Brian Eno & Harold Budd - Ambient 2, The Plateaux Of Mirror (1980) {2009 Virgin DSD Remaster}
Brian Eno & Harold Budd - Ambient 2, The Plateaux Of Mirror (1980) {2009 Virgin DSD Remaster}
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© 1980, 2009 Virgin Records / Astralwerks | 50999 6 84526 2 9
Ambient / Electronic / Avant-Garde / Experimental
The second in Brian Eno's ambient series, The Plateaux of Mirrors fuses the fragile piano melodies of Harold Budd and the atmospheric electronics of Eno to create a lovely, evocative work. In sharp contrast to the exaggerated pieces found on his debut, The Pavilion of Dreams, this record finds Budd delivering sharp shards of piano notes pregnant with meaning and minimal in the best sense of the word. Eno's unobtrusive electronics add a resonance and atmosphere that draw from the ambient textures found on Discreet Music, Music for Films, and Evening Star.
The album's best moments evoke their subject matter efficaciously and effortlessly; "First Light" creates an audible early morning chill, "An Arc of Doves" employs flights of Frippertronics, "Not Yet Remembered" seesaws between sleep and consciousness, and so on. Although neither artist is a musician in the usual sense of the word – Budd's piano playing is still somewhat limited here – they excel as musical painters. The wisps of synthesizer that snake through the rattling percussion of "Wind in Lonely Fences," the wistful melody held at a remote distance in "Among Fields of Crystal," the unbounded edges of the piano notes on "Above Chiangmai" – these wash over the listener in a suffusion of sound. The Plateaux of Mirrors remains a fascinating hybrid (as are many of Eno's collaborations), reflecting the uniqueness of both composers in a most flattering light.
Brian Eno & Harold Budd - Ambient 2, The Plateaux Of Mirror (1980) {2009 Virgin DSD Remaster}
Personnel:
Harold Budd - piano and electric piano
Brian Eno - other instruments
Track Listing:
01 - First Light
02 - Steal Away
03 - The Plateaux Of Mirror
04 - Above Chiangmai
05 - An Arc Of Doves
06 - Not Yet Remembered
07 - The Chill Air
08 - Among Fields Of Crystal
09 - Wind In Lonely Fences
10 - Failing Light
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Harold Budd & Brian Eno / Ambient 2 The Plateaux Of Mirror
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EAC extraction logfile from 23. August 2009, 22:17
Harold Budd & Brian Eno / Ambient 2 The Plateaux Of Mirror
Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRRW GWA-4164B Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
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Defeat audio cache : Yes
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TOC of the extracted CD
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––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 7:06.40 | 0 | 31989
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3 | 8:36.26 | 4:13.67 | 38726 | 57767
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Brian Eno & Harold Budd - Ambient 2, The Plateaux Of Mirror (1980) {2009 Virgin DSD Remaster}
Brian Eno & Harold Budd - Ambient 2, The Plateaux Of Mirror (1980) {2009 Virgin DSD Remaster}
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