A huge congratulations to Brian Eno as ‘Reflection’ receives a thoroughly deserved Grammy nomination for the Best New Age Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards.

 

The brilliant album consists of one unbroken 54 minute track and is available now on  iTunes.

 

“Reflection is the latest work in a long series. It started (as far as record releases are concerned) with Discreet Music in 1975 ( — or did it start with the first Fripp and Eno album in 1973? Or did it start with the first original piece of music I ever made, at Ipswich Art School in 1965 — recordings of a metal lampshade slowed down to half and quarter speed, all overlaid?)

Anyway, it’s the music that I later called ‘Ambient’. I don’t think I understand what that term stands for anymore — it seems to have swollen to accommodate some quite unexpected bedfellows — but I still use it to distinguish it from pieces of music that have fixed duration and rhythmically connected, locked together elements.”…Read More

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This entry was posted on Thursday, November 30th, 2017 at 11:12 am and is filed under Awards, General News.