Track Listing

1. Meissa
2. Lyra
3. Tarazed
4. Lupus
5. Ankaa
6. Altair
7. Terebellum

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43399 in Music
• Released on: 2005-04-05
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
So much truly boring ambient music has been made since Brian Eno coined the phrase in the mid 1970s that it's sometimes hard to remember this can truly be a vibrant music that's, you know, musical. And while there are some clicky and smeared sounds courtesy of Mr. Eno that can only result from modern computer software, this album is a return to 1975's lush, pastoral and excellent Evening Star. The duo pick up where they left off on this aptly titled collection of blessed-out drone exercises. Fans of modern ambient music, like the stuff that Kranky label releases, might wish that there was a little more "envelope pushing." However, if you view ambient music on the same level as any other genre (say, bluegrass) then this album is akin to hearing that genre's originators (say, Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley) jamming quietly on a back porch while the sun sets. And it's hard to find fault with that, or this here fine, deliberately unassuming work. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews

It's Freezing Cold in Deep Space
Some ambient music is really mellow and warm, but this superb album by Fripp and Eno is really eerie and cold. It evokes desolate moonscapes and icy wastelands; vast black regions of empty space where dead planets spin lifelessly in the void. It is the perfect backdrop of sound against which one mig
ht read a creepy science-fiction tale like H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" or "The Colour Out of Space." The sound quality is excellent and must be listened to on good equipment (preferably Bose Wave system or Bose headphones) to be fully appreciated.

If you like this one, and like good ambient background reading music that's unobtrusive, non-distracting, and calming, then you will probably also want to check out Brian Eno's "Neroli."

H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)
Neroli

Less than Ambient
What do you do when Ambient Music seems too loud? Try this. This recording sets a new standard for Minimalism. There's so little here to listen to, that it's impossible to become engaged with it on any level, not even as "background music". For two talented artists, this is a very lazy effort, and an insult to their audience.

Excellent ambient/drone
This is an excellent collaboration between Eno and Fripp. While not as revolutionary as No Pussyfooting, it is an excellent companion piece to Evening Star. The two even have a similar "theme".

It is very nice to see Fripp and Eno work together again, even for this one album.

If you are into this sort of ambient/drone music, I also suggest anything by Stars of the Lid- a more recent group who can pull off this music as good as Fripp and Eno.