Welcome back, music lovers. This is diary 100 in the series. I did not expect this to continue this long.
Last week I mentioned that you could probably characterize me as an Eno prog – Brian Eno was certainly associated with progressive rock as it existed in the 1970s (as well as progressive strands of post-punk, etc. thereafter), and his work has resonated with me for a very long time. Although what we think of as ambient music certainly existed before Eno, he at the very least popularized the genre, which still produces active recording artists. An example:
Supposedly, the story behind this track, and the whole album (“Music for Airports”) was that it was intended to prepare air passengers for their potential mortality. Whether or not that is true is probably pretty debatable, but it was a story that seemed to float around in the circles I hung out in a few decades ago. All that said, this does seem like an appropriate track, to the extent that perhaps on some level it touches on the rather delicate connection that each of us as organisms has to existence.
I will post a bit more as time permits, including some of his first solo rock tracks. They are delightfully deranged gems, to say the least, as well as his forays into ambient. Next week I will focus on some of his collaborations as those were often fascinating in their own right.
