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Ambient 2: Plateaux of Mirror |  | Artists: Harold Budd, Brian Eno
Label: Astralwerks
Category: Music
Buy New: $11.94
as of 7/29/2010 15:04 CDT details
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 33374
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 724386649720
EAN: 0724386649720
ASIN: B0002PZVHA
Release Date: October 5, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | First Light | | • | Steal Away | | • | The Plateaux Of Mirror | | • | Above Chiangmai | | • | An Arc Of Doves | | • | Not Yet Remembered | | • | The Chill Air | | • | Among Fields Of Crystal | | • | Wind In Lonely Fences | | • | Failing Light |
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| Customer Reviews:
Aural bliss! July 17, 2010
Ben
I actually like this better than Ambient 1: Music for Airports. The Eno/Budd partnership is just brilliant and this (along with The Pearl) is a perfect CD to unwind the day with. I love this CD!
Budd + Eno, an unbeatable combination February 26, 2010
Mike (San Jose, CA)
I've been a fan of Brian Eno throughout his entire career, from Roxy Music to the present. I remember his story about creating "ambient" music on the vinyl album "Discreet Music" (November, 1975).
Short version: He was sick in bed, a friend brought him some music to listen to, he had a small portable stereo phonograph in his room, and one channel kept shorting out. As a result...too sick to get up and adjust the volume or fix the stereo issue...he lay there and listened to the music at low volume, in a much sparser setting due to the missing channel. And he heard possibilities. The rest, as they say, is history.
There may be a fine line between "Ambient" and the "New Age" music popularized by Windham Hill (among others), but there is a line.
I favor Eno's ambient collaborations with Harold Budd over his own efforts in the genre, because the Budd CDs (this one and The Pearl) are melody-based...they rely more on music and melody than, as an example, Eno's own Ambient 4: On Land, which leans on the "soundscape" or "sound collage" concept of rumblings, noises, voices...little snippets of everything that amused Eno in the editing room.
You have to "get inside" this music...my suggested method of listening is with headphones, maybe on your iPod or other portable music player, in a place where you are relatively free from distractions. It's only then that the layers reveal themselves, that the subtleties of Eno's various "treatments" can be heard to their best advantage.
I highly recommend both Budd-Eno collaborations.
The most beautiful of the Ambient Series--shimmers softly February 10, 2010
Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA)
"Plateaux" is described as having a quality as if "two people decided to suddenly speak a new language made up of coherent sounds but with no pre-existing grammar." Here, the pre-existing grammar could be defined as predictable melodic sequences. Yet "Ambient 2" contains some of the most lyrical pieces of the 4 album series.
The chiming sounds of keyboard or synthesizer are played against either a silent background, fading into quiet, or against a low struck tone that hovers in the background. The feeling is of floating on a lake at night, with the dark bowl of the sky completing a sphere of velvet around you and only the glistening stars for companions.
This is by far my favorite of the Eno collaboration albums in the series. Harold Budd and Brian Eno seem to, indeed, speak a new language that both comprehend and we can marvel at.
AMBIENT MASTERPIECE December 3, 2009
DAVID HALL (USA)
I sampled this c.d. first and then purchased it on Amazon. Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror is quite simply an Ambient MASTERPIECE. Beginning to end. Brian Eno and Harold Budd are MASTERS of vision and execution. That's all that need be said. Except to invite you to listen to it and find out for yourself.
Pleased, I am March 20, 2009
Avatar2000 (USA)
Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
I had this music on an LP when I lived in San Francisco years ago. It is very good to find it available on a CD so I can listen and meditate or just sit and "day dream", as I do some days.
I strongly suggest this music to anyone who wants a "quiet time" with very pleasant sounds.
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