It is deceptively powerful, like Ambient 1 on the whole (for some reason Ambient 1 is the LP that I listen to least from his ambient stuff; maybe it's simplicity had me thinking I'd had it all sussed out), yet it stands apart from the whole set and elevates it all. For me this song captures perfectly the solitude one might feel extremely early in the morning...but also the apparent objectivity of nature...it is like a rock or a cloud...it is just *there,* indifferent to our feelings about it.
No doubt a goodtrack by a big maestro....but nothing special, and NOTHING to do compared to "The Pearl" and other masterpieces cmposed by Eno with Harold Budd, the True master of Ambient and Music in general. Listen
songs like these make me exapand my look, i don't know, may sound crazy but it kinda make me feel the nature. your problems go away because you see that you are nothing but a piece of the whole world's nature and personal shit doesn't matter anything beside the greatness of earth
This might be strange, but this music actually reminds me of the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan when the old Pvt. Ryan is walking through the cemetery.
Brian Eno has come up with many many beautiful tracks but this is truly one of his most profound - so filled with longing and emotion it is almost impossible to describe in words the feelings and emotions that this track somehow conjures up in many listeners...
My top 3 Ambient albums would be this one, Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks and Selected Ambient Works Vol. II by Aphex Twin. Two out of 3 ain't bad.
Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining has very similar music to this around 10minutes in (where the helicopter footage follows the Torrance's car through the Colorado valley's). I don't think Eno had anything to do with the musical score of the Shining. Has anyone any idea who composed the music that I'm referring to in the film?
You rock -- The Shining is my all-time favorite film (I'm a huge horror fan, plus I love Kubrick, so thus fave film). Anyways, Wendy Carlos did that opening music. I LOVE her stuff.
I'd say Eno's stuff is a hair too happy for a movie like The Shining, but I know what you mean.
@mildredsmittens : The piece you are referring to in the shining is by Wendy Carlos and is actually an electronic re-working of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique - I believe it can be obtained on one of Wendy's re-issue cd's - check out her website.
@mildredsmittens That long, eerie, portentious choppershot in "The Shining" was watched by me to the synth version of Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique". Right?
@mildredsmittens Yes, that was a piece by Wendy Carlos called "Rocky Mountains", using a Circon, a sort of round, altered Theremin (google it with her name and you'll see). The overlap in Rocky Mountains causes a similar effect as in 2/2. The effect was achieved in both cases with tape loops, though I believe 2/2 was made with several tape loops of various lengths being run at the same time, producing the ethereal, random effect you hear here.
@mildredsmittens I think it's by Wendy Carlos. Isn't there something about the whole intact Shining soundtrack not having been released, or only released on LP, or something like that?
@atomic161 I think it's available, or at least a lot of it is. The unused soundtrack is fantastic. The Jack death music and the clockwork title music are just haunting.
@lodgesound Thanks for the reply, but I mean the scene from when she's just met holly to when she's running down the beach. Any idea what the song is?
@paintedbishop Hi there; The piece you are referring to ( just checked the film) is called 8M1 by Brian Eno - it is on the original score to the film which - wait for it - is not available anywhere and is not going to be. The version used in the scene here is diiferent even from the soundtrack - I have the ability to mix down a raw version of the music for you using the stems from the film track. The other most complete version of this track is during the credit roller for the film.
Guess we should give credit to where credit is due and Brian Eno's music is always a breathtaking mastrepiece. Ambient for the Ages! Long Live Brian Eno!
This piece goes to prove why Brian Eno is the king of ambient music. A beuatiful piece of music and one that is truly inspirational. I love this kind of music and i have to say i am a fan of Brian Eno as well as other musicians that work in this sub-genre of electronic music such as Klaus Schulze, Robert Miles and others. My own music is influenced by this kind of music also, although if i had even a tenth of the tallent of Brian Eno, i'd be happy.
Oh man, funny you mention that -- I discovered that track about a month ago. My GOD. Easily one of Eno's most amazing tracks ever. I still think 2/2 beats it out, but An Ending (Ascent) is up there in the Top 5.
Whenever I listen to An Ending (Ascent), I imagine a room lit with tons of lit candles, like a church or a funeral wake or something. Eno's music conjures up amazing mental imagery like that, at least for me.
@coffeeintheface The movie Traffic used the Ascent pitch perfect (pun intended) with it's last scene where Bencio del Toro is in the bleachers at the little league game that the DEA built for him in Tijuana...
