Brian Eno – Ambient 4 (On Land)

Label:

Virgin EMI Records – ENO2LP8

Series:

Ambient (2) – 4, Mastered At Abbey Road Studios - Half Speed Mastering

Format:

2 x Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Half Speed Mastering

Country:

Europe

Released:

Nov 16, 2018

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Ambient

Description

On ‘Ambient 4 (On Land)’ – the final edition in Eno's ambient series – his palate shifted from electro-mechanical and acoustic instruments towards “non-instruments” like pieces of chain, sticks and stones.

“One of the big freedoms of music had been that it didn't have to relate to anything – nobody listened to a piece of music and said, ‘What's that supposed to be, then?’, the way they would if they were looking at an abstract painting; music was accepted as abstract. I wanted to try and make music which attempted to be figurative, for example by using lots of real noises”, he recalled to Mojo.

In a pioneering early incarnation of what later became widely-known as remixing, Eno explained, “I included not only recordings of rooks, frogs and insects, but also the complete body of my own earlier work making ‘On Land’, which involved feeding unheard tape into the mix, constant feeding and remixing, subtracting and composting.”

Conventional instruments do occasionally feature, however, including Jon Hassell's trumpet and Bill Laswell’s bass. The album also features contributions from Michael Brook and Daniel Lanois

Brian's ambient album from 1982 has been Half Speed mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road studios and is now presented as a 2LP set which plays at 45 RPM and is presented in a gatefold sleeve. Contains an Abbey Road Obi plus an Abbey Road Half Speed Master certificate. The album features contributions from Michael Brook, John Hassell, Daniel Lanois and Bill Laswell. 

A1

Lizard Point

Bass – Bill Laswell

Guitar – Axel Gros

Synthesizer – Michael Beinhorn

Bass – Bill Laswell

Guitar – Axel Gros

Synthesizer – Michael Beinhorn

A2

The Lost Day

B1

Tal Coat

B2

Shadow

Trumpet – Jon Hassell

Trumpet – Jon Hassell

C1

Lantern Marsh

C2

Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)

D1

A Clearing

D2

Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960

Engineer [Live Equalization] – Daniel Lanois

Guitar – Michael Brook

Engineer [Live Equalization] – Daniel Lanois

Guitar – Michael Brook

Companies, etc.

Record Company – UMC Copyright © – Virgin Records Ltd. Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Virgin Records Ltd. Lacquer Cut At – Abbey Road Studios Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – B139028

Credits

Composed By – Axel Gros (tracks: A1), Bill Laswell (tracks: A1), Brian Eno, Michael Beinhorn (tracks: A1) Design, Liner Notes [Text] – Brian Eno Engineer – Andy Lydon*, Barry Sage, Cheryl Smith, Daniel Lanois, John Potoker, Julie Last, Martin Bisi, Neal Teeman Lacquer Cut By – Miles Showell Producer – Brian Eno Typography – Chong-Donnie

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 0602567750574