An exquisite experiment, Apollo takes Brian Eno's spacescapes from albums like Another Green World and arranges them with some heavenly pedal steel guitar by Daniel Lanois. The recording engulfs the listener and captures the feel of space travel, weightlessness, and other sensations vividly. It's also perhaps Eno's warmest record ever. In the end, it comes off sounding not unlike a Grateful Dead experiment, with Lanois' lazy pedal steel sounding quite similar to Jerry Garcia's playing on David Crosby's "Laughing." An excellent nighttime vehicle.
How could I have forgotten this one? From the father of ambient music himself, Brian Eno, this piece An Ending (Ascent) is one of those about which people happily comment, "That's what I want played at my funeral!" without realizing how incredibly morbid what they've just said is.At once subtly melancholy, suggestive of the isolation and desolation of the vast, endless, empty spaces between sta...
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I'm having trouble with MOGging today, but I'm going to try this one more time. If you already read this, I apologize for the repost, but even though the post showed up in the mogosphere it never made it to my home page, which really bugs me . . . Anyway. just wanted to share one of my favorite early mornign songs with everyone. I'm wondering what songs everyone else likes to listen to to wake...
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Seeing as how I'm up earlier than I want to be, I figured I'd share one of my favorite early morning songs with everyone, "An Ending (Ascent)" by Brian Eno. What does everyone else like to start their day off with?
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A very lovely end to the night or beginning to your week. This track features Daniel Lanois as a collaborator.
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I'm having trouble with MOGging today, but I'm going to try this one more time. If you already read this, I apologize for the repost, but even though the post showed up in the mogosphere it never made it to my home page, which really bugs me . . . Anyway. just wanted to share one of my favorite early mornign songs with everyone. I'm wondering what songs everyone else likes to listen to to wake...
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Seeing as how I'm up earlier than I want to be, I figured I'd share one of my favorite early morning songs with everyone, "An Ending (Ascent)" by Brian Eno. What does everyone else like to start their day off with?
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How could I have forgotten this one? From the father of ambient music himself, Brian Eno, this piece An Ending (Ascent) is one of those about which people happily comment, "That's what I want played at my funeral!" without realizing how incredibly morbid what they've just said is.At once subtly melancholy, suggestive of the isolation and desolation of the vast, endless, empty spaces between sta...
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| 1 Under Stars |
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| 2 The Secret Place |
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| 3 Matta |
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| 4 Signals |
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| 5 An Ending (Ascent) |
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| 6 Under Stars II |
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| 7 Drift |
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| 8 Silver Morning |
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| 9 Deep Blue Day |
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| 10 Weightless |
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| 11 Always Returning |
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| 12 Stars |
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