Dear listeners,If you’re anything like me, you’ve already spent way too much of this summer in airports.
In the mid-1970s, he got the idea for one of his most enduring works during a long, stressful flight delay at an airport in Cologne, Germany.
He began experimenting with this concept, and it eventually led to the gorgeous and indefatigably useful “Music for Airports” (1978), his first declared work of what he called “ambient” music.
I’m not saying your flight delay needs to be as productive as Eno’s; I won’t judge if you fail to conceive an entirely new genre of music before boarding ends.
But if you still need something to listen to when it’s done, there’s always “Music for Airports.” (And Jon Pareles’s playlist of Eno’s 15 best ambient tracks.)
Persons:
you’ve, Brian Eno, I’m, Liz Phair, John Denver, it’s, there’s, Jon Pareles’s
Organizations:
Airports ”, Pitchfork, Music, Airports
Locations:
Cologne, Germany