Dedalus Ensemble - Performing Brian Eno: Discreet Music/Music for Airports/Thursday Afternoon [2CD]

Sub Rosa

£16.18

Format: 2 x CD
Catalogue No.: SR540
Barcode: 5411867115403
Release Date: 07 Apr 2023
Genre: Modern Classical

With Discreet Music (1975), Music for Airports (1978) and Thursday Afternoon (1985), Brian Eno invented a new music genre, Ambient Music, which he defined as "able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting." These versions performed and arranged by Dedalus Ensemble, according to the musicians and the critics who listened to it, goes beyond what we expect from it. A mental base that takes us far away. One of the only music without beginning or end in which we want to stay as long as possible. Inspired by Erik Satie's furniture music, Cage's indeterminacy and La Monte Young's drones, Eno's series of compositions were based on strict formal protocols bringing the listener into an enthralling world of sounds. Brian Eno was widely seen as a pioneering and influential figure of popular music and worked with icons of pop culture such as David Bowie, U2....

Track Listing 2CD CD 1 1/Thursday Afternoon 16'42 2/Discreet Music 17'52 CD 2 1/Music for Airports 2/part 1 17'11 3/part 2 14'28 4/part 3 11'36 5/part 4 12'34 Track Listing 2LP side 1 1/Thursday Afternoon 16'42 side 2 1/Discreet Music 17'52 side 3 1/Music for Airports part1 14'09 2/Music for Airports part2 6'37 side 4 1/Music for Airports part3 11'36 2/Music for Airports part4 9'37