Benicio:"You like baseball? We need lights for the parks, so kids can play at night. So they can play baseball. So they don't become burros para los malones. Everyone likes baseball. Everyone likes parks."
@coffeeintheface Brian Eno's "An Ending (Ascent)" was used pitch perfect (pun intended) in the movie ''Traffic", where Benicio is in the bleachers watching the kids play baseball:
Javier (Benecio del Toro): "You like baseball? We need lights for the parks, so kids can play at night. So they can play baseball. So they don’t become burros para los malones. Everyone likes baseball. Everyone likes parks."
SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL.....i DEAL WITH ALOT OF PAIN HEALTHWISE...AND WHEN I LISTEN TO THIS i FORGET ALL ABOUT MY PAIN AND MY PROBLEMS FOR THAT MATTER. tHANK YOU MR ENO. FROM THE HEART...THANK YOU.
Funny, I could never get into a lot of Floyd, haha. So basically the opposite for me, because Eno I'm in love with. But the song Echoes and Shine On Parts 6-10 are two of the greatest songs I've ever heard.
This particular song is probably the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard -- seriously, this is being played at my funeral hopefully.
Echoes is my favorite Floyd song. I would check out some of Floyd's very early stuff when they did more things like Echoes. For instance, you should check out the Live from Pompeii version of Saucerful of Secrets and Atom Heart Mother.
It's also amazing to know that this was essentially an improvised piece, with the randomly selected intervals and all.
Since you like Eno, I also highly recommend Robert Fripp's solo soundscape works. All the albums are improvised, live, and incredible. Similar to Eno, but darker and more emotional. He has a track entitled "Sky" on his 1994 album "Radiophonics", that is a true toss-up with "2/2" for the title of the greatest ambient track ever.
This is my favorite piece on "Music For Airports". I recently made a continuous 76-minute loop of this piece by using Audacity to crossfade its end to its beginning six or seven times. I then burned it onto a CD and use it to play at night when I sleep. Very peaceful and beautiful. One of Eno's very best.
I listen to it a lot in the dark; it's a very serene piece, that sounds like the auditory equivalent of an emotional closure. I'm strongly considering having it played at my funeral.
Time to sleep... but it keeps me awake...
MusicLoveSite 3 weeks ago 2
It is deceptively powerful, like Ambient 1 on the whole (for some reason Ambient 1 is the LP that I listen to least from his ambient stuff; maybe it's simplicity had me thinking I'd had it all sussed out), yet it stands apart from the whole set and elevates it all. For me this song captures perfectly the solitude one might feel extremely early in the morning...but also the apparent objectivity of nature...it is like a rock or a cloud...it is just *there,* indifferent to our feelings about it.
szeal 1 month ago
No doubt a goodtrack by a big maestro....but nothing special, and NOTHING to do compared to "The Pearl" and other masterpieces cmposed by Eno with Harold Budd, the True master of Ambient and Music in general. Listen
reliabilityinmind 7 months ago
songs like these make me exapand my look, i don't know, may sound crazy but it kinda make me feel the nature. your problems go away because you see that you are nothing but a piece of the whole world's nature and personal shit doesn't matter anything beside the greatness of earth
baskieb1 9 months ago
Perfect!
MyAcedog 10 months ago
my favorite song off "Ambient 1" too.
NeonFoxLetsPlays 11 months ago
I love this kind of music.
electrickithara 1 year ago
Nice ARP 2600 Sound :)
BenBlauRecordings 1 year ago
RIFLUDO, como dice memo rios: aplausos aplausos!!
lamatriarca1278 1 year ago
This might be strange, but this music actually reminds me of the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan when the old Pvt. Ryan is walking through the cemetery.
drpwninator 1 year ago
this reminds me of summer nights cause i listened to it to ease my anxiety and fall asleep in the summer.
forman1200 1 year ago
For some reason this reminds me of tampura music.
RobbytheLion 1 year ago
Kubrick's The Shining- Wendy Carlos on a Moog synthesiser
Locust1313 1 year ago
sound awesome, kind of remember me of vangelis
WilsoniteX 1 year ago
Brian Eno has come up with many many beautiful tracks but this is truly one of his most profound - so filled with longing and emotion it is almost impossible to describe in words the feelings and emotions that this track somehow conjures up in many listeners...
lodgesound 1 year ago
I LOVE this....sooo relaxing....it's been a track that has kept me sane for years..
joecoolmccall 1 year ago
My top 3 Ambient albums would be this one, Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks and Selected Ambient Works Vol. II by Aphex Twin. Two out of 3 ain't bad.
