Brian Eno -- "2/2"

Stunning ambient masterpiece by Brian Eno. My favorite track from him.

From the album "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" (1978). Check out Brian Eno's discography, all of it is amazing.

Interview with Eno on his conception of ambient music and the idea for "Music for Airports": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykJg-vE3k-E

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[mildredsmittens]

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?

[coffeeintheface]

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.

[atomic161]

@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?

[coffeeintheface]

@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.

[Jubal24]

Nice, but not as beautiful as the track "An Ending (Ascent)" from his Apollo album.

[coffeeintheface]

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.

[PB4UEAT]

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.

[BlueRoseRocketBand2]

Headphones help alot

[MusicLoveSite]

Time to sleep... but it keeps me awake...

[szeal]

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.

[reliabilityinmind]

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

[baskieb1]

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

[MyAcedog]

Perfect!

[NeonFoxLetsPlays]

my favorite song off "Ambient 1" too.

[electrickithara]

I love this kind of music.

[BenBlauRecordings]

Nice ARP 2600 Sound :)