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Music For Airports
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An avant-garde ensemble playing the 1978 Brian Eno piece which put ambient music on the map. Eno's idea was to make a series of tape loops into tightly composed Muzak. He wanted a sonic backdrop for bland public spaces that would reward close listening. Bang on a Can, playing acoustic and electric instruments, breathe life into it, making the music's neutrality seem coldly beautiful. The piece is divided into four parts, each consisting of a few gentle, minimal figures, calmly repeated and shifted. Rhythm is eliminated and time seems to stretch. What is revealed is the sensuousness possible in a single note. Music has never been the same. This is the best place to hear where it changed. --Steve Tignor
Review
[Brian] Eno's work is a finished studio product readily available in shops, exactly as the composer meant it to be heard. So Micheal Gordon's faithfully spare arrangement of "1/1" seems particularly pointless. (Ask any art forger--the original may be worth a fortune, but a good copy is just a fake.) And while Bank on a Can is smart enough to know that Music for Airports spawned whole genres of music (from the elegance of ambient to the evil incarnation of new age), they get hung up on whether their own variation is the equivalent of a pop cover version or a classical canonization.... This album in no way adds to or improves upon Eno's own creation. -- Option
[F]our cuts of translucently soothing bleeps and ahhs--with a small orchestra and chorus of New York alterna-music stalwarts. For the most part, it works; the unpredictability of the one-take "live" recording warms up Eno's swatches of sound, making for a futuristic soundscape that's oddly nostalgic. -- Entertainment Weekly
ASIN: B0000069CI
VSKU: DBV.B0000069CI.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Eno, Brian|Lisa Moore|Katie Geissinger|Bang On A Can|Phyllis Jo Kubey|Alexandra Montano|Mary Marathé
Binding: Audio cd
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Condition Notes: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!
ASIN: B0000069CI
VSKU: DBV.B0000069CI.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Eno, Brian|Lisa Moore|Katie Geissinger|Bang On A Can|Phyllis Jo Kubey|Alexandra Montano|Mary Marathé
Binding: Audio cd
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!
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