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i implore anyone listening to this record to forget "piano for study" ai-generated spotify playlists and yoga lesson background music, to leave aside their presumptions and step into the world Eno allows us to inhabit. this is a record of great textural beauty, warm yet removed, intimate yet stately, a synthesis of very acoustic sound - finger on piano key, vibrating vocal cord - with the mechanical grandeur of tape loops. Eno intended this to be functional music, which sounds like a dirty word these days, when you think about vibe-based playlists and AI smooth jazz, but this has none of the anesthetizing qualities associated with its most craven offshoots. it's music that heightens, not flattens. i find it invites me to lean into my emotions - if i feel calm while listening to Ambient 1, i might breathe that much more slowly. if i'm happy, i'll be attentive to the music's liquid warmth. if i'm sad, the feeling contained within might be near overwhelming. in this way, spending time with Eno's ambient is a meditative practice, a canvas upon which i can put my own feelings. this may be functional music, but its function is to amplify, reflect, engage. i can't overstate how different contemporary music would be without this series of records, and how glad i am that they exist, a gift to anyone really dedicated to the foundational processes of listening
The most relaxing thing the generator has given me so far.
Very interesting addition to this list. Who knew where ambient music came from. I did like the background noise as well as being rewarded when you listen more closely
Great background stuff which is an underrated thing
Probably the artiest music album to ever art. I'll give a quick rundown. 1/1: what you came for 2/1: creepy voices and shit idk don't feel that ambient to me I guess 1/2: combination of past two tracks and works well (of course) 2/2: arp 2600 synth solo perfectly majestic good stuff. giving a 4/5 only because 2/1 was 2spooky4me and not quite ambient >_<
Nope
Yo no puedo creer que hayan seleccionado esta verga como música que tenes que escuchar antes de morir! Es literalmente música de fondo para aeropuertos!
Strong 3
Just read the title man, the music was very calming but it doesn’t really belong on this 1001 albums list.
serene
Despite being a big Ambient fan and knowing this to be the most important ambient album, I actually haven't heard before this. It's definitely really well made ambient and most tracks beside the second one are quite interesting though it doesn't hit me emotionally like ambient should
5 stars for the concept, but it got old unsurprisingly quickly.
This is a good example that a record will have its time and place to be understood. I never liked it but while studying listening to it made perfect sense.
A profoundly peaceful and calming record that's always been a big hit for me. The first and final tracks especially are so beautifully crafted. Music doesn't always have to be catchy melodies or sharp guitar tones.
Pretty much whay I expected from the title. Slow, ambient, cinematic. It was like a score to my boring depressing life.
An great album to listen to while studying or working 3/5
Antras is Brajano Eno. Snooze fest
not my fav. too loud for background to me
Client feedback: "I'd want this album playing for my final breaths...so peaceful and transcendent"
chill. etheral. mellow. music?
1:1
I swear to God I must have listened to this boring nothingness a dozen times but I could never remember if I actually finished it or not. Influential and blah blah blah but it's literally an infinite loop of drone.
I hate airports.
Probably suffered from coming one day after Boards of Canada. Too much slow electronic for me. Need a shot in the arm. Not eno’s fault though. I like this just fine. It does make me think of an airport, I suppose.
banger
I needed some peace and quiet after listening to so much heavy and hard rock the past day so what better thing to put on then the OG ambient project, Ambient 1: Music For Airports. I have in fact listened to this album in an airport and I have to say it is very fitting for the polished colors and stoic environment. This album makes me think a lot, in ways I never really thought to, with my noise cancelling headphones it removes and replaces my hearing so I have to rely on everything else for whatever I decided to do. When I am in that state I look at things differently, from the homework I am completeing to the colors of the room I am inside of. I think of how small I am compared to my surroundings and how everyone else around me is reacting. This album makes me nothing more then a spectator with as much time in the world to simply observe. I should also mention how relaxing this album is, truly immersing you into a world of your own with just yourself being there. This album may not be anything more then a piano and some choir vocals but god damn it this album gets you in your feels, it can bring out any emotion it wants to and release it in the same breathe. This may go up or down in the future but nothing will change how beautiful this project is to my ears.
I wouldn't listen to this in an airport, probably, but it's extremely pleasant.
Spa music. Too repetitive for casual, purposeful listening.
mmmmmmmmm…. mmmhmmmm…. ssshhhhhhhhhhhh…. mmmmmmmmmmm…… sssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh
Hard to rate. I didn't notice it so I guess it succeeded as an ambient project. I like my ambient a bit more noticeable to I will keep it dead in the middle.
p421. 1978. 3 stars. Inoffensive and mildly pleasant background music. Not sure it is essential listening.
4 songs - 40min - just like the title says Ambient AF!
One of the absolute Best albums to listen to at work, or when you need to relax. This is totally enjoyable ambient music. A great experience. One of Eno's best!
Sitting and doing arts and crafts, this is great.
Wow. This was a lot of nothing.
⭐⭐ Svårt att ha en åsikt om det här. Är ju funktionsmusik som inte är meningen att man ska lyssna aktivt på utan att ligga i bakgrunden som en ljudmatta. För sitt syfta är det säkert jättebra men ser mig inte komma lyssna på det i framtiden, kanske när man har svårt att somna. Det skaver inte, det går att lyssna på och är inte dåligt men ska det vara med på denna listan, tveksamt. Kommer nog inte lyssna på det igen så det får bli en 2a.
On ne se cachera pas que ce n'est pas la partie la plus fameuse de son oeuvre.
Je respecte la démarche artistique, mais comme il a pas réussi à changer pour de vrai la background music dans les lieux publics pour ça je vais donner un 3 pour l'intention. Sur une échelle de techno (1) à blues (5), ça va là. 1/1 me fait un peu penser à la trame sonore de American Beauty. Et Frère Jacques. Aussi, j'appellerais plutôt ça Spa music. Ou Steve Reich copycat music.
On dirait qu’il faut pas comparer ça à tout autre musique. C’est fait exclusivement pour écouter dans le background. Et en ce sens ça réussi parfaitement. Ça tellement influencé de musique de ce type. Ça me fait penser un peu à la musique d’ambiance de Minecraft que je jouais sans les débuts. En plus le cover c’est une carte, et je suis un maphead.
If this was playing at an airport I would think I had died and my soul was leaving my body because of how ethereal this sounds. I've never been into the soundscape stuff but I can appreciate the effort to make something weird like this. Maybe the airport would be more tolerable if this was playing over the PA? It might even help with the drunk people at Chili's outside their gate.
Fairly inoffensive and bland. I know it says it’s for airports but I can’t imagine listening to this album anywhere. It’s like Brian Eno found the church organ setting on his keyboard and went… I could gently play chords with this!
If Brian Eno’s name wasn’t on this, would we see it as anything more than generic spa music?
Great to fill the space while working. Almost made me fall asleep
I don't know how to rate this. Do I enjoy it? No. Did it set out what it wanted to do? I guess? It's a bit like the Pontiac Aztek- It is extremely successful at doing what it set out to do, but no one wants it to do that.
It’s very ethereal and atmospheric, which is probably exactly what it was going for. Even then, it’s too ambient and out there for me making it a bit of a lull at times.
one of the most famous Leaves You Alone With Your Own Thoughts records of all time obviously invites a lot of ppl trying to explain or justify it without dipping into something so vulnerable..."highly influential masterpiece" this, "being highly influential doesnt automatically make it a masterpiece" that. to indulge in that for a little bit, i think innovative art is valuable not simply for its chronology but because it represents its inventions in their Purest form, existing as authentically motivated creative decisions rather than hopping into a conversation that has already started. its especially hard not to love ambient 1 from that angle...there was no template for what timbres or structures or compositional sensibility would achieve the goal being set out. p much everything here feels like a little Discovery, and i think that energy is not at all incidental to why its still so beloved and effective. micro-melodies and harmonies offer just enough ear-catching resolve to occasionally be Noticed and remind you youre still in the real world. humming noises feel intimate and human, while actual human voices feel like theyre not from this earth at all. above all, ambient music as conceptualized by eno is one of the fullest acknowledgements one can make that the vast majority of effect that art has on someone is subconscious. that kinda explains why its always been both very popular and polarizing...polarizing because many people do not want to believe that basic truth, popular because it Is the truth. more than almost anything else in the genre, including by eno himself, who did make a few more "interesting" permutations of this, its a very True album.
It does what it says on the tin. I guess as the first full ambient album, it's pretty cool but I would've happily read about it rather than listened to it.
Weird. Not even sure this was on while I was listening to it. Maybe that's the point.
Tried to check my flight a couple of times just to realize i'm still home
Not for me
This album has such a special place in my heart. It formed part of the soundtrack my wife and I chose to welcome our child in to the world - and to this day I can’t listen to it without expecting to hear the background noise of a hospital delivery suite. I have no other reason than this and my enduring love of Brian Eno and his many wonderful creations to give this a 5.
Pleasant, pensive, reflective. Call it music, not music, background music, ambience, whatever the fuck you think it is - it’s quite nice. And maybe the world would be a little less stressful if this was the background to our lives.