BSHFTW 1 year ago
Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining has very similar music to this around 10minutes in (where the helicopter footage follows the Torrance's car through the Colorado valley's). I don't think Eno had anything to do with the musical score of the Shining. Has anyone any idea who composed the music that I'm referring to in the film?
mildredsmittens 1 year ago
You rock -- The Shining is my all-time favorite film (I'm a huge horror fan, plus I love Kubrick, so thus fave film). Anyways, Wendy Carlos did that opening music. I LOVE her stuff.
I'd say Eno's stuff is a hair too happy for a movie like The Shining, but I know what you mean.
coffeeintheface 1 year ago
@mildredsmittens : The piece you are referring to in the shining is by Wendy Carlos and is actually an electronic re-working of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique - I believe it can be obtained on one of Wendy's re-issue cd's - check out her website.
lodgesound 1 year ago
@mildredsmittens That long, eerie, portentious choppershot in "The Shining" was watched by me to the synth version of Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique". Right?
radiootoo 1 year ago
@mildredsmittens Yes, that was a piece by Wendy Carlos called "Rocky Mountains", using a Circon, a sort of round, altered Theremin (google it with her name and you'll see). The overlap in Rocky Mountains causes a similar effect as in 2/2. The effect was achieved in both cases with tape loops, though I believe 2/2 was made with several tape loops of various lengths being run at the same time, producing the ethereal, random effect you hear here.
Channel84V 1 year ago
@mildredsmittens I think it's by Wendy Carlos. Isn't there something about the whole intact Shining soundtrack not having been released, or only released on LP, or something like that?
atomic161 6 months ago
@atomic161 I think it's available, or at least a lot of it is. The unused soundtrack is fantastic. The Jack death music and the clockwork title music are just haunting.
coffeeintheface 5 months ago
which one is playing in the lovely bones scene when suzie is with holly right before the dad starts smashing his ship/bottle collection?
paintedbishop 1 year ago
@paintedbishop : "The Big Ship" from the Brian Eno album "Another Green World"
lodgesound 1 year ago
@lodgesound Thanks for the reply, but I mean the scene from when she's just met holly to when she's running down the beach. Any idea what the song is?
paintedbishop 1 year ago
@paintedbishop Hi there; The piece you are referring to ( just checked the film) is called 8M1 by Brian Eno - it is on the original score to the film which - wait for it - is not available anywhere and is not going to be. The version used in the scene here is diiferent even from the soundtrack - I have the ability to mix down a raw version of the music for you using the stems from the film track. The other most complete version of this track is during the credit roller for the film.
lodgesound 1 year ago
@paintedbishop pm me - I may be able to help you out here...
lodgesound 1 year ago
@lodgesound Thanks I found the song here on youtube. It's pretty close to the version in the film.
paintedbishop 1 year ago
@paintedbishop Glad you found it - the score to this film is unbelievably moving in places..
lodgesound 1 year ago
Beautiful video with great images. Thank you.
kpipe6167 1 year ago
Guess we should give credit to where credit is due and Brian Eno's music is always a breathtaking mastrepiece. Ambient for the Ages! Long Live Brian Eno!
Ambienthead66 1 year ago
This piece goes to prove why Brian Eno is the king of ambient music. A beuatiful piece of music and one that is truly inspirational. I love this kind of music and i have to say i am a fan of Brian Eno as well as other musicians that work in this sub-genre of electronic music such as Klaus Schulze, Robert Miles and others. My own music is influenced by this kind of music also, although if i had even a tenth of the tallent of Brian Eno, i'd be happy.
Kriss364 1 year ago
The most unique track on Music For Airports by far. Reminds me of Cramond beachside.....:)
BluDevil93 1 year ago
WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
paloverdemusicshack 1 year ago
I love this
Berniethomas68 1 year ago
Always makes me think of walking through a hushed and darkened public aquarium. Beautifully haunting stuff.
lilmisspino 1 year ago
great therapy music , if you like this give Robert Rich a listen to , the sleep concerts are his best , but thier all good,
wizzard1956 2 years ago
Love this song. Goes great with an afternoon sunset on the beach.
Jostoc 2 years ago
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it'snot music for airports 2/2..
pergamos6 2 years ago
Yes it definitely is. It's the final track on Music for Airports.
coffeeintheface 2 years ago
@coffeeintheface So Evening Star, too?
flagey12 1 year ago
One of my very favorites, by Eno (or anyone).
levyacinthe 2 years ago
Nice, but not as beautiful as the track "An Ending (Ascent)" from his Apollo album.
