Track Listing

1. Under Stars
2. The Secret Place
3. Matta
4. Signals
5. An Ending (Ascent)
6. Under Stars II
7. Drift
8. Silver Morning
9. Deep Blue Day
10. Weightless
11. Always Returning
12. Stars

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5313 in Music
• Released on: 2005-03-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Amazon.com essential recording
If you ever wondered what ambient music is all about, you could do worse than listen to the soundtrack by Brian Eno that accompanied the stunning visuals of NASA's Apollo missions to the moon. Created with an intoxicating mixture of acoustic and electronic, the music makes the now-classic space travel images more magical and memorable, introducing a dreamlike element to scenes of cold reality. "An Ending (Ascent)" is about as close to an actual tune as you'll get, but, as with every track, a shining example of what ambient music reveals about itself--slowly and carefully. --Paul Clark

Customer Reviews

Deep space bliss
This is one of three Eno albums I have, and the one I listen to most frequently.

I am very much looking forward to listening to this on headphones as I sit under a star-studded moonless night sky far out in the Utah desert this spring. "Under Stars", under stars.

And "Always Returning" is deep midnight sonic bliss.

Good stuff.

Literally "space rock"
Luis Mejia (son) - A moonlight experience, Brian Eno brought up the ambient of the space and moonlanding in the experimental and electronic way which isn't unimaginable for his works, bringing the marvelous, out of earth moods; the emotion and passion of stars, the curiosity of the universe, the human progress, earth-like themes, among others. Eno delivers the music in a concrete structure but with diverse musical details swinging from electronica to new age, from the electronic sound textures of "Matta" and "Signals", the cheering "An Ending (Ascent)", the earth focused folklore of "Deep Blue Day" to the smooth urbania of "Always Returning", the most impressive feature is the way Eno displays perfectly the vastness of the universe, as in most musical backgrounds is easy to notice the deep-ended sounds, Eno just perfectioned the "news-like" and blurry perception of the moonlanding into his own personal calm ambient expression, as most of the music here was played in an Apollo based film. Just one thing keeps it from being perfect, the moods on "Weightless" is nothing imaginable as being weightless in the universe, this one is the only song resulting unfocused. Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks can be kept as one of the quirkiest ambient efforts in history, just not minimalistic or aggressive, this one is just an out of space atmosphere at all time.

Dreamtime Music
This is a great album and probably my favorite from Brian Eno. It has that dreamy music that is from out of this world. Good for use in trance work and healing sessions in general, as relaxes client and therapist alike. As with much New Age music, this one in particular is timeless.