Ambient 1: Music for Airports, by Brian Eno (42:20, 4 tracks, debut Ambient,1979) Ambient (genre defining) I could see myself listening to this at work or going to sleep – great background music (which is exactly what is designed to be.) The definitive masterpiece of the ambient genre. Originally inspired by Eno's frustration with the "uninspired" background music at Cologne Bonn Airport, the record was designed to replace stressful "canned music" with sounds that induce calm and a "space to think". While not the first quiet music ever made, it was the first to be explicitly labeled "ambient". Reviewers often compare the music to abstract painting, where soundscapes "hang" in a room like visual art rather than following traditional melodic or rhythmic progression. The album consists of four long, untitled movements created using asynchronous tape loops that rarely repeat the same combination of notes. 1/1 Acoustic piano (Robert Wyatt) and soft synthesizer loops. Described as "luscious," "gorgeous," and the most relaxing track. 2/1 Wordless female vocal loops of varying lengths. Often called "heavenly" or "angelic," though some find it "ghostly". 1/2 A mix of piano and vocal loops. Noted for its human warmth and "cathedral-like" texture. 2/2 Purely synthesizer-driven (ARP 2600). Regarded as the most "space-ambient" track; luscious and slow. Ambient 1: Music for Airports is a studio album by the English musician Brian Eno. The first Eno album released under the label of ambient music, a genre intended to "induce calm and a space to think" while remaining "as ignorable as it is interesting". While not Eno's earliest entry in the style, it is credited with coining the term. The album consists of four compositions created by layering tape loops of differing lengths, and was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent of defusing the anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal as an alternative to "canned" Muzak and easy listening styles. The album was the first of four albums released in Eno's Ambient series, which concluded with 1982's Ambient 4: On Land. Rolling Stone credited Music for Airports with defining the ambient genre. In 2016, Pitchfork ranked it the greatest ambient album of all time. In 1975, Eno was hospitalized after a car accident. While he recovered at home, his friend Judy Nylon brought him an album of classical harp music and set it playing quietly against the sound of the rain against the window. The sound blended with the rain outside the room and, unable to get up and adjust the volume, Eno allowed it to create an ambience aligned with his fluctuating attention. Alongside this experience, his concept of ambient music would build upon composer Erik Satie's idea of "furniture music", music that is intended to blend into the ambient atmosphere of the room and "mingle with the sound of the knives and forks at dinner" rather than be directly focused upon. The album Discreet Music (1975), per Eno's own judgement, was his first foray into ambient music. After spending several hours waiting for a flight at Germany's Cologne Bonn Airport and becoming annoyed by its uninspired atmosphere, Eno conceived an album of music "designed for airports". He intended for the album to still function within various other situations. Ambient music was then a "relatively modest field", "more a concept than a genre", and mostly created against the context of dominant muzak practices. Eno's concept was distinct from elevator music and easy listening's "derivative" background noise approach, and was instead to be used as a means of creating space for thought. In the album's liner notes, Eno explained, “Whereas conventional background music is produced by stripping away all sense of doubt and uncertainty (and thus all genuine interest) from the music, Ambient Music retains these qualities. And whereas their intention is to `brighten' the environment by adding stimulus to it (thus supposedly alleviating the tedium of routine tasks and levelling out the natural ups and downs of the body rhythms) Ambient Music is intended to induce calm and a space to think. 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.” Eno later named the Ray Conniff Singers and the "Borgesian idea" of a self-generated "world in reverse" which is centered around music as inspirations during this period. [Eno] 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. They can hang in the background and add to the atmosphere of the room, yet the music also rewards close attention with a sonic richness absent in standard types of background or easy listening music. Eno began work on Music for Airports while producing the 1977 David Bowie album Low in Berlin. In the studio of the German producer Conny Plank, he recorded individual notes sung by three female German singers. After returning to England, Eno recorded Fred Firth on guitar and Robert Wyatt on piano. Eno turned the recordings into tape loops. Eno said the album was "conceived as deliberately austere and unemotional" and "was essentially made by machines". With regards to their instrumentation, dynamic range, timbre, harmony, tonality and texture, the tracks are confining and feature a "contained repertory of pitches, gestural shapes, and motivic content that lasts throughout its entirety". Variations of timbre are seen when comparing the tracks, such as the warm "1/1" contrasting with the cold and dark "1/2". They are without backing rhythms and instead irregular repetition. Eno has stated a connection to death. Not wanting it to be "all bright and cheerful", Eno, a self-proclaimed "nervous flyer", considered the feelings that arise from being at an airport, including the supposed mortality salience and hoped the album would bring solace: "Really, it's music to resign you to the possibility of death". John L. Waters described the album as a "logical progression from the work of the experimental and systems-based ‘serious’ musicians (John White, Gavin Bryars, Christopher Hobbs, Michael Parsons, Michael Nyman) that Eno recorded and championed for his label Obscure". "1/1", features piano loops performed in an arrhythmic manner – piano being the dominant instrument throughout the album. The track arose from two pianists improvising whereby neither could clearly hear the other, leading to separate yet complementary melodies being played. Various motifs, played in a fitful manner, are featured. Philosopher of art John Lysaker, while discussing the album's general sense of aimless direction, noted that "1/1" "holds together no better (and no worse) than a cloud". The music throughout is down-tempo, without "distinct melodic or harmonic development; no highs or lows". "1/1" is the only track to feature a melody. "2/1" and "1/2" make use of vocal loops; the former designed to have them fluctuate in synchrony. The disparate lengths of "2/1" were the result of each singer's differing capabilities. He modified the tape recordings offhandedly to loops, desiring "a silence at least twice as long as the sound" and "complicated rather than simple relationships". "And then I started all the loops running, and let them configure in the way they chose to configure". Music professor Victor Szabo described the track as "ghostly", writing that the "non-vibrato" tape loops are "uncannily lifeless": "Through such compositional techniques and affective-expressive codes, ‘2/1' intimates human absence more overtly than any other track". "2/2" was performed with an ARP 2600 synthesizer. Brian Eno described how this piece was recorded, “The second piece on the second side of Music for Airports was done with an ARP 2600. It's a beautiful sound, I think, and one that I couldn't have got from any other synthesizer that I know of. The thing that makes it so luscious is that it's slowed down, and it has three kinds of echo on it.” The first album of ambient music to become popular – and later recognized as the "first deliberately 'ambient' recording" – it was initially dismissed by critics, audiences and some of Eno's peers alike, bewildering some of the former. It only became more favored by the 1990s, having "entered the modern musical canon". Blandness was a very common critique in the initial reviews, a possible by-product of its unvarying and populist conception, wrote Szabo. In a 1979 review for Rolling Stone, Michael Bloom found Ambient 1 self-indulgent and lacking focus. "There's a good deal of high craftsmanship here," Bloom said. "But to find it, you've got to thwart the music's intent by concentrating." In another contemporary review for The Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau wrote that "these four swatches of modestly 'ambient' minimalism have real charms as general-purpose calmatives. But I must also report that they've fared unevenly against specific backgrounds." Alan Niester categorized the album as alien, calling it "background grunge" that was best suited for "dish-doing [and] bed-making". AllMusic reviewer Linda Kohanov stated that "like a fine painting, these evolving soundscapes don't require constant involvement on the part of the listener [...] yet the music also rewards close attention with a sonic richness absent in standard types of background or easy listening music." Pitchfork's Grayson Haver Currin wrote that "to hear Music for Airports as more than a background balm, these four tracks remain wondrous and transformative, able to rearrange the air in a room." Chuck Eddy from Spin later named it the fourth most essential ambient album. J. D. Considine wrote in The Rolling Stone Album Guide that the record defined the ambient aesthetic while providing a name for the genre. Jon Caramanica called it the best of Eno's work which shortly followed Roxy Music. The album has been installed and performed in at least five airports; it has been met with resistance from some travelers and workers, who deem it disruptive. Clinics and hospitals have used the albums to soothe patients. Track listing 1. "1/1" (Acoustic and electric piano; synthesizer.) 16:30 2. "2/1" (Vocals; synthesizer.) 8:20 3. "1/2" (Vocals; acoustic piano.) 