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Ambient 1: Music for Airports

by Brian Eno

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All Time

of 455,353

4,829
1980's

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543
1989

of 7,682

250

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Overall Rating: 2.9109 Ambient 1: Music for Airports is ranked overall as 2.9109 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.0000 Ambient 1: Music for Airports has an avg. critic score of 3.0000 out of 4 stars

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All Music Guide

Four subtle, slowly evolving pieces grace Eno's first conscious effort at creating ambient music. The composer was in part striving to create music that approximated the effect of visual art. ...more

Rolling Stone

Brian Eno carefully distinguishes his art music, which is also his pop music, from hisgebrauchsmusik, or utilitarian undertakings.Ambient 1 Music for Airportsis as utilitarian as they come: it's conceived as background sound for airport lobbies, hopefully to replace the usual piped-in saccharine strings and smooth MOR frosting. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Four subtle, slowly evolving pieces grace Eno's first conscious effort at creating ambient music. The composer was in part striving to create music that approximated the effect of visual art. Like a fine painting, these evolving soundscapes don't require constant involvement on the part of the listener. ...more

PopMatters

Much Ado About Nothing Ambient 1: Music for Airports is a willfully perverse musical statement, one of unlimited contradictions and no small genius. Perverse? Well, it's an album that was released in 1978, but largely imagined at the whip centre of anarchy in the UK. ...more

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Slant Magazine

With his 1978 albumAmbient 1: Music for Airports, English musician/producer/conceptualist Brian Eno coined the terms "Discreet Music" and "Ambient" as "music designed to induce calm and space to think." The album, comprised of four dissimilar...read the complete review at Slant Magazine

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John Mcferrin Music Reviews

Brian's back in science project mode, and this time he's barely making any attempts to cover this up; what else can be said in view of his giving these tracks the purely informative titles of 1/1, 2/1, 1/2 and 2/2? This was apparently the...read the complete review at John Mcferrin Music Reviews

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