Track Listing

1. LATE OCTOBER
2. A STREAM WITH BRIGHT FISH
3. THE SILVER BALL
4. AGAINST THE SKY
5. LOST IN THE HUMMING AIR
6. DARK EYED SISTER
7. THEIR MEMORIES
8. THE PEARL
9. FORESHADOWED
10. AN ECHO OF NIGHT
11. STILL RETURN

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61692 in Music
• Released on: 2005-10-04
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
In the final stage of the Brian Eno reissues series, Virgin Records reissues the wonderfully sublime collaboration album with the talented ambient classical composer Harold Budd. In 1980, Eno and Budd collaborated on "Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror", a beautifully crafted ambient album (the 2nd in the recently reissued Eno Ambient series) which contained piano textures seen later in his collaborations with Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins and on this hauntingly serene album 'The Pearl'. The Pearl includes 11 ambient soundscape poems using treated keyboard sounds (both electronic and acoustic) and floats in a fluid and dreamy manner throughout with touches of light colour. As with all recent reissues, these albums have been digitally transferred from the Original Masters by Simon Heyworth and mastered using 'Class A' Analogue Electronics combined with the best Analogue to Digital conversion. EMI. 2005.

Customer Reviews

bittersweet yet forgiving
this music gives me a blissful, somewhat cleansed feeling. there is a bittersweet yet forgiving tone throughout the album. i hear hints of brian eno's thursday afternoon, the moon and the melodies and this mortal coil's filigree and shadow. while listening to the pearl i sometimes remember dreams of living and breathing underwater.

Intelligent Bliss
If my house was burning to the ground, and I had to save just one CD, this would be it. I bought this on vinyl the day it was released, and played it over and over until the needle wore through. Never before had I heard such spatial depth, and like much of the classical music to which I respond, this music evokes endless landscapes and feelings of nostalgia. It's interesting that some 23 years later, I'm still hearing nuances for the first time. As Mies Van Der Rohe once said, "God is in the details", and because of that, this music grows neither old nor tiring.

The most perfect album in existence!
This album can not get old! Every listen is a new journey Into the world of yourself. It has the ability to plow down the ego allowing you to listen to consciousness. Wake up!