(Ambient/Meditative) [LP][24/96] Brian Eno, Harold Budd - The Pearl - 1984, Pure Pleasure - 2008, FLAC (tracks)

Brian Eno
http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ино,_Брайан
http://good-music.kiev.ua/news/2008-11-07-46
http://www.myspace.com/enobrian
http://www.azlyrics.ru/b/brian-eno/

Harold Budd
http://www.newalbion.com/artists/buddh/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Budd
http://www.myspace.com/haroldbudd
http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Harold+Budd

Producer - Brian Eno , Daniel Lanois

This sublime, tranquil recording features 11 haunting ambient tone poems for treated piano. They are crafted from simple chords, arpeggios, or melodies that are frequently trailed by delicate electronic whispers to produce dreamy results. Even though Budd and Eno chose to compose and record in a minimalist style, their gorgeous, moody music evokes so much more, for the reverberating spaces between the notes are just as important as the notes themselves. In an interesting experiment, both "Against the Sky" and "An Echo of Night" explore the same melancholic musical theme in different settings--the former is a sparse piano piece with gentle electronic treatments, the latter is a murky synth work set against a nocturnal outdoor backdrop. (Budd later explored the theme again as the ethereal elegy "Olancha Farewell" on his 1986 solo album, Lovely Thunder.) Beautifully understated, the slow-motion ballet of The Pearl is a piece of striking ambient impressionism that was highly original in its day, well before the myriads of New Age imitators its composers spawned, and it remains fresh and vital two decades later. --Bryan Reesman

TT: Technics SL 120 with SME 3009 tonearm
Cartridge: Ortofon Concorde OM 30 MM
Phono amp: Pro-Ject Tube Box II with 2X JAN 12AX 7WA (General Electric)
Cables: Wire World Solstice 5.2
Computer: Sony Vaio
ADC: Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Software: Audacity, ClickRepair