11:30 4. "2/2" (Synthesizer only. Lasts 9:38 in the "Working Backwards" box edition (1983) and on the CD.) Eno 6:00 The track labelling refers to the album's first release (1978) as an LP, and so the first track means "first track, first side", and so on. The CD pressing adds 30 seconds of silence after every track, including "2/2". The album's back cover features four abstract graphic notation images, one for each track, representing their structure and instrumentation. Personnel Brian Eno – synthesizer, electric piano, vocals Christa Fast – vocals ("2/1", "1/2") Christine Gomez – vocals ("2/1", "1/2") Inge Zeininger – vocals ("2/1", "1/2") Robert Wyatt – acoustic piano ("1/1", "1/2") Recording Brian Eno – producer, engineer Dave Hutchins – engineer ("2/1", "1/2") Conny Plank – engineer ("2/2"), Rhett Davies – engineer ("1/1") Brian Eno – cover art See also Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror Ambient 3: Day of Radiance Ambient 4: On Land Brian Eno Bio: Born Brian Peter George Eno 1948 (age 77) Melton, Suffolk, England Musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, sound designer, author and political activist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. A self-described "non-musician", Eno has helped introduce unconventional concepts and approaches to contemporary music. He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures. In 2019, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music. Eno studied painting and experimental music at the art school of Ipswich Civic College in the mid-1960s, and then at Winchester School of Art. He joined the glam rock group Roxy Music as its synthesizer player in 1971 and recorded two albums with them before departing in 1973. He then released solo albums, beginning with the rock-oriented Here Come the Warm Jets (1974), and explored minimal music on the influential recordings Discreet Music (1975) and Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978), with the latter coining the term "ambient music". Alongside his solo work, Eno collaborated frequently with other musicians in the 1970s, including Robert Wyatt, Robert Fripp (mainly as part of the Fripp & Eno collective), Harmonia, Cluster, Harold Budd, David Bowie, John Cale and David Byrne. He also established himself as a sought-after producer, working on albums by Jon Hassell, Laraaji, Byrne's Talking Heads, Ultravox, and Devo, as well as the no wave compilation No New York (1978). In subsequent decades, Eno continued to record solo albums and produce for other artists, including U2, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel, Daniel Lanois, Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones, Slowdive, Karl Hyde of Underworld, James, Kevin Shields, and Damon Albarn. Dating back to his time as a student, Eno has also worked in other media, including sound installations, film and writing. In the mid-1970s, he co-developed Oblique Strategies, a pack of cards featuring aphorisms intended to spur creative thinking. From the 1970s onwards, his installations have included the sails of the Sydney Opera House in 2009 and the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in 2016. An advocate of a range of humanitarian causes, Eno writes on a variety of subjects and is a founding member of the Long Now Foundation. His modern political activism has also included awareness of the conditions in the Gaza Strip before and during the Gaza war and genocide, climate crisis awareness, opposing the Conservative Party, opposing Brexit, and advocating for freedom for Julian Assange. In September 2025, he signed an open pledge with Film Workers for Palestine pledging not to work with Israeli film institutions "that are implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people." Early life His grandfather was a multi-instrumentalist who played the saxophone and bassoon whilst he built and repaired pianos and church organs. I like melancholy and have never found it to be the same thing as moroseness or sadness. I've always enjoyed being melancholy, perhaps because that mood is very much a feature of the environment where I grew up. It's a very bleak place and most visitors find it quite miserable. I don't think it's miserable but it's definitely a sort of lost place in a lost time – nothing has changed in this part of England for many hundreds of years,” Brian Eno. In 1969, after separating from his wife, Eno moved to London, where his professional music career began. Eno's first appearance on a commercially released recording is the Deutsche Grammophon edition of The Great Learning (1971) by Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra, which features Eno as one of the voices on the track "Paragraph 7". At one point, Eno had to earn money as paste-up assistant for the advertisement section of a local paper for three months. He quit and became an electronics dealer by buying old speakers and making new cabinets for them before selling them to friends. In 1971, Eno co-formed the glam rock band Roxy Music following a chance meeting with saxophonist Andy Mackay. Eno later said: "If I'd walked ten yards further on the platform, or missed that train, or been in the next carriage, I probably would have been an art teacher now". Eno played on their first two albums, Roxy Music (1972) and For Your Pleasure (1973), on which he is credited mononymously as "Eno". On the records, Eno was noted as playing the EMS VCS 3 synthesizer, whilst also being credited for tape effects, backing vocals, and production. Initially, Eno did not appear on stage at their live shows, but operated the group's mixing desk at the center of the concert venue where he had a microphone to sing backup vocals. After the group secured a record deal, Eno joined them on stage playing the synthesizer and became known for his flamboyant, androgynous costumes and makeup, partly stealing the spotlight from lead singer Bryan Ferry. After the tour in support of For Your Pleasure ended in mid-1973, Eno quit the band, citing disagreements with Ferry. Almost immediately after his exit from Roxy Music, Eno embarked on his solo career. In 1973, he released (No Pussyfooting), a collaboration with King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp. The album had been worked on for over a year, particularly with the use of tape looping and delay systems, which would later be known as "Frippertronics". The record is hailed as being groundbreaking for future developments in drone and what would later be termed ambient music. Eno's first solo studio album, Here Come the Warm Jets, was recorded the same year and released in February 1974. The album notably features Fripp's guitar playing on several songs. In March 1974, he released the single "Seven Deadly Finns" with the B-side "Later On". Between 1974 and 1975, Eno began to write new material for a third solo studio album. Within this time, in January 1975, Eno was hit by a taxi cab while crossing the street and spent several weeks recuperating and room-ridden at home. After she had left, he put on the record and lay down. He then realized that he had set the amplifier to a very low volume, and one channel of the stereo was not working, but he lacked the energy to get up and correct it. Immediately following a full recovery, he began to experiment with several instruments and tools in Island Studios (now known as Basing Street Studios). Between July and August 1975, he had recorded what would become Another Green World. The album was released on 14 November 1975 but did not chart in either the United Kingdom or the United States. The album predominantly featured instrumental tracks, with notable fragments of minimalism and avant-garde tensing throughout the 40 minute record. Those that had featured vocals, such as "Everything Merges With The Night", "St. Elmo's Fire" and "Golden Hours" were met with praise. The track "Zawinul / Lava" is a homage and tribute to Austrian jazz fusion keyboardist and composer Joe Zawinul. The only song to have any single release was "I'll Come Running", which became the B-side to Eno's cover of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)". The album has been recognized by critics as a "universally acknowledged masterpiece" and "breathtakingly ahead of its time". The acclaimed music journalist Robert Christgau rated the album as an "A+", stating that it was "the aural equivalent of a park on the Moon; oneness with nature under conditions of artificial gravity". In 1975 Eno released the minimalist-electronic record Discreet Music (1975), created with an elaborate tape-delay methodology which he diagrammed on the back cover of the LP. Considered to be a landmark of the ambient music genre and the first record of Eno's to feature his full name, the album only features four tracks, one of which is the 30-minute long "Discreet Music", which features synthesized tape delays by Eno on an echo configuration. The album was remarked as a favorite record of David Bowie and, as a result of the record and its recognition to Bowie, it had led to his collaboration with Eno on Bowie's Berlin Trilogy. After Discreet Music Eno released two other experimental-electronic albums: the Fripp-collaborated Evening Star (1975) and the Roedelius-Moebius collaborated Cluster & Eno (1977). In December 1977 he released Before and After Science, which featured electronic and artistic rock compositions with vocals. In 1977 Eno assisted David Bowie and Tony Visconti for Bowie's album Low. It was during these sessions that he began work on his next solo project, released in 1978 as the first of his Ambient series, Ambient 1: Music for Airports. He coined the term "ambient music", which is designed to modify the listener's perception of the surrounding environment. In the liner notes accompanying the record, he wrote: "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." The following records after the release of Ambient 1 and the subsequent series inclusions were The Plateaux of Mirror (Ambient 2) featuring Harold Budd, Day of Radiance (Ambient 3) with American composer Laraaji, and On Land (Ambient 4), a solo record. In 1983, Eno collaborated with his brother, Roger, and accomplice and friend Daniel Lanois, on what would be Brian Eno's ninth full-length album Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. In September 1992, Eno released Nerve Net, an album utilizing heavily syncopated rhythms with contributions from several former collaborators including Fripp, Benmont Tench, Robert Quine and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin fame. During the 1990s, Eno worked increasingly with self-generating musical systems, the results of which he called generative music. This allows the listener to hear music that slowly unfolds in almost infinite non-repeating combinations of sound. In one instance of generative music, Eno calculated that it would take almost 10,000 years to hear the entire possibilities of one individual piece. Eno achieves this through the blending of several independent musical tracks of varying length. Each track features different musical elements and in some cases, silence. When each individual track concludes, it starts again re-configuring differently with the other tracks. He has presented this music in his own art and sound installations and those in collaboration with other artists, including I Dormienti (The Sleepers), Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace, and Music for Civic Recovery Centre. In 1993, Eno worked with the Manchester rock band James to produce two albums, Laid and Wah Wah. Laid was met with notable critical and commercial success both in the UK and the United States after its release in 1993. Wah Wah, in comparison, received a more lukewarm response after its release in 1994. One of Eno's better-known collaborations was with the members of U2, Luciano Pavarotti and several other artists in a group called Passengers. They produced the 1995 album Original Soundtracks 1, which reached No. 76 on the US Billboard charts and No. 12 in the UK Albums Chart. It featured a single, "Miss Sarajevo", which reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2004, Fripp and Eno recorded another ambient music collaboration album, The Equatorial Stars. In early 2006, Eno collaborated with David Byrne again, for the reissue of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in celebration of the influential album's 25th anniversary. Eight previously unreleased tracks recorded during the initial sessions in 1980/81, were added to the album. In late 2006, Eno released 77 Million Paintings, a program of generative video and music specifically for home computers. As its title suggests, there is a possible combination of 77 million paintings where the viewer will see different combinations of video slides prepared by Eno each time the program is launched. Likewise, the accompanying music is generated by the program so that it's almost certain the listener will never hear the same arrangement twice. The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition mobile phone, released in late 2006, features exclusive ringtones and sounds composed by Eno. Although he was previously uninterested in composing ringtones due to the limited sound palette of monophonic ringtones, phones at this point primarily used audio files. In 2008, he released Everything That Happens Will Happen Today with David Byrne, designed the sound for the video game Spore. In March 2020, Eno