Discreet Music

by Brian Eno

Discreet Music cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: December 1975
  • Label: Obscure
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 55:04
  • Community rating: 3.9/5 from 10 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Essentially defining the entire ambient genre with its deliberate, profoundly unobtrusive aesthetic, Brian Eno's 'Discreet Music' is a landmark of avant-garde minimalism. The album employs heavily generative tape-loop systems to create an incredibly soothing, wonderfully calm instrumental atmosphere, offering a deeply meditative, beautifully peaceful, and remarkably soft acoustic environment.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, minimalistic, repetitive, ambient, minimal, electronic, generative-music, long-form, orchestral, atmospheric, groundbreaking

Tracklist

  1. Discreet Music (31:34)
  2. Fullness Of Wind (Variation On 'The Canon In D Major' By Johann Pachelbel) (9:55)
  3. French Catalogues (Variation On 'The Canon In D Major' By Johann Pachelbel) (5:19)
  4. Brutal Ardour (Variation On 'The Canon In D Major' By Johann Pachelbel) (8:13)

Credits

  • Brian Eno - primary artist, producer, liner notes, synthesizer [with digital recall system, effects [graphic equalizer, echo unit, delay], tape
  • John Bonis - design
  • Gavin Bryars - conductor [conducted by], arranged by [assistance]
  • Peter Kelsey - engineer [engineered by]
  • The Cockpit Ensemble - performer [performed by]

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