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Discreet Music
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work
Discreet Music came about after Brian Eno, lying in bed following a car accident, was left a record of eighteenth-century harp music by a friend. The music sounded almost inaudibly quiet, and Eno realised that music can also be part of the environment. The album leans on Erik Satie's idea of furniture music and on generative composition: few plans, little intervention.
The title piece lasts thirty minutes. A synthesizer with built-in memory plays two melodic phrases of different lengths, which shift over one another via an echo unit and two tape recorders. On the second half, studio musicians of the Cockpit Ensemble, conducted by Gavin Bryars, perform three variations on Pachelbel's Canon in D. The album is regarded as a clear step towards the ambient music that Eno would later define.
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Track list
- 1Discreet Music31:35Apple Music ↗
- 2Fullness of Wind9:56Apple Music ↗
- 3French Catalogues5:20Apple Music ↗
- 4Brutal Ardour8:14Apple Music ↗
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