Brian Eno - Discreet Music [VINYL]

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While his earlier work with Robert Fripp on \u2018No Pussyfooting\u2019 and several selections from his own \u2018Another Green World\u2019 feature similar ideas, \u2018Discreet Music\u2019 marked a clear step toward the ambient aesthetic Eno would later codify with 1978's \u2018Ambient 1: Music for Airports.\u2019\r
The inspiration for this album began when Eno was hospitalised after an accident. Whilst bed-ridden and listening to a record of eighteenth-century harp music, the volume was too low and he couldn\u2019t reach to turn it up. It was raining outside, and Eno recounts he began listening to the rain and to 'these odd notes of the harp, that were just loud enough to be heard above the rain'.\r
'This presented what was for me a new way of hearing music \u2013 as part of the ambience of the environment, just as the colour of the light and the sound of the rain were parts of that ambience', he observed.\r
The A-side of the album is a thirty-minute piece titled \u2018Discreet Music\u2019, which Pitchfork called \u201cone of the greatest single ambient pieces that Eno has produced\u201d. It was made using two overlapped tape loops of melodic synthesizer phrases of different lengths. This technique became known as \u2018Frippertronics\u2019; one of Eno\u2019s early forays into algorithmic, generative composition \u2013 exploring multiple ways to create music with limited planning or intervention. \r
The second half of the album, titled \u2018Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel\u2019 features the Cockpit Ensemble, playing brief excerpts from the score, which were repeated several times, with the tempo and other elements gradually altered \u2013 the end result of which \u201cforced the listener to switch fundamental modes of hearing\u201d, Pitchfork proclaimed.\r