two Rapid Formations | | • | Slow Water | | • | (1) - Brian Eno, | | • | (2) - Brian Eno, | | • | (3) - Brian Eno, | | • | Alternative 3 | | • | Quartz | | • | Events in Dense Fog | | • | 'There Is Nobody' | | • | Patrolling Wire Borders | | • | A Measured Room | | • | Task Force | | • | M386 | | • | Strange Light | | • | Final Sunset |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
Okay but not great May 5, 2007
I am a big fan of Brian Eno's early abstract work. I like the way he took simple ideas and explored them until they became transformed into something completely different. For example, on "Music for Airports" he recorded women singing single notes, made tape loops of varying lengths from those recordings and let them circulate until many different combinations of notes and silences emerged. The result was beautiful and other-worldly. So, when Eno recorded an album of "soundtrack material" (for non-existant films) it seemed that he had stumbled onto a great outlet for his music. Instead, this is a collection of pieces that sound like floor sweepings from the "Another Green World" sessions. The pieces are short and often sound like passing thoughts that never developed into anything of substance. There are some nice moments on this recording, including some great bass parts and guest appearences by people like Robert Fripp but overall this is one of the weakest of Eno's early recordings.
 Fabulous Eno.... August 1, 2005
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
This isnt really an ambient recording...it was done before "ambient music"...very ethereal pieces...love it. Its a great recording if it doesnt go over your head.
 Remastering errors July 5, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Does anyone have the final word on the degree to which Astralwerks (sic) have screwed up these Eno 'remasters'?
'Another Green World' has the first bars of 'Everything merges with the night' missing, 'Climate Study' is missing from 'More Music For Films, and someone below states that the intro to
'Quartz' on this album is also truncated. Are Astralwerks just a bunch of amateurs or something? Eno must be well pleased with this mess..
 Difficult, undeveloped ideas. June 13, 2005
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
A collection of 18 pieces, some intended for specific films, some evidentally not, Eno's "Music For Films" is one of his most difficult ambient records. The music contained within this disc is moody and cinematic, but its also fractured. With most the tracks less than two minutes long, ideas often do not get the chance to develop to their fullness ("Aragon", "Alternative 3").
Having stated that, there is some fanastic material on here ("From the Same Hill" with some great guitar/synth interplay, the Frippertronics piece "Slow Water", edgy and bizarre "Quartz") that makes it worth seeking out for fans of Eno. For the more curious, try "Discreet Music", "Music for Airports", or "No Pussyfooting" (Fripp & Eno) for a better introduction.
Another Mastering Screw-up June 2, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The music here rates 5 stars, but be warned: the opening sustained note at the beginning of track 10 (Quartz) starts late, cutting off about half of the note. If that's not important to you, order away.
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