and his brother, Roger Eno, released their collaborative album Mixing Colours. From the beginning of his solo career in 1973, Eno was in demand as a record producer. The first album with Eno credited as producer was Lucky Leif and the Longships by Robert Calvert. Eno's lengthy string of producer credits includes albums for Talking Heads, U2, Devo, Ultravox and James. He also produced part of the 1993 album When I Was a Boy by Jane Siberry. He won the best producer award at the 1994 and 1996 BRIT Awards. Eno has contributed to recordings by artists as varied as Nico, Robert Calvert, Genesis, David Bowie, and Zvuki Mu, in various capacities such as use of his studio and electronic treatments, vocals, guitar, bass guitar, and under a mononymous stage name (Eno). In 1984, he (amongst others) composed and performed the "Prophecy Theme" for the David Lynch film Dune; the rest of the soundtrack was composed and performed by the group Toto. Eno produced performance artist Laurie Anderson's Bright Red album, and also composed for it. Eno has spoken of an early and ongoing interest in exploring light in a similar way to his work with sound. He started experimenting with the medium of video in 1978. Eno describes the first video camera he received, which would initially become his main tool for creating ambient video and light installations: Music for Airports, at least one of the pieces on there, is structurally very, very simple. There are sung notes, sung by three women and myself. One of the notes repeats every 23 1/2 seconds. It is in fact a long [recorded tape] loop running around a series of tubular aluminum chairs in Conny Plank's studio. The next lowest loop repeats every 25 7/8 seconds or something like that. The third one every 29 15/16 seconds or something. What I mean is they all repeat in cycles that are called incommensurable – they are not likely to come back into sync again. So this is the piece moving along in time. Your experience of the piece of course is a moment in time, there. So as the piece progresses, what you hear are the various clusterings and configurations of these six basic elements. The basic elements in that particular piece never change. They stay the same. But the piece does appear to have quite a lot of variety. In fact it's about eight minutes long on that record, but I did have a thirty minute version which I would bore friends who would listen to it. The thing about pieces like this of course is that they are actually of almost infinite length if the numbers involved are complex enough. They simply don't ever re-configure in the same way again. This is music for free in a sense. The considerations that are important, then, become questions of how the system works and most important of all what you feed into the system. The list below consists of albums, soundtracks and downloadable files that contain excerpts from some of Eno's generative music explorations:[citation needed] 1970 – Berlin Horse [Film Short] 1975 – Discreet Music 1975 – Evening Star (Fripp & Eno) 1978 – Ambient 1: Music for Airports 1981 – Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan [Installation Video] 1982 – Ambient 4: On Land 1983 – Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (Eno, Lanois & R Eno) 1983 – Music for Films II (Eno, Lanois & R Eno) [exclusive to Working Backwards Box Set] 1984 – Thursday Afternoon [Installation Video] 1985 – Thursday Afternoon 1988 – Music for Films III (Various Artists) 1989 – Textures (Eno, Lanois & R Eno) 1992 – The Shutov Assembly 1993 – Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV) 1994 – Glitterbug [Original Soundtrack] 1996 – Neverwhere [BBC TV Mini-Series Soundtrack] 1997 – Contra 1.2 1997 – Lightness 1998 – Music for Prague 1999 – I Dormienti 1999 – Kite Stories 2000 – Music for Civic Recovery Centre 2001 – Compact Forest Proposal 2003 – Curiosities – Volume I 2004 – Curiosities – Volume II 2012 – Lux 2013 – CAM [Web – the book Brian Eno: Visual Music includes a download code] 2014 – The Shutov Bonus Material [Shutov Assembly reissue bonus CD] 2014 – New Space Music [Neroli reissue bonus CD] 2016 – The Ship 2016 – Reflection 2017 – Sisters [Web Download] 2018 – Music for Installations [Box Set][113] 2023 – Secret Life (with Fred Again)[114] Eno is frequently referred to as one of popular music's most influential artists.[176] Producer and film composer Jon Brion has said: "I think he's the most influential artist since the Beatles."[177] Critic Jason Ankeny at AllMusic argues that Eno "forever altered the ways in which music is approached, composed, performed, and perceived, and everything from punk to techno to new age bears his unmistakable influence."[1] Eno has spread his techniques and theories primarily through his production; his distinctive style informed projects in which he has been involved, including Bowie's "Berlin Trilogy" (helping to popularize minimalism) and the albums he produced for Talking Heads (incorporating, on Eno's advice, African music and polyrhythms), Devo, and other groups. Eno's first collaboration with David Byrne, 1981's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, utilized sampling techniques and broke ground by incorporating world music into popular Western music forms.[178][179] Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies have been used by many bands, and Eno's production style has proven influential in several general respects: "his recording techniques have helped change the way that modern musicians;– particularly electronic musicians;– view the studio. No longer is it just a passive medium through which they communicate their ideas but itself a new instrument with seemingly endless possibilities."[180] According to Vinyl Me, Please writer Jack Riedy, Eno's peak as an artist coincided with the album era – a period in popular music during which the album surpassed the single as the dominant recorded-music format – "and Eno took full advantage of the format to pursue all his musical ideas on wax." His groundbreaking work in electronic music has been said to have brought widespread attention to and innovations in the role of electronic technology in recording. Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright said he "often eulogized" Eno's abilities. Eno's "unconventional studio predilections", in common with those of Peter Gabriel, were an influence on the recording of "In the Air Tonight", the single which launched the solo career of Eno's former drummer Phil Collins. Both Half Man Half Biscuit (in the song "Eno Collaboration" on the EP of the same name) and MGMT have written songs about Eno. LCD Soundsystem has frequently cited Eno as a key influence. The Icelandic singer Björk also credited Eno as a major influence. Eno has married twice. In March 1967, at the age of 18, Eno married Sarah Grenville. The couple had a daughter, Hannah Louise (b. 1967), before their divorce in the 1980s. In 1988, Eno married his then-manager Anthea Norman-Taylor. They have two daughters, Irial Violet (b. 1990) and Darla Joy (b. 1991).[193][194] Per a May 2020 interview with Michael Bonner of Uncut referencing his current girlfriend, Eno and Norman-Taylor may have separated or divorced at an unspecified juncture. Longtime friend Ray Hearn currently serves as Eno's manager. Raised Catholic, Eno has referred to himself as "kind of an evangelical atheist" but has also professed an interest in religion. In 2006, Eno was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter calling for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, and in January 2009, he spoke out against Israel's military action on the Gaza Strip by writing an opinion for CounterPunch and participating in a large-scale protest in London. In 2014, Eno again protested publicly against what he called a "one-sided exercise in ethnic cleansing" and a "war [with] no moral justification," in reference to the 2014 military operation of Israel into Gaza. He was also a co-signatory, along with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker and others, to a letter published in The Guardian that labelled the conflict as an "inhumane and illegal act of military aggression" and called for "a comprehensive and legally binding military embargo on Israel, similar to that imposed on South Africa during apartheid." Eno was appointed President of Stop the War Coalition in 2017. Solo studio albums Here Come the Warm Jets (Island, 1974) Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Island, 1974) Another Green World (Island, 1975) Discreet Music (Obscure, 1975) Before and After Science (Polydor, 1977) Ambient 1: Music for Airports (Polydor, 1978) Music for Films (Polydor, 1978) Ambient 4: On Land (E.G., 1982) Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (E.G., 1983) Thursday Afternoon (E.G., 1985) Nerve Net (Opal/All Saints, 1992) The Shutov Assembly (Opal/All Saints, 1992) Neroli (Opal/All Saints, 1993) Headcandy (BMG, 1994) The Drop (All Saints, 1997) Another Day on Earth (Hannibal, 2005) Lux (Warp, 2012) The Ship (Warp, 2016) Reflection (Warp, 2017) ForeverAndEverNoMore (Verve/UMC, 2022) Aurum (Opal, 2025)
I see the name Brian Eno and I'm pretty excited! For a moment. What I really want to know is, why all the positive reviews for this? I'm glad others are benefiting where I am simply skipping out.
All things came together today as I travelled via airports and airplanes today. I love Brian Eno, but this album proved that he can create ambient music as well as any sound library. Unremarkable and naturally truly ambient.
I unabashedly love this album. I discovered it at a really rough point in my professional career -- so having a go-to album where I could just literally let my mind go and drift away in the loops was a godsend. Is it an exciting album? No. Is it a perfect album? Yes.
This was quite nice to listen to while working. But it’s still elevator music…
Very good, important history.
This is great stuff, provided you start your journey into ambient with this album. If you instead start with all the modern ones, this might seem pretty basic - because this is the one that inspired them all. But it's still a great listę on a Łazy Saturday afternoon.
The ambient album that revolutionized the genre and one of those instances where I think the most influential example is not the best. In fact, I think "Ambient 4: On Land" is way better than this one, and "Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960" is one of my favourite ambient tracks ever. About this record, it is a compilation of 4 very minimalist and ethereal pieces that only consists in the use of looped melodies with a lot of silence in between and without any sense of rhythm. While this might sound very boring, what theses song portray is a very calm and relaxing feeling, which makes the project an immersive experience, and even encourages the listener to have this as background. The first one is the lengthiest cut, clocking at around 17 minutes, and it is basically a loop of a beautiful piano melody to which they add some spontaneous ethereal textures that come and go. The next composition uses vocal loops instead of piano and as a result, it loses strength. While still relaxing, the voices don't work as well as the piano. The third track is another beautiful piece that combines the two previous by mixing the same vocal loops as the second piece and a new piano loop that has a sad tone to it. Finally, the last cut do things different, using a synth instead of piano and vocals. Regardless of being more immersive than the second and a strong song, I don't find it as beautiful or hypnotic as the first and third ones. Ultimately, this is an incredibly influential and great project. I may not find it to be the most captivating amibient album, but still a great and calm experience.
