00 - Discreet Music.nfo
General Information
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Album: Discreet Music
Artist: Brian Eno
Copyright: 1975
Genre: Ambient
File Information
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Number of Tracks: 4
Total Duration: 0:55:01
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: 22-Sep-2014 00:36:07
NFO Created: 22-Sep-2014 12:29:33
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Track List
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File Size MB Duration File Name
1 124.70 0:31:34 01 Discreet Music
2 55.26 0:09:55 02 (i) Fullness of Wind
3 29.30 0:05:19 03 (ii) French Catalogues
4 48.08 0:08:13 04 (iii) Brutal Ardour
Description
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The latter part of 1975 was a remarkably creative period for Brian Eno. With
his masterpiece Another Green World, Eno began moving away from the structure
and sound of pop music toward a more static instrumental model, influenced in
part by Erik Satie and strongly informed by his prior collaborations with
Robert Fripp. Recorded just a month after Another Green World, Discreet Music is
his first full foray into what has become known as ambient music. Using the
same system of two reel-to-reel tape recorders as No Pussyfooting and Evening
Star, Eno was able to layer simple parts atop one another, resulting in a
beautiful piece of music that never really changes but constantly evolves with
the addition and decay of different parts.
And while there were elements of noise and dissonance on the albums with Fripp,
all the sounds here are calming and serene. The second half of the album deals
with the same ideas of recurring themes and evolution but uses a different
approach. Here, members of the Cockpit Ensemble use pieces of the score of
Pachelbel's Canon in D Major, but the relation of these elements changes over time by having the parts slow at differing intervals or using different lengths of the musical score. The same notions of theme and constant variation appear, but without the aid of the tape delay system. The tones of the strings are vastly different from the synth tones of the title track, but the effect on the listener is the same, with the pieces delicately unfolding over time. Discreet Music's
reputation as a groundbreaking and influential work is surpassed only by its
placid beauty. Highly recommended.
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