Sonora Portraits

by Brian Eno

Sonora Portraits cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1999-01-01
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 53:19
  • Community rating: 3.26/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A collection of Eno's shorter instrumental pieces written for film, television and installation contexts. The material extends the ambient method of his 'Music for Films' volumes, favouring brief, self-contained textures over long-form drift.

Genres

Descriptors: ambient, minimal, instrumental, atmospheric, spacious

Tracklist

  1. Distant Hill (2:50)
  2. Asian River (4:20)
  3. Radiothesia III (2:28)
  