Way ahead of its time
Like flying in an empty sky.
Genuinely forgot how good this is
pretty perfect
its ambient music. quite good ambient music but it is still at the end of the day ambient music
Interesting concepto record, and endless track.
I like some ambient music but this was a bit too lifeless. Made all the worse by Ascent (from 28 days later) coming on the radio straight after as a ‘here’s what you could have been listening to’ gotcha
I don’t ever really have much to say about ambient music, so instead of a review I’m going to assign an airport I’ve been to to each song 1/1 - Chicago O’Hare 2/1 - Philadelphia 1/2 - Tampa 2/2 - Minneapolis
Title is very accurate. I get it, I just hate it. Stressed me out way more than ambient music probably should.
I really did not enjoy this on its own but I will give credit where it is due. It would fit great on a sleepy time playlist or overtop of a movie scene. It also sounds kind of futuristic today which means in 1978 it probably blew peoples minds. The production is also very good. Hard to call it an album though when there are no real songs, just soundscapes for 48 minutes.
# Album Name: Ambient 1-Music For Airports # Artist: Brian Eno # Rating: 3/5 # Comments: Literally music you could like to whilst in a airport/elevator/shopping centre etc # Top Tunes: # Would I listen to it again? Maybe background music.
Gentle ambient
The title is already tedious. Let me reiterate what absolute pompous douchebags music critics are, a bunch of assholes sniffing each other's farts. This has no place in this list. 30 million people have listened to the first two tracks. I have to assume half of them were involved with this dumbass book and the other half had this in a Spotify "Ambient Music to Sleep To" playlist. I still might like it more than anything he did with Roxy Music. Four songs, 48 minutes, that is an awful ratio. This would be a fine soundtrack to a movie about an airport. And I mean literally about an airport, just a long, slow tracking shot that works it's way from like a drinking fountain inside a terminal to pan out to the show the entire airport facility over 17 minutes. And it closes with a full minute of silence. There's nothing awful about the first song, it just has no place on this list. And now nine minutes of vocals. This is the soundtrack to a movie about lonliness. I can confidently say I will never listen to another Brian Eno solo album after I'm done with this list. This is Tubular Bells all over again. It started as an art project! This isn't even intended to be played like this. But, it did define the ambient genre, so let's put it on this list! All the songs are going to end with an extended period of silence...because they're an art project, not an album.
If this wasn't by Brian Eno, it wouldn't have been included. So, taking the name off the cover, what we have here is elevator music. And not particularly good elevator music. There was an album from Nitin Sawhney in here that was actually good, creative grocery store music. I gave it a 2*. Ambient 1 is neither good nor creative. Sigh. I'm trying to be stingier with my 1* ratings than 5* ratings, but absolutely no one needs to hear this before they die.
1.5
I have nothing against this type of music; I simply agree with many others—why this is on the list is a mystery to me! Background music, by definition, is the type of music that stays, well, in the background! There's no need to bring it to the forefront :-D
Love this album, concept and all. Reminds me of jerkcurb or vice versa
So ambient I often forgot it was playing. Peaceful.
Foundational ambient album, a criminally underrated genre. Brilliant, calming, ethereal but at the same time, completely ignorable (Eno’s own words, I believe). 4.5/5
Para momentos que solo necesitas conectar con vos misma este álbum musicaliza muy bien esa situación
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I never really know what to do with ambient like this. Eno himself called it “ignorable but interesting“ and that is my experience. I like having this on in the background but I don’t really feel much or find it essential.
Wonderfully calming.
Why would this album be on a list of music I need to listen to? It was useless elevator music!
2 - I don't mind ambient music, but I don't necessarily think I needed to hear this album before I die.
The album cover deliberately looks like a printing error, how delightfully Eno! The music is exactly what the title implies: soothing background music to hopefully take one's stress level down a notch, not at all intended for the active listening involved in doing this 1001 albums thing. Luckily for our pal Brian, I'm happy to rate music based on how well it fills a niche, not just how well it holds up as active listening. Would I put this on when I'm in the mood for music? No. When I'm just trying to quietly coexist with my cats and maybe read a book? That's the time for this album. Fantastic if applied correctly.
Extraordinarily dull
2.9 Got a bit to much in to the spa music category for me. It did however give you a certain space to think, about the music, or whatever else that was going through my mind. I found that pretty interesting. I think Im going to have to a deep Eno dive at some point
Alright, a serene 48 minutes of piano doodling and ambient, airy, atmospheric effects flowing through the space. 48 minutes of piano doodling. For 48 minutes. Doodling, on a piano. I can imagine many of the other bands Mr. Eno produced had to politely suggest that his piano doodling was nice, and that they thought it would be good dial it down just a smidge in their own recordings.
i didn’t know airport music could be depressing
8.5 / 10
Yep. Ambient. I would have been a neutral listener at the airport.
1,3/5
God some of the reviews that are questioning its inclusion because it’s merely background music kinda irritates me. Like, if you don’t like it, that’s one thing. No album is for everyone. But this is exactly the type of album that should be included in a good 1001 list. I know that a lot of people were complaining about the minimalism of this record but like, that’s the point. Ignoring that aspect of music would be incredibly foolish because there are people who think that this is a great album like myself.
I see why people dislike it but to me this is a really great record to listen to. Yes, it's a slow instrumental effort where not much is going on, but it somehow manages to never be boring.
Torn. It's interesting and up my alley, but I'm not sure it's 1001A interesting.
I don’t generally like piano led ambient music, after a bit it hammers on my eardrums, but this was softer and hypnotic. Very good to drift off to.
I really liked this, it was exactly the sort of vibe you want at 3:00 in the morning. I still sort of expect minimalism with ambience, but there were some really nice piano lines in here, it was just a very comforting listen. It made me want to put it on again.
"Outstanding." - Me. "Brian Eno's finest work." -Also me. "A no skip album." - Also me, again. No truly, I understand the hate surrounding this. Atmospheric and ambient music is always a tough pill to swallow. But through my avid gaming soundtrack consumption and time online with vaporwave this album refreshed my soul. A wild switch from the artsy stuff he tried to pull off they didn't resonate with me. I'll accept this as one of life's mysteries i may never fully grasp. Cool albo Beno.
It's a lovely album but I had trouble singing along
I do think there's better ambient and I would reject a lot of the historical significance (there was plenty of ambient before this including stuff made by the man himself) but this does still have a lot of merit as a standalone project
ladron
dude why... like its cool for what it is, but on a list of "best albums" why is this on here...
Relaxing, ambient. Should have listened in the evening with low light and a quick hit. Instead, I was in the middle of my workday.
This is a great chill out album. Very much time and place music.
This hit the right spot right when I needed it. It was perfect for calming my mind and clearing my head. Would I listen to it again.? absolutely in the setting I was in right now. For my normal rating, I would ordinarily give this a 3 because it ok but nothing special, but considering when this was released in 1978 I find it remarkable that he produced this almost 50 years ago on the back end of Disco and in the middle of the punk and new wave movement. This remarkable fact alone makes me want to give this a 4. So my rating is 3.5 upgraded to a 4.
Minecraft
The title and blurb suggested this might be the perfect solution to help my wife pass more peacefully through international travel hubs. The suggestion of this solution, combined with her dislike for ambient music in general, did not receive a warm reception. I was unable to really immerse myself in this album as may have been necessary but found it pleasant enough as a backing track.
Has my heart
Utter bliss.
I love Brian Eno (mostly for the U2 sound), and I hate airports. So this was perfect. I know it sounds like a lot of stuff that's available on calming apps or NPR after 10 pm in smaller markets now, but I do actually appreciate the trailblazing aspect of this, which I don't always do when it comes to historically important but not currently interesting albums on this list. Ambient on Brian Eno!
Wow, so airporty! Love you Brian you always know what to do. I listened to this while reading a poetry book and all of a sudden Brian Eno's name is written there?? Biggest jumpscare of my life. But man, a Brian Eno poem does go hard.
There is only one way to summarize this: “If you see something, say something.” I’m glad I waited to listen to this sitting at my gate with a black iced coffee early in the morning. This is situationally perfect.
Perfect reading music
Ik begrijp dat je albums als deze niet kan en mag beoordelen in losse nummers, maar zo is mijn brein nou eenmaal geconditioneerd. Je zit toch per passage te wachten op een grand finale, ook al weet je dat ambient vaak minimalistisch blijft. Maar een episch Eno meesterwerk als 'The Big Ship' doet je toch hopen op een uitspatting. Helaas is dit echt té abstract voor mijn smaak, en moet ik ondanks mijn voorliefde voor Brian toch concluderen dat hij er niet heel mild vanaf komt. Tuurlijk is het hypnotisch mooi bij vlagen, maar het waait mij iets te makkelijk voorbij zonder stil te staan bij die magie. 5,5/10
De tonen en geluiden op Ambient 1 klinken natuurlijk allemaal heel mooi. Maar zonder opbouw, break of plot is het wel gewoon echt oersaai. Sorry Brian. Je hebt genoeg andere mooie dingen gemaakt. 5/10
As ignorable as it is interesting. Nope. This is dumb. This isn’t music you need to listen to. This is some grad students homework that he spent ten minutes on before turning it in. I get that he pioneered the ambient genre, but he shouldn't have been in the room to begin with.
