Ambient Spotlight #11: Brian Eno - Apollo

Full album-name: "Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks". This album was originally recorded as a soundtrack for the documentary Apollo (For all mankind) in 1983. Songs of this album were later used in lots of other movies (Trainspotting) and tv-series. Brian Eno, Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois produced the album.

It's one of Brian Eno's warmest ambient albums, although there are some pieces that are inspired by country and western ('Silver Morning') and feel a bit out of place compared to the rest of the album.

Apart from that it's an excellent ambient album.

http://itunes.apple.com/album/apollo-atmospheres-soundtracks/id49814746

Dragon’s Eye Recordings: free download

The release of Iron marks the sixth anniversary of Yann Novak relaunching Dragon’s Eye Recordings, the record label originally created by his father Paul Novak in 1989. In previous years, this anniversary compilation has been a chance to look forward to the coming year of artists and releases. With Iron, we will be looking backward at the previous 6 years.

This is a free download (2.5 hours of music!):
http://www.dragonseyerecordings.com/catalogue/de6010.html

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SEQUENCE2: Amazing free download!

More than 4 hours of great music!

Ambient Spotlight #10: Mark Hollis

Maybe not strictly an ambient album, but who cares about labels if the music is stunningly beautiful!
This is the only solo-album from former Talk Talk frontman Mark Hollis, released in 1998. It’s inspired by 20th-century classical music and jazz from the late 1950s and 1960s.

The acoustic music is quite minimal, every note is there for a reason and full of emotion.

Did I mention that it's beautiful? ;-)

http://itunes.apple.com/album/mark-hollis/id14978331

Ambient Spotlight #9: The Dead Texan

The Dead Texan is an audio-visual musical duo comprising of Adam Wiltzie and video artist Christina Vantzou. Adam Wiltzie is known as one half of the ambient project Stars of the Lid (probably one of their albums will be covered in another Ambient Spotlight).

The music on this self-titled album is a combination of acoustic music (piano, guitar, strings) and electronic sounds and drones. It’s actually a CD/DVD package with visuals on the DVD.




Here’s a clip of one of the songs:
http://www.brainwashed.com/common/video/mov/the_dead_texan-aegina_airlines.mov

http://itunes.apple.com/album/the-dead-texan/id21770684

Silence as part of video-art

Mieke van der Poll makes (3D) video-art and poems. For her last project (video-art with poems) she used my music as well. To finish the project, she made an experimental animation with the song ‘Silence’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VcKPyTwJ94

Enjoy!