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Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
(more) »rank: 102by: David Byrne, Brian Eno
: :David Byrne and Brian Eno have paired up for their first record together as co-writers since the highly influential and critically acclaimed 1981 release My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is the culmination of a year s worth of writing, recording, and travelbetween New York and London.Everything That Happens... was conceptualized during a visit to Brian Eno s studio after the two reconnectedupon Nonesuch Records re-release of Bush of Ghosts. Byrne explains, ''I recall Brian mentioning that hehad a lot of largely instrumental tracks he d accumulated, and since, in his words, he hates writing ...
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
(more) »rank: 3085by: Brian Eno, David Byrne
:Album Description:Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts appears downright visionary. With its 'found' vocals, cut-and-paste arrangements, funked-up rhythms and embrace of influences from all around the globe, the duo's controversial work anticipated the creative cross-pollination and technological innovation of contemporary dance music, world music, hip hop and alternative rock. You can hear echoes of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in the anthems Moby built around vintage vocal samples, in the outrageously exotic beats of Missy Elliot and Timbaland, in the Middle Eastern accented chill-out tracks of Thievery Corporation or Bjork's otherworldly soundscapes. essential recording:Released ...
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Ambient 1: Music for Airports
(more) »rank: 5058from: Astralwerks
: essential recording:Eno's theory of the 'discreet music' he called ambient was far from the modern chill-out room: the idea was that it should function at very low volumes, unobtrusively coloring the atmosphere of a room. Evolving by tiny gradations, the long pieces of Music For Airports (the first in a series of albums that followed the statement of purpose Discreet Music) defy close attention, but then they're not meant to be listened to consciously; they're meant to serve as a counterpoint to the frantic arcs of travel, or rather to be imagined in that setting. --Douglas Wolk Amazon.com:This complex sound sculpture was ...
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Velvet Goldmine: A film by Todd Haynes: Music From The Original Motion Picture
(more) »rank: 8773by: Carter Burwell, Brian Eno, Shudder to Think, Placebo, The Venus in Fur, Wylde Ratttz, Grant Lee Buffalo, Pulp, Roxy Music, Teenage Fanclub & Donna Matthews
: essential recording:Director Todd Haynes's celebration of the sex, drugs, and rock & roll of the British glam era of the early '70s, Velvet Goldmine, would be nothing without the music that inspired it. A few unusual absentees (no Bowie, Iggy Pop, or New York Dolls?), but folks such as Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Lou Reed, and T-Rex are represented. Several covers from the glam era are performed without much deviation by two supergroups: the Venus in Furs, featuring members of England's elite--Bernard Butler, and Thom Yorke of Radiohead; and Wylde Ratz, featuring Mark Arm of Mudhoney, Ron Asheton of the original Stooges, ...
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Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
(more) »rank: 9988by: Harold Budd & Brian Eno
: essential recording:Director Todd Haynes's celebration of the sex, drugs, and rock & roll of the British glam era of the early '70s, Velvet Goldmine, would be nothing without the music that inspired it. A few unusual absentees (no Bowie, Iggy Pop, or New York Dolls?), but folks such as Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Lou Reed, and T-Rex are represented. Several covers from the glam era are performed without much deviation by two supergroups: the Venus in Furs, featuring members of England's elite--Bernard Butler, and Thom Yorke of Radiohead; and Wylde Ratz, featuring Mark Arm of Mudhoney, Ron Asheton of the original Stooges, ...
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Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
(more) »rank: 10783from: Astralwerks
: essential recording:If you ever wondered what ambient music is all about, you could do worse than listen to the soundtrack by Brian Eno that accompanied the stunning visuals of NASA's Apollo missions to the moon. Created with an intoxicating mixture of acoustic and electronic, the music makes the now-classic space travel images more magical and memorable, introducing a dreamlike element to scenes of cold reality. 'An Ending (Ascent)' is about as close to an actual tune as you'll get, but, as with every track, a shining example of what ambient music reveals about itself--slowly and carefully. --Paul Clark
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Pure Moods, Vol. III
(more) »rank: 13267by: Various Artists, Blue Man Group, Brian Eno & Geoffrey Oryema, David Lanz, Enigma, Enya, Jessie Cook, Kitaro, Moby, Eight Others
: :What's most surprising about the Pure Moods series is not that it is so popular, but that the music on it actually represents some of the best New Age and modern instrumental music, rather than scraping the barrel. For every piece of Enya pop froth--like her 'Only If,' which opens the album--there is a deep and impassioned exploration like Sheila Chandra's virtually a cappella 'Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean.' Yanni's bombastic 'On Sacred Ground' is balanced by Moby's soulful trance groove, 'Porcelain.' Sometimes those juxtapositions don't work out well. The overwrought romanticism of pianist David Lanz's 'Cristofori's Dream' can only suffer being sandwiched between the ...
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Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
(more) »rank: 19422by: Laraaji, Brian Eno
: :What's most surprising about the Pure Moods series is not that it is so popular, but that the music on it actually represents some of the best New Age and modern instrumental music, rather than scraping the barrel. For every piece of Enya pop froth--like her 'Only If,' which opens the album--there is a deep and impassioned exploration like Sheila Chandra's virtually a cappella 'Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean.' Yanni's bombastic 'On Sacred Ground' is balanced by Moby's soulful trance groove, 'Porcelain.' Sometimes those juxtapositions don't work out well. The overwrought romanticism of pianist David Lanz's 'Cristofori's Dream' can only suffer being sandwiched between the ...
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Beyond Even (1992-2006)
(more) »rank: 54929by: Robert Fripp & Brian Eno
: :What's most surprising about the Pure Moods series is not that it is so popular, but that the music on it actually represents some of the best New Age and modern instrumental music, rather than scraping the barrel. For every piece of Enya pop froth--like her 'Only If,' which opens the album--there is a deep and impassioned exploration like Sheila Chandra's virtually a cappella 'Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean.' Yanni's bombastic 'On Sacred Ground' is balanced by Moby's soulful trance groove, 'Porcelain.' Sometimes those juxtapositions don't work out well. The overwrought romanticism of pianist David Lanz's 'Cristofori's Dream' can only suffer being sandwiched between the ...
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Discreet Music
(more) »rank: 22267from: Astralwerks
: :What's most surprising about the Pure Moods series is not that it is so popular, but that the music on it actually represents some of the best New Age and modern instrumental music, rather than scraping the barrel. For every piece of Enya pop froth--like her 'Only If,' which opens the album--there is a deep and impassioned exploration like Sheila Chandra's virtually a cappella 'Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean.' Yanni's bombastic 'On Sacred Ground' is balanced by Moby's soulful trance groove, 'Porcelain.' Sometimes those juxtapositions don't work out well. The overwrought romanticism of pianist David Lanz's 'Cristofori's Dream' can only suffer being sandwiched between the ...