Hmmm…no thanks.
This is hard to rate, after all, it is just background music and that's is purpose 🤣. I grant you that it relaxing and at times barely noticeable 🤷🏻. As background music is concerned it does the job, but would I normally choose to this type of music?
ambient, minimalistisch, 1978 -> 1
"Some critics called it boring, missing the point by a mile" (quoting the book)
Album incroyable pour de la relaxation, de la méditation ou pour mettre de la musique de fond pour le travail. Un petit moment de douceur dans ce monde de brute. Presque un poil curieux que ce soit de la musique pour aéroport. Très bonne musique ambiant, mauvaise musique d'aéroport. Note : 3 A réécouter : Oui
made me cry first time i listened to it. wasnt a great idea was already having a mental breakdown but its just that beautiful.
I've been meaning to listen to this album for a while as I was curious and never really got around to it, but it seems like today is the day! The music is beautiful and I can see it fitting a variety of moods; day, night, busy, relaxation, going to sleep... Never a distraction, and always a choice to actually pay attention. However, it's very hard to rate ambient music, especially in a project like this. Yes, it's quite pleasant, so I think I can rule out giving this a bad rating. But at the same time, it's not really captivating. Not because it's not good music; on the contrary, it's because it's good ambient music, and ambient music is not meant to be distracting. It shouldn't catch your attention and take your focus away from something else unless you actively choose to focus on the music. In the words of Brian Eno himself, "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." How can you compare it then to most other albums on the list? Usually they try to catch your attention or demand an attentive listen to be fully appreciated. Still, the ambient genre is music that must exist. Not just for artistic expression, but also because ignorable music is necessary in the world. I often think that the most important qualities in a piece of music are originality, quality and purpose. The purpose is tied to the context and the reaction/use that the creator wants or expects for their piece. I'd say purpose is the aspect in which ambient music shines most. So even if it's hardly comparable with basically most other genres, ambient music can still be labeled as "good". What I do know for sure is that this album deserves to be on the list, as it's one of the most important ones (if not THE most important) in history of ambient music, and a truly innovative idea. Maybe not the first ambient record, but I bet it had its huge roll in laying the foundation of what ambient music should be. I can say, though, that I will be adding this album to my regular rotation of music for studying/work.
I didnt get a chance to listen
-good vibes -really helps calm me when I’m stressed -probably would be good for an airport -I enjoyed this as background music
If they had just started playing this in airports in 1978 we would be living in a utopia by now
мені цей альбом звучить не як мкзика для аеропортів, а як саундтрек до фільмів аватар
Just like the title says.
I feel bad for having a go at an album for basically doing what it says on the tin, but this is boring, bland background music. It is absolutely not bad, or offensive, but it is just magnolia wallpaper.
what kind of airport this guy is going? Why do I have to listen this before I die? Today´s bird: A pidgeon, the dirty kind, and maybe dead
Finally found an Eno (solo) album I like, really enjoyed it more than I expected
This is without a doubt some ambient music. I put it on in the background and had listened to about 30 minutes before I even noticed. It reminds me of music you would hear at a video game or movie main menu or on that sci-fi themed amusement park ride while you wait to get on. If you're looking for background music that defines background music, you will find it here. Excellent ambient music. background.
Cozy but long
4.1 2x for what it is, it's great. perfect for background while studying or working.
OG dross
Not even Eno's best Ambient album
Peaceful. 3.5/5
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3/10 19.02.2016
Eno created a genre here, but it’s a bit of a dead end. Fascinating but best as a one off for me.
Not as bad as I was expecting as it got me locked in at work, but very boring
Ummm idk about this album. It’s kind of a weird concept to listen to ambient music in my opinion. This album feels like a mixture of sounds that can be an alarm on your phone, music they’d play at a spa for meditation, a lofi version of the music that plays on the mii application on the wii, and the sound associated with angelic beings in movies. This album is only 4 songs there is no reason it should be 48 min. The songs carry on too long without much transition at any point. For me personally, there’s too much space between notes so it’s easy for me to drift off or lose focus. Calling this elevator music or hold music isn’t really fitting cause even that has more tempo than this. Sonically it sounds really beautiful, but it’s just not for me personally. Final verdict is this would go hard in a yoga studio, but outside of that there is no reason for me to be playing this.
This was my first ambient album and I will never not love it.
Classic Ambient
Ambient, chillout, call it what you will. This is best played after you've had a shit of a day and you need to unwind before you kick something across the room that you shouldn't. Nice.
ok halt mal kurz ganzes genre erfunden heads up brain! 6st Laufzeit und oh ich mags schon wieder ein fünfer... c
I couldn't do this one. It was definitely not for me. I realized the Ambien is derived from Ambient, which coincides with the sleepiness I felt. I get that it helped definite the genre, but when I am listening to these albums on my drives to and from work, this is not my first choice. That said, I think if I put this on at work, which I still may do, I may bump this up a star.
Well, it is ambient.
Booorrrriiinnngggggggg
well, the title isn't lying
Soothing!
I don’t know that I really ‘get’ ambient music but I liked this and listened to it while I was working and found it upbeat and calming. Never going to be like my favourite tracks but pleasant.
I understand that the ambient isn't very dynamic, but I didn't hear anything truly interesting in this album. For example, C418 did it much better. Rate 5/10
My Brain started running at Twice the Frequency after listening to this. My Iq is Now 300. THANKS BRIAN
Airports could do with a bit of this !!
Duller than the dullest of dishwater
Reviewing this feels like grading cream paint — technically fine, but do I want to stare at it for 48 minutes? Not really! Nothing happens — and then it keeps not happening. I respect the concept. I just don’t enjoy the experience.
Hard to know how to score this one really. Plus points for creating ambient music itself. However, that’s such a sweeping genre of music, it can and does also include hours/days/months of irritating nothing sounds. This album was about right for background music while working today, another day and time it could be quite frustrating as nothing really happens. Other future generations corrected that somewhat. Think that puts us square in 3* territory then….
"As ignorable as it is interesting": what a perfect description of this album. Although it apparently was designed to be calming and tension-diffusing, my first impression was that it inspired a deep sadness; the title of the album combined with the music evoked memories of my own experiences in airports, but only the goodbyes without the hopeful excitement. The feeling of leaving a time, place, person you know deep down you’ll never see again. Once the loop set in and I eased into the music, the poignancy wore off, and it faded into the background like it was intended to. Still, it certainly maintains the “interesting” aspect as much the the “ignorable” one. I think this is something I’ll find myself returning to in the future. A lovely work.
I don't know how you rate something like this. It's clearly an inflection point in music. Everything that came after it knew this existed.
I respect it but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t struggle with it
What's with the meditation music on this list?
this most be the kind of music they put in hell on a loop and i reaaaaally dislike it for it
Ambient music’s lodestar. Eno is…Eno.
Omg - couldn’t listen to much of this - not too uplifting.,,.
Great music to fall asleep to.
good sleep album
I really like ambient music.
Technically boring, but I like ambient music and this sounds great for studying.
Brian eno invented the concept of lofi hiphop beats to study to and also the PlayStation Home Screen music
I enjoy ambient music so one would think I would enjoy this, considering it was the album the name was coined, but I found it rather meh. Repetitive and forgettable. In fact, when it suddenly got good I realized the album had ended and a different Eno song "An Ending" had autoplayed next.
Nice for an easy listening maybe for like yoga
How did the avante garde end up here in the late 70's? I mean I understand how, but it really fucked any sort of art music forever because of this garbage genre, because where do you go from here?
This was my first real exposure to Brian Eno. This was just a little too AMBIENt for me....
Brian Eno twice in three days is a choice. I get the importance of this, but this is just a straight up background noise album.
go by train it's a lot better
the vibes are immaculate
I love this.
Agradável
Is this even an album?
Fun soothing music
I can appreciate this for what it is. Ambient. It is ambient. I can respect that, but I doubt I'd ever go back to it again.
I want to love Brian Eno ... but my only real exposure to him, is his early contributions in Roxy Music. I this album you really have to be in the mood for, I was listening during a busy day at work, and I just felt like nothing happened. Maybe if I was listening at home with headphones, it would sound better.
Enjoyable
I felt the stress melting off my body. Beautiful and boring.
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Funny, I've had this album in my collection for years, but never got any further than the first track, because I always put it on to relax before falling asleep at night. So, this is the first time I've listened to it as a whole, and it was a beautiful journey. And then, of course, it also has its cultural significance -creating a whole new (music) genre with this record - so a star for that too. 4/5
I don't smoke weed anymore so it's hard to enjoy this. So non-comittal (I know that's the point) that it's just quite annoying. Like, be something or shut up. I know that's the point. But I hate it.
