[Ambient 40] -- Forty years ago this week, Brian Eno released Ambient 4: On Land, the fourth and final entry in his ambient series. Oh, but if you want to get technical about it, Discreet Music (1975) was Eno's first foray into ambient music, so today's Flashback could be considered his fifth overall ambient collection. Anyway, the first two in this series – Ambient 1: Music for Airports and Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror – were released in the late 1970s. The third entry, Ambient 3: Day of Radiance, was released in 1980. Although each record has a different focus, each one was meant to stand as a sound installation. According to Eno, "... the making of records such as On Land involved feeding unheard tape into the mix, constant feeding and remixing, subtracting and 'composting'" (Sound on Sound). I like that notion of composting rather than composing. I'll keep that in mind while this atmospheric audio takes root in my brain this weekend. It's exactly the soundtrack I need for doing homework.
Flashback: Ambient 4: On Land
That's all till next week. Dedicated 80s-philes can find more flashbacks in the Prophet or Madman archives or via Bookended's 80s Flashback tag. As always, your comments are welcome on today's, or any other, flashback post. And if you like what I'm doing here, please share the link with your friends. If, however, you don't like the flashback, feel free to share it with your enemies.
I'll see you in seven!
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