brian eno "apollo" - c or d

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the "traffic" thing = otm! after the final scene of that movie i sat in the theatre watching them play out the baseball game while the credits rolled (couldn't you hear the sound of metal bats connecting with baseballs too? the whole thing totally redeemed a mediocre movie for me) and i kept saying WHAT IS THIS, I KNOW THIS and then forgot all about it until i was listening to "atmosphere" weeks later and it hit me.

....and i sat through "traffic" again about a month weeks later, when someone asked me to go and i didn't want to go, just waiting for that last scene and it was still fantastic. thanks brian eno.

a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:36 (twenty years ago) link

atmosphere=apollo

a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago) link

And old pal used to refer to it as "Dobros on the Moon," which works for me.

Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 12 April 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

"Under Stars" (the slowed-down one) is great.

Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

side 2's great for slow dancin' with the sweetheart.

sexyDancer, Monday, 12 April 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

I haven't heard all of Eno's ambient albums, but this is my favorite of the few that I have. It doesn't sound dated to me, maybe just a tone here or there. (and dated isn't much of a criticism in my view, so long as it's the right kind of dated).
Everybody always mentions 'An Ascent' but I'll take 'Always Returning' any day of the week.

oops (Oops), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...
plateaux of mirror is my fave of the eno "ambient" albums ones i know. it's not ambient in the clinic aural wallpaper sense like music for airports e.g. it is warm and impressionistic with a strong introspective and melodic touch. apollo is fine as well. the last tracks with lanois on guitar though bother me slightly as they get more and more countryish. as if to underline the fact that apollo was an american mission!

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 22 August 2004 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link

alex in mainhattan, Plateaux of Mirror is a favorite of mine too. It ties with Apollo and Music for Film. If you haven't you might want to check Music for Film out.

steve hise, Sunday, 22 August 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

music for films is one of my faves too. check that other eno thread, steve! do you know thursday afternoon? the next eno album on my wishlist. i have most others.

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 22 August 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I know Thursday Afternoon. It might be too aural-wallpapery not to put you off. It's just him, no sound effects, plinking away at a piano for an hour. Patterns get repeated, but the deliberate meditativeness is never dispelled by any kind of climactic *MOMENT*. Good music to sleep to, or read to, or to have on in the background to stare out the window.

steve hise, Sunday, 22 August 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll defend Music For Airports as being his best or most successful ambient record (Discreet Music coming in 2nd) specifically for it's starkness or "clinical" wallpaper sound. That's what the intention of the ambient music was. When warmth or impressionism enter the mix, it ends up bringing the ambient music more into the foreground of the listener's attention, when it's supposed to (by Eno's original definition) stay as far in the background as possible.

Bits of Apollo are good, but alot of it is pap. Particularly most of side two if I remember correctly.

Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Sunday, 22 August 2004 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I blame Daniel Lanois.

mzui, Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

ascent has become a staple for film directors now, and threatens to become cliché. but i think it's durable like the moonlight sonata.

amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Saw "The Apollo Project's" (Larry Campbell, David Torn, Mike Gordon, itsnotyouitsme, Jeff Parker and Noveller) live version of Apollo when I was in NYC last week and man it was tremendously great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW20zZ68i2c

Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 12 January 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link

seven years pass...

Has anyone bought the expanded reissue?

Duke, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link

hi!

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link

Haha. All I could find was this Pitchfork review by a certain Alfred Soto, whoever the hell he is supposed to be...

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/brian-eno-apollo-atmospheres-and-soundtracks-extended-edition/

Duke, Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link

It's a fave album of mine, and I have the new version, just haven't gotten around to it.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link

I think I'll have to get it. Also a fave of mine

Duke, Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link

six months pass...

I’ve been listening to the second disc a ton the last few days. It’s neither as spookily ethereal as a “Stars” nor as overtly straightforward as “Silver Morning” – the whole thing was done trading stems and MIDI files and a number of the tracks feel like distant cousins of “Deep Blue Day” and “An Ending (Ascent).” But all in all, a nice listen.

I’m looking forward to his reunion with Roger. The first few tracks they’ve released have been really nice.

Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 13 March 2020 03:53 (four years ago) link

Have always lived Deep Blue Day which is like country tinged ambient. Guess you know. I take it it's a reference to one of the crew being a major Buck Owen fan.
Anyway blooming sublime.

Stevolende, Friday, 13 March 2020 08:09 (four years ago) link

Always loved that is. My days are not all deep blue. But if that was a lifestyle not sure how it'd be,a little melancholy?

Stevolende, Friday, 13 March 2020 08:15 (four years ago) link

I bought the two disc remaster out of loyalty to this amazing album. But I confess I've barely listened to it - and certainly not the second disc. I must do so

Duke, Friday, 13 March 2020 11:45 (four years ago) link

Yes, and I won’t lie: it’s going down particularly nicely in the midst of all this chaos right now.

Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 13 March 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link


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