It's hard to rate this, I'm going with 3 because it wasn't interesting but it was influential
Gets the job done for the situation where you need soothing background music. Otherwise it's boring AF
It's hard to know what to rate this. I can't deny that it did what it set out to do - it's very much what it says on the tin - or that it influenced a whole genre of music... Or indeed that it's a really well made piece of background music that's boring, calming and inoffensive in all the right ways. I put this on while I was working, and it was fantastic background music. On the other hand, it's not something I feel that I must have listened to before dying. I understand this album's worth and value on a cognitive level, and on a more abstract level I let it guide me through a meditative state as I plodded away at work, doing worky things... but I don't understand why someone decided this was required listening for life. I don't dislike this one bit, but I am perplexed by its inclusion. I suppose if nothing else it has broadened my horizons slightly and I've learnt something about the origins of ambient music, but this is "1001 albums you must listen to before you die", not "1001 Wikipedia pages about albums you must read before you die".
More like music for airports that have been abandoned by humanity then monitored with time lapse photography to see nature gradually take over again and turn them into luscious ecosystems
No. 92 More than for airports to sleep or study
perfect ambient album, love ambient music right now
While some people, probably with too much anxiety issues, see this a boredom. I see myself tripping in acid on top a glacier as it melts in ultra slow motion. Of course there's a time and a place for this, but nonetheless it is an immersive and contemplative sound.
The best ambient album ever made. This music has a nearly medicinal effect on me.
well... it lives up to its name in a sense. It felt more like I was in a yoga studio than an airport entire time. And I am very unsure why it made it onto this playlist
Not my thing. Very spacy and ethereal, but also not super interesting. It's like the music that plays in the background of a B-level early '00s movie about kind aliens or something. Definitely not one for me to seek out, but not offensive.
to sie nazywa trafny tytul plyty ambient numer 1, muzyka dla lotnisk, to chyba najlepsze co slyszalem z tego gatunku do tej pory, plyta z 79, ktora dala poczatek serii ambientowej w dyskografii pana eno, o ile zazwyczaj jedynie narzekam na muzyke elektroniczna, to ten pick pokazuje, ze jak maszyna w dobrych rekach i osoby o odpowiednich uszach potrafi stworzyc muzyke potrafiaca poruszyc, bo wykorzystane zasoby na tej 42 minutowej plycie sa tak skromne, ze mozna je wymienic w dwoch zdaniach, klawisze aktustyki i elektryki, trzy wokale, gdzie wokalami sa praktycznie pojedyncze nutki, syntezator i rekorder tasmowy do tworzenia wielowarstwowego brzmienia, ktory sie zapetla, jak cos tak prostego moze stworzyc brzmienie ktore jest tak dotykajace, zwlaszcza pierwsza polowa slucha sie wrecz transowo, a najblizsze skojarzenia to pustka, nicosc, no i halo, bo jedna nutka spiewana brzmi jak poczatek theme muzyczki, ale tak czy inaczej pierwsze 2 traki, wiec 25 minut plyty slucha sie samo, jesli pierwsza czesc byla hipnotycznie transowa, to druga jest wybudzieniem z tego doswiadczenia i calosc ma spojna kompozycje, ale zeby koncept muzyki ambientowej dla lotnisk przekuc w cos tak niezwyklego dla ucha, nie ma co dodawac na plejke, bo caly krazek zasluguje ma miejsce w biblioteczce
My first venture in Brian Eno. Great album to relax to. Perfect background music for working, studying, etc. I’ll be checking out his other ambient projects.
Ummm… clearly innovative and well composed/produced. But it’s very deliberately background music. Only really needs to be played at Zen yoga retreats or old peoples’ homes. Don’t really think it would work at the airport!
another holy grail amongst the ambient albums, has a very minecraft-ish calm sense of tranquility with a touch of classic side.
very chill, good for studying
L'importance de cet album est indéniable : l'ennui qu'il suscite est incroyable, pour cela il mérite bien 1 étoile seulement. Il a aussi ouvert une boîte de Pandore quant à l'émergence de la musique dite "ambient", c'est-à-dire de la musique faite par des logiciels musiciens moyens qui n'écrivent que des bouts de mélodies dans réussir à faire plus que de la musique de fond. Place totalement méritée dans les albums à avoir écouté au moins une fois. Mais c'est la fois de trop quand c'est volontaire.
There was music on in the background while I worked?
2.5 - Meh
I get the historical interest and it was cool to learn about. I don't know that I agree that I MUST LISTEN to this though.
beautiful songs that rlly put me at peace 8/10
one of my all time favorites. this is the album that introduced me to the genre. love the concept of music as ambiance as adding to the feel of a moment in an interesting way. background music should be art.
The Good: We get to hang out in Airports! The Bad: We don’t know if we will be catching a plane. The Ugly: Being lulled into a nap, to wake up and find that the plane is gone! Mr Eno, what have you done? I don’t know what to think of this… seriously… no clue. I like it… Then I get hypnotized… Then I like it a little less… Then I get hypnotized… Then I like it a little bit more… I could be stating something really stupid, but I am too lazy to find out if I am mistaken, but there is a documentary called Koyaanisqatsi, which is something one should see before one dies, which features music by Philip Glass, which to my recollection, sounds like this… at times… But Eno did this well before Philip did… so go figure… I don’t know what I am trying to say… guess I am being hypnotized again by track 1… 4* because it isn’t perfect, but damnit does it draw me in
I find it hard to rate ambient albums in this list, as other genres feel a lot more formulaic. This however is a near perfect piece of music that soothes the soul and quiets the voices of doubt and anxiety
Albums unlike playlists can be impacted by when you listen to them. My experience of this gossamer thin thing was probably improved by my circumstance. Catching an early train the slight, repetitive atmospheres were penetrated by the sounds around me the distorted announcements, the wind. As Eno imagined it would be. The music is never at the forefront but washed over me, in a calming way
This is actually kind of cool and like should I listen to it the next time I’m in an airport?
Music to read or nap by…in the correct context and environment, it’s enjoyable. Three stars.
This is exactly what it says on the tin. And does it perfectly
If this was playing in an airport, I'd miss my flight.
Two stars only cause there is some truly unlistenable trash on this list.
My go to relaxation album.
Already knew this one, great for focus
I don’t actually know how to rate something like this, it’s really nice and calming. Genuinely fell asleep on the first listen. Not in a bored way though more in a relaxed sort of way. It reminded me of what you’d find on the sleep playlist on Spotify. I knew of Brian Eno prior to this through collaboration with David Byrne & I know another one of his songs ‘Baby’s on Fire’. This album however is nothing like either of those tracks, so I assume his discography is very experimental and has touched on a lot of different genres & sounds. The music was really pleasant and chilled, nothing stood out majorly but it was good to shut off too. I could use this album to relax or use it when I’m hungover. It definitely is background music, would go hand in hand with studying or reading. Favourite tracks are: ‘1/1’ & ‘2/1’.
+ Sykt for å være fra 1977, avslappende, crisp produksjon, piano slaps - Kanskje litt anonym, altså ikke så mye særpreg, selv om det er ambient kan sangene dra litt til tider.
Just shitty ambient music
I mean, it's fine? Very lovely for what it is, but what it is is just background music that i don't feel you're meant to notice very much - i certainly struggles to focus on it, but it was still... nice?
I knew this was great, but it's nice to revisit an absolute classic. I listen to so much ambient music so it's nice to go back to one of the originators of the sound.
Peaceful sounds like the kind you might play while watching a flower bloom or season s changing on a time lapse film.
Ambient music for airports is a really good descriptor for this. I got a ton of journaling done in these 48 minutes; really good study music. I will be saving this for other concentration projects. There's not a whole lot to say about ambient music. It's calming and accomplishes its goal. Production is good, but I wasn't the hugest fan of the "choral" sound used in the middle two tracks. Otherwise, good stuff. 3/5.
Genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed this. Music to relax to
I love me a good instrumental album, and Brian Eno's name alone immediately interested me - specifically, how he'd approach a concept (music for airports) as opposed to a U2 album. This is an album you can ignore, which is to say, it's quite peaceful and you forget about it. Piano heavy, soothing choir, contemplation in its tone. Maybe a bit "mystery of the vista / great unknown" - maybe for a plane ride? - rather than something that's actually suited for an airport. Then again, this was the late 70s, and airports were a much different, more romantic place then. I like this music for work, massage... but not much else. 2/2 does sound a lot like the music in the movie, OBEX, where the hero goes on a long journey outside the safety of his home in search of his dog... in a video game that's all too immersive. It has the power to invoke thought, but isn't demanding that. We're now at a time where lo-fi and work music is its own genre. At the time, this was among the first - and its influence is clear 45+ years later.
ladies and gentleman, the lengendary brian eno and his legendary ambient albums! i will put on this for my calculus ab mock exam. lets check out the progress after 40 minutes. im sorry to announce that i slacked off thinking of unrelated things. im sorry. the ambiants are quite nice but dont help. 3/5
This is nice background music to get a few things done, I’m sure it would also be a good calm-down album in the evening.
Not sure if the long drawn out pauses between songs are intentional or a bad version on Amazon Music. It is what Eno claimed—as ignorable as it is interesting (at least the first half). Listened to this for the last hour of the workday and not really sure I’d be able to pick it out of an ambient music lineup…
Sure, it's boring as hell and I can't forgive the fact that the first track is riffing on Frere Jacques. But I have to admire the commitment to the bit - this does make a lot of sense for an airport.
