Altered States I: Landscape

Eno, Brian

Ambient 4: On Land

For the sleevenotes to On Land (written 1982, revised 1986; music recorded between 1978 and 1982), Brian Eno talked about a relationship between the psychoacoustic space of the recording studio and the depiction or evocation of landscape.

Mitchell, Roscoe

Sound

Roscoe Mitchell’s Sound, recorded in Chicago in 1966 with a sextet that included trumpeter Lester Bowie and bass player Malachi Favors, is an excellent example of the complete departure from free jazz and its propulsive expressionism.

Kirchin, Basil

Worlds Within Worlds

In February 1973, for example, he had contributed a sleevenote to Basil Kirchin’s second album, Worlds Within Worlds.

Wolff, Henry and Hennings, Nancy

Tibetan Bells

His second album was released by Island Records during a period when the company was exploring proto-New Age and ambient electronica material such as Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings’s Tibetan Bells and David Vorhaus’s White Noise.

Namlook, Pete

Silence

4'33" is often referred to colloquially as Silence, on the mistaken assumption that this was a Zen demonstration of nothingness.

Cage, John

Variations IV

In his sleevenotes to Cage’s Variations IV …

Bowie, David

Low

… the electronic vignettes recorded with David Bowie on Low and Heroes […] on the Music For Films album; and his records with Jon Hassell, Harold Budd and Daniel Lanois.

Bowie, David

Heroes

… the electronic vignettes recorded with David Bowie on Low and Heroes […] on the Music For Films album; and his records with Jon Hassell, Harold Budd and Daniel Lanois.

Eno, Brian

Another Green World

… the submarine and arboreal tracks on Another Green World […] on the Music For Films album; and his records with Jon Hassell, Harold Budd and Daniel Lanois.

Eno, Brian

Music For Films

… “Events In Dense Fog” and “Final Sunset” on the Music For Films album …

Budd, Harold

Lovely Thunder

Some of this desertbound silence, spooked by shrieks and crosstalk from other worlds, was later bottled and resold in albums such as Lovely Thunder (1986) and By the Dawn’s Early Light (1991).

Budd, Harold

Abandoned Cities/The Serpent

Pieces like Dark Star and Abandoned Cities (both 1984), for example, were cold slabs of opaque colour: Rothko paintings as reworked by Ad Reinhardt; an ominous drift.

Budd, Harold

The Pavilion of Dreams

Yet his 1978 album for Brian Eno’s Obscure label, The Pavilion of Dreams, conjures a gorgeous, translucent mirage.

Hassell, Jon

Dream Theory in Malaya

… Jon Hassell’s Dream Theory In Malaya and Brian Eno’s Apollo sound-track (composed with Lanois and Roger Eno) to For All Mankind …

Eno, Brian

Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks

… Jon Hassell’s Dream Theory In Malaya and Brian Eno’s Apollo sound-track (composed with Lanois and Roger Eno) to For All Mankind …

U2

Achtung Baby

… the band’s Achtung Baby and Zooropa albums deconstruct …

U2

Zooropa

… the band’s Achtung Baby and Zooropa albums deconstruct …

Various

Circadian Rhythm

Incus Records released a single album – Circadian Rhythm – edited down from those thirteen hours.