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1. Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)

It's no surprise that this 1978 recording topped the list. As the first of Eno's four Ambient albums, this record staked out a new frontier, declaring new land open for exploration. And it's lovely music too. Inspired by earlier tape-loop constructions such as "Discrete Music" and "The Heavenly Music Corporation," the four compositions on Airports are long, slow, cycling patterns of sparse piano and wordless voices. Loops of different lengths combine in unpredictable ways, creating lushly layered clouds of sound, punctuated by poignant silences. John Cage's ideas of indeterminacy loom large, as well as the tenets of minimalism, as the patterns recur but don't quite repeat, creating a flowing pool of sound that is consistently self-similar, yet never quite standing still. The first edition of the LP also presented Eno's manifesto on ambient music, the first formal use of the term. "An ambience is defined as an atmosphere or a surrounding influence: a tint" the notes read, continuing "ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular: it must be as ignorable as it is interesting." These compositions, identified only as1/1, 1/2, 2/1 and 2/2, denoting their positions on a vinyl LP, stand as almost ideal examples of this aesthetic, engaging yet aloof, simple without being simplistic. Although never a commercial success, the record has been popular among musicians, and perhaps by virtue of its status as the first record overtly titled "ambient," there's little doubt that Music for Airports deserves its position here as the most influential ambient album of all time.


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Op nr. 1 staat:....Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
 
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