Boring
4/10
3.5 stars for some reason I always assign the synth sound of the 1970's & 80's to him. I'm not certain I know exactly which albums are the ones that Brian Eno has produced in the past, but I associate bands like Talking Heads & U2 with him. I enjoyed this album, just wanted a bit more. I know that's not always the point with ambient music but still... didn't have a favorite track.
Why
I was listening to this while stuck in terrible traffic and it didn’t help me calm down at all
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I am sorry nerds, but there is just no point to this one. Sure it seems he was innovating, but just innovating what would become royalty free youtube backer music. I liked here come the warm jets homeboy was doing interesting shit there. This one's nothing but boring. I could do it.
Interesting that this album is credited with defining the "ambient" genre. It's certainly a calm, pleasant listen. I wouldn't mind if it played in an airport. It sounds like an art installation or a meditation class and I could certainly use it as study music. But it's just a little too simple/calm for me to want to return to it.
I appreciate this album being on the list for its importance in music history. That said, it's background music by design, and does its job well. So, maybe 3 stars in a compliment.
Transitioning from this to James Blake's CMYK or Moby's Hymn, the through line is super obvious, especially with the first song. Ultimately, though, it just fades into the background and often veers too close to what you'd hear in a spa.
I don't really get it, I'm not an ambient guy Will I listen to again: 0%
Meh
Not even for background music
Es ist halt "ambient" music. Mit der Erwartungshaltung ist es ok. Zum hinsetzen nud bewusst hören, ist diese Musik nicht gedacht. Ich würde trotzdem andere Arten von Hintergrundmusik bevorzugen. 2/5
I now have an overwhelming desire to buy a neck pillow and $6 water bottle.
It’s cool that this album pretty much launched the ambient music genre. But, I just don’t like ambient music. Reminds me of Ross Geller with his keyboard.
Great!
So dumb.
For years I’ve listened to Brian Eno and played this music at airports and it’s made traveling so much better. Love this album a lot.
I listen to this so often and easily that it’s hard for me to remember that it was pathbreaking. Just seems like what you’re supposed to hear.
very pleasant to listen to, but also a bit slow
Was recommended before by Brandon F. in music history, great ambient
Not my type of music
Spa music.... listened to best when relaxing, not for driving or operating machinery.
Pointless
yeah im just never in the mood to listen to ambient airport music. feel like this didn't need to be on the list.
Somehow pleasant and annoying at the same time
It is what it is. It’s background music. And it’s nice. For what it is. But even then it gets boring.
Hearing this for the first time in decades, my immediate impulse is to contact Mr Eno about possibly suing Trent Reznor for the uncanny similarity with his soundtrack for The Social Network. Otherwise, this comes off as more of a joke than an album and I don't think it should be on this list.
This is definitely the most interesting and intriguing of the five Brian Eno albums in this collection. A large part of its intrigue, though, at least for me, is whether it's really even a music album, or for that matter an album that's even meant to be listened to intentionally at all. Despite its intended airport venue, this album feels more like something that would do best in a museum-like setting, especially where the listener is able to commit a fair amount of time sitting and watching/contemplating something other than the music. At the North Carolina Museum of Art, there's an outdoor camera obscura in a wooden hut that would be perfect for this, as well as an indoor silent, ultra-slow-motion video (Bill Viola's "Quintent of Remembrance") that lasts almost as long as "1/1" but could easily be played with any of the tracks. The only track that didn't do much for me was "2/2", as it reminded me more of Vangelis' "Blade Runner" soundtrack than mechanical ambient music. I have no idea how to rate this album that Eno described as "music to resign you to the possibility of death", but even if it didn't really prompt *those* kind of feelings, it got me thinking more than many albums in this collection. And I'm certainly glad to have heard it before I die.
I remember when this came out--I was in high school and we put it on at a party and thought it was pretty radical. If the Talking Heads were writing songs about books and buildings, why not ambient music for airports? I've always been interested in the concept of "room tone" and this makes it much more interesting.
Cool that this album was the inspiration for the term “ambient music”!
This is a tough one to rate. It's probably not something I'd seek out again, but I enjoyed the effect of it. Meditative, mood-altering. It'd be the soundtrack to a movie I enjoy.
Does what it says on the tin. Unnecessary inclusion in a list of great albums.
I should have just sat in silence
Delivers on what it advertises. In my youth i would have scoffed at this, not seeing the use for it. but now I can absolutely see this being needed for all sorts of environmental needs. there are plenty of places and times where you just need some chill instrumental music in the background. Its lovely and well crafted but just not my jam, so it gets a 2.
While acknowledging Brian Eno's huge influence, I struggle to consider this essential listening—though I guess the book only highlights this, the first of his ambient albums. There's certainly something to be said for its restrained minimalism, but Eno himself declared the music must be "as ignorable as it is interesting." In that case, mission accomplished, as this easily settles into background music while I work.
boring
Good background music
Barely music yet relaxing/interesting
Nice bakgrundsmusik, kommer antagligen ha albumet i bakgrunden några gånger.
This is a lovely album to chillout, relax, take a nap, meditate, do focus work or creative pursuits... the list goes on.
Hmmm. It's fairly boring, but by design. It's kind of beautiful in a minimalistic way, and it succeeds in being generally soothing. So it hits the target...but did I enjoy it? I still don't know. I guess I'll go with a 4, but barely. 3.5
Enjoyable background music.
Intentionally made as background music. Boring by design is still boring
I LOVE BRIAN ENO! But not this Brian Eno... He's on this list several times, no?
Well, as elevator music goes this is pretty good. Fell asleep about halfway thru the first tune but I'm sure the rest was good too.
Even for ambient music this was more tedious to listen to than usual. Brian admits himself that it's "ignorable". The best way to ignore it is by not listening to it at all. Sure, it'd be good to go to sleep to I suppose, but I'm not rating it higher for that. That'd be like criticising a nice jalfrezi because it gives you a bit of the runs on the way out. What a miserable way to bring up a years worth of albums on this site. 4 more from this tosser to look forward too.
This album was the first ever album dubbed "ambient" music, so it's inclusion on the list is an absolute must. The music itself achieves exactly what it it says on the tin, and it holds re-listen value as background music. That said, this is a struggle if you're trying to actively listen. 3.5/5.0: Very Good
i understand the historical implications of this album but do not think its an album you need to hear before you die. it mostly consists of one phrase repeated ad nauseam for 9-16 minutes. it would be ok background music but even for that its way too sparse for my taste. id likely be more forgiving if i got this on a day when i was working but instead i got this on a day when i was spending 5 hours driving, leaving this as my entertainment
This is #day504 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… here's to my second out of five Eno records represented on the list. "As ignorable as it is interesting" is really the best way to put it. I've nothing else to add. Let it be a 3 out of 5. Looking forward to #day505.
Этот альбом не даётся не за что зацепиться, он словно тяжёлый, тягучий воздух, лишь задаёт некое музыкальное пространство. Он дал мне совершенно новое представление о музыке и том какой она может быть
Ik begrijp niet waarom dit hier tussen zit. Dit is toch geen luistermuziek? Heb het eventjes aangezet maar t is geen bal aan. Misschien leuk om op te mediteren maar daar gebruik ik een andere app voor
Sounds lovely Good, nice background All good Eno is muy bueno
Yes it is music for airports but I rarely go to airports so it is not goodm not bad.
Absolutely incredible for an early morning sunrise drive to the gym. Absolutely abysmal for an early morning session at the gym. I feel like I've heard this in a million films. My mind is wandering to soft hues, quiet moments. Absolutely incredible night drive home with the kids asleep in the back
Driving across NE, nearly fell asleep to this. Uber chill
Have spent many contemplative hours with this one. Always enjoy when I put this on and find myself sliding into a state of relaxation.
Fitting that this would come up on a Friday-before-Christmas; as an extremely mellow and contemplative counterpoint to the mad festive whirl. Much of the time, I suspect I might not have the attention span to hear this through in a single sitting, but today it felt like welcome respite.
For what it is, this is the end-all, be-all.
It feels less like music for airports and more like something to play when I want to fall asleep. The track order (1/1, 2/1, 1/2, 2/2) just feels weird to me — it probably indicates some kind of classification, but since the pieces are so long, I couldn’t really tell which tracks were meant to be related.
Brian Eno has been involved in so much great music over the years, from Roxy Music to Talking Heads to Fred Again (to mention just a few). A true artist, and an intellectual. And, this album Ambient 1 is ultimately an intellectual exercise about music and its role within varying spaces (physical and mental). It’s an interesting piece of work in that light…but it’s not especially interesting to listen to. Which is partly the point, I know. But I’ll only listen to this as a late-night sleep aid.
I've listened to this a couple of times before and whilst it's not objectionable it's a little too bland for me. As music for an airport it's probably OK. If it's just background music to play for no other reason then I can listen to it but it's also something to tune out so if you're not deliberately listening to it then you don't notice it.
Definitely on this list because of its musical relevance rather than its catchy tunes. But the first track I genuinely enjoy, the others not so much. This is one I listen to when it’s focus time at work. A tricky one to rate but because I really like listening to 1/1, I’ll give it 3 stars.
wow, this really is ambient
why is this important? Eno started it all that's why - this album is 48 yrs old and I am guessing that all the ambient lounge and instrumental cafè del mar stuff all stems from here. Briano Eno has changed music in many ways and has always been a front runner. So glad he exists.
Spa music. Relaxing but nothing special. Pretty blah.