Jubal24 2 years ago 4
Oh man, funny you mention that -- I discovered that track about a month ago. My GOD. Easily one of Eno's most amazing tracks ever. I still think 2/2 beats it out, but An Ending (Ascent) is up there in the Top 5.
Whenever I listen to An Ending (Ascent), I imagine a room lit with tons of lit candles, like a church or a funeral wake or something. Eno's music conjures up amazing mental imagery like that, at least for me.
coffeeintheface 2 years ago 3
When i listen to this i imagine me naked in a room full of alsations licking strawberry ice cream off my nipples.
sheez123456789 2 years ago
@coffeeintheface The movie Traffic used the Ascent pitch perfect (pun intended) with it's last scene where Bencio del Toro is in the bleachers at the little league game that the DEA built for him in Tijuana...
Benicio:"You like baseball? We need lights for the parks, so kids can play at night. So they can play baseball. So they don't become burros para los malones. Everyone likes baseball. Everyone likes parks."
jovenmedia 1 year ago
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@coffeeintheface Brian Eno's "An Ending (Ascent)" was used pitch perfect (pun intended) in the movie ''Traffic", where Benicio is in the bleachers watching the kids play baseball:
Javier (Benecio del Toro): "You like baseball? We need lights for the parks, so kids can play at night. So they can play baseball. So they don’t become burros para los malones. Everyone likes baseball. Everyone likes parks."
jovenmedia 1 year ago
Headphones....hummmm...sounds good. Will try that...thank you.
PB4UEAT 2 years ago
SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL.....i DEAL WITH ALOT OF PAIN HEALTHWISE...AND WHEN I LISTEN TO THIS i FORGET ALL ABOUT MY PAIN AND MY PROBLEMS FOR THAT MATTER. tHANK YOU MR ENO. FROM THE HEART...THANK YOU.
PB4UEAT 2 years ago 31
Headphones help alot
BlueRoseRocketBand2 2 years ago 13
Love that analogue synth sound.. nothing like it :o)
Eno "composed" this piece by letting several tapes of synthesizer notes run together, each repeating after a different interval.
Anorakus 2 years ago
I have the biggest 80s analog synth fetish :-) And I absolutely love the synth here as well.
And if you're a big fan of 80s analog synths like me, nothing beats 80s Rush. Nothing.
coffeeintheface 2 years ago
ARP 2600 used on this piece apparently.
Anorakus 2 years ago
I never could get into Eno. Pink Floyd on the other hand....
alvagoldbook2 2 years ago
Funny, I could never get into a lot of Floyd, haha. So basically the opposite for me, because Eno I'm in love with. But the song Echoes and Shine On Parts 6-10 are two of the greatest songs I've ever heard.
This particular song is probably the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard -- seriously, this is being played at my funeral hopefully.
coffeeintheface 2 years ago
Echoes is my favorite Floyd song. I would check out some of Floyd's very early stuff when they did more things like Echoes. For instance, you should check out the Live from Pompeii version of Saucerful of Secrets and Atom Heart Mother.
alvagoldbook2 2 years ago
@coffeeintheface That's just it. One need not feel so compelled to 'get into' this music at all. Switch off and enjoy.
flagey12 1 year ago
It's also amazing to know that this was essentially an improvised piece, with the randomly selected intervals and all.
Since you like Eno, I also highly recommend Robert Fripp's solo soundscape works. All the albums are improvised, live, and incredible. Similar to Eno, but darker and more emotional. He has a track entitled "Sky" on his 1994 album "Radiophonics", that is a true toss-up with "2/2" for the title of the greatest ambient track ever.
coffeeintheface 2 years ago
This is my favorite piece on "Music For Airports". I recently made a continuous 76-minute loop of this piece by using Audacity to crossfade its end to its beginning six or seven times. I then burned it onto a CD and use it to play at night when I sleep. Very peaceful and beautiful. One of Eno's very best.
LouiePlaysDrums 2 years ago 2
I listen to it a lot in the dark; it's a very serene piece, that sounds like the auditory equivalent of an emotional closure. I'm strongly considering having it played at my funeral.
coffeeintheface 2 years ago
Thanks for the upload. A suitably cosmic tune and vid to prepare a lecture to...
AnotherCallousOne 3 years ago
Glad you enjoyed it. It's my favorite Eno piece and one of my favorite songs ever.
coffeeintheface 3 years ago
I love it too. Sort of reminds me of some of Copland's work
hlaakso 2 years ago