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Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (1983)

Track listing:
  1. Under Stars 4:30
  2. The Secret Place
  3. Matta 4:21
  4. Signals 2:49
  5. An Ending (Ascent) 4:28
  6. Under Stars II 3:24
  7. Drift 3:12
  8. Silver Morning 2:41
  9. Deep Blue Day 3:58
  10. Weightless 4:38
  11. Always Returning 4:06
  12. Stars 7:59
  13. left it where it fell 20:43

Notes

An exquisite experiment, Apollo takes Eno's spacescapes from albums like Another Green World and arranges them with some heavenly pedal steel guitar by Daniel Lanois. The recording engulfs the listener and captures the feel of space travel, weightlessness, and other sensations vividly. It's also perhaps Eno's warmest record ever. In the end, it comes off sounding not unlike a Grateful Dead experiment, with Lanois' lazy pedal steel sounding quite similar to Jerry Garcia's playing on David Crosby's "Laughing." An excellent nighttime vehicle.