Brian Eno – Ambient 1 (Music For Airports)

Beaucoup de "fans" se posent la question au sujet de la date de publication effective de "Music for Airports".
Beaucoup ont retenu la date 1978 (certains "mars 1978"), probablement à cause de la date inscrite sur l'étiquette centrale du vinyl et sur la pochette de l’album.
Comme certains, lors de l'annonce de la publication de cet album, je me suis précipité chez mon disquaire préféré pour y acheter la 1ere version anglaise du vinyl, dont la pochette intérieure contient un texte de l'ami Brian daté de "septembre 1978". Et ce n'est pas tout, la matrice du vinyl portait un numéro attribué à la série "obscure" (OBS-11)... rayé et remplacé par la mention "AMB-001"...
Le magazine "Enovations" de l'automne 1978 édité par le Fan Club de Brian Eno précise:

Gary Parsons, dans son livre "Decades - Brian Eno in the 1970s" publié aux Editions SonicBond Publishing en septembre 2022 évoque la date de publication de l’album, pour retenir au final "mars 1979"... et je pense qu'il n'est pas loin de la vérité. D'abord il a fait pas mal de recherches dans la presse spécialisée (et aucune n'a évoqué l'album avant 1979), ensuite la publication du dernier album de la série "Obscure" (Harold Budd « The Pavilion of Dreams » - OBS-10) a eu lieu fin 1978.
Même la presse musicale japonaise (branchée Brian Eno depuis le début de sa carrière…) n'a pas évoqué l'album avant mai 1979... (cf le magazine « Rock Magazine », créé à l’initiative de Yuzuru Agi, dont le N° 1 remonte à 1976, et dont les publications ne cessent d’évoquer largement Brian Eno. L’ensemble de ces publications a d’ailleurs été repris dans l’édition du livre « AGI 2/ENO » aux Editions Kyou Records en juin 2022 à l’occasion de l’exposition « Ambient Tokyo »).
En conclusion, l'album « Music for Airports » a bien été publié en 1979... et non 1978 !
Pour confirmer la date de publication retenue par Master Release.

does this edition actually exist or is it the same as the PVC issue, just miscategorized? scant details on this listing--no matrix info and no picture of the rear cover...

Maybe someone with a bit of knowledge on stereo set ups can help me here.

I found a copy of the EG '82 pressing for peanuts but on playback was disappointed with the surface noise on 1.1 (enough crackle to detract from the music)

https://www.discogs.sie.com/Brian-Eno-Ambient-1-Music-For-Airports/release/4682282

I'm definitely no audiophile & normally i'll leave my stereo at a setting that works well for most of my records, which is treble whacked up a couple of notches and bass a couple more. Anyway rather than sulk about my copy i decided to just try and mess around a little with settings. I turned the treble way back down the other way which pretty much eliminated any crackle. Now anytime i've done that in the past i've found I lost too much detail and brightness. With Music for Airports and track 1.1 in particular doing this i thought detracted very little from the sound quality. The track is piano led and really the only slight thing i could notice after switching between the vinyl and digital was a slight loss of brightness on the occasional rising synths. If anything i really liked the effect, which i guess if i could describe it was like laying a really thin layer of cloth over the speakers or listening in a church or cathedral. It's actually really beautiful.

On the remaining three tracks i neutralized the treble (bang in the middle) benefiting the more synth/organ based sounds coming from the speakers.

Anyway i recommend trying it for anyone with a noisy copy. For such a quiet detailed album of 40 plus years old there might be a few out there.

Does anybody else have experience with altering their stereo settings with ambient records? I guess if i want the full 'Bright' playback i can always switch back to my digital files (or the recent halfspeed master?) but my gut feeling is i'll stick with this as i really enjoy the sound.

One final thought. Throughout this whole COVID-19 nightmare i've really struggled to maintain any focus on music and reading, the things i love most. This album Music For Airports has really brought my wandering mind some inner peace and for that reason i'll always be thankful for this music.

Does the track 2/2 actually last 6 minutes on the original edition? According to Wikipedia, the extended 9:38 version first appeared on the CD and Working Backwards box set, but never seen the short version.

I have a copy of this album first pressing it has a white inner sleeve with enos origin of ambient music
the LP has no label on one side and just white paper on the other. I always thought it came that way
but then I saw the original label.

at 17:22 can anyone help me? My friend used to play a very similar track on his cd player in the late 1990s.. I think it was by Wagon Christ (Luke Vibert) but I cannot track it down.. If anyone knows please please reply to this message... Thanks ;)

A great album with history and a true legend in electronic music the first ambient of the story, and the truth was a great beginning for the genre. A beautiful melody that really does your job relax and soothe the environment especially the first song 1 / 1.Ahhhh that more say a piece of art that I would sadly like to have in a physical format instead of a digital one.
I recommend it especially if you had a hard and stressful day will help you a lot :)

A well-known rapper said in an interview, at home he listen Eno's 'Music for Airports' for relaxing. As everyone knows, hip-hop performers are extensively exposed to barrages of beat-clusters. Now, who is unable to recognize melodies in this work, must be seriously eardrum damaged or have cork in both sides.