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Brian Eno- An Ending (Ascent)

My god, what a tune. Brian Eno is the master of ambient but I think artists like Steve Roach and Milieu are great aswell, but nothing compares to Ascent. Any opinions? I always use this tune when i want to have Lucid Dreams.

A lot of tunes compare to An Ending, it's a truly beautiful piece but it has imo received an unproportionate amount of attention, especially since it comes from a fantastic work like Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. You have the stars tracks Under Stars/Under Stars 2/Stars, and the country ambient tracks towards the end, you could find youself weeping after listening to Deep Blue Day or Weightless.

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ill sy it once and ill say it again.
this tune is one of my all time favorites.

The leama and moor mix has always blown me away, I'm gonna check out the original now...

10/10

I haven't heard too much Eno stuff except Apollo and Ambient 1 music for airports, but there are many other drone ambient classics in my opinion but not comparable to Ascent.

Brian Eno- An Ending (Ascent) (A+)
Milieu- Lazy Days On Our Hillside (A-)
Mark Isham- On The Threshhold Of Liberty (A)
Mark Isham- Crash (A)
Milieu- Dream From Above Houses (A)
Steve Roach & Loren Norell- Eceiposis (A+)
Steve Roach- Dreamtime Return (Album) (A+)

++ An Ending (Ascent) was featured in Traffic & 28 Days Later sountracks. I love the whole Traffic soundtrack by Cliff Martinez.

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Originally posted by Atom-B I haven't heard too much Eno stuff except Apollo and Ambient 1 music for airports, but there are many other drone ambient classics in my opinion but not comparable to Ascent.

An Ending is not drone ambient, it has a harmonic progression throughout and it is fairly melodic.

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Mark Isham- Crash (A)

Awesome.

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Steve Roach & Loren Norell- Eceiposis (A+)

Really really good, if you haven't, check out the whole album Terraform.

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Steve Roach- Dreamtime Return (Album) (A+)

One of the best albums of all time.

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Originally posted by SMC An Ending is not drone ambient, it has a harmonic progression throughout and it is fairly melodic.

Shit yeah sorry ive been throwing that term around too much

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp- Bringing Down the light

they play the original at the World War II museum in New Orleans for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki exhibits. Somehow chills up the spine does not quite describe it.

Michael Dow's new version titled "Ascent" is amazing for those who haven't hear it yet. Just released in February

Leama & Moor Mix is the absolute dogs! Love that record.

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Originally posted by tibberino Leama & Moor Mix is the absolute dogs! Love that record.

+1

I also suggest to check the classic album "Structures in Silence" by Steve Roach. Great Ambient record! If you like Eno's "Ascent", i would also suggest to listen to an album called "Souvlaki"(kind of funny if you know what it is) by Slowdive, a beautiful shoe-gaze/dreampop/ambient band form norway. Eno has collaborated with them for the "Souvlaki" record and the result is typical Slowdive fully-reverbed/delayed quitar and synth soundscapes on a more Enoesque spacey/cosmic edge.


Here is a tune by Slowdive, but unfortunately not from souvlaki but from their previous "Just For A day". Nevertheless it has some similar spacey qualities. Check it out.


Slowdive- "Catch The Breeze"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVY9...related&search=


and don't forget Susumu Yokota, another master of ambient music with to many good albums to mention ("Sakura" was one of his great moments). Here's just a small fraction of his work

Susumu Yokota- "Yuen-po"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRza...related&search=

and ofcourse i would suggest the usual suspects such as Ulrich Schnauss, Jon Hopkins, Arovane, Bola, Helios, Global Communications, Windy & Carl...

here are some samples:


Bola- "Glink" (this is from the album "Soup", which IMO is one of the best ambient records that ever existed)

http://shop.skam.co.uk/acatalog/1.%20Glink.mp3


Bola- "VM8"

http://shop.skam.co.uk/acatalog/10.%20VM8.mp3


Arovane- "Ten Hours"

http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF149323-01-01-01.mp3

Helios- "Dragonfly Across The Ancient Sky"

http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF221971-02-01-03.mp3

Jon Hopkins- "Private Universe"

http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF224325-01-01-01.mp3

and windy and carl which sound like Eno gone darker...these are more "pure ambient" no beats and stuff...

Windy and Carl- "Undercurrent"

http://www.brainwashed.com/common/s...ndercurrent.mp3

Windy and Carl- "The Silent Ocean"

http://www.brainwashed.com/common/s...ilent_ocean.mp3

Windy and Carl- "Elevation"

http://www.brainwashed.com/common/s...l-elevation.mp3

Now if you are an ambient fan ypu probably know allready all these names i mentioned

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Originally posted by PETRAN I also suggest to check the classic album "Structures in Silence" by Steve Roach. Great Ambient record!

Structures From Silence.

bola is sweet. i wish his records weren't so damn expensive...

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Originally posted by SMC Structures From Silence.

Woops yeah sorry lol.

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Originally posted by PETRAN Woops yeah sorry lol.

I was just listening to Steve's "Gray And Purple" from Texture Maps: The Lost Pieces 3 but originally recorded in the 80s, 87 if i remember correctly. It's one of those Steve Roach pieces i always keep coming back to and listening to on repeat for hours, it's so good. It's not warm and comforting like for example Structures From Silence but it's not cold and dark either, it's like streams of light and serene atmospheres dissolving in a dark sorrounding. There is something about it's length too, it's 22 minutes, it's long enough to feel "long" but at the same time it's not THAT long, i really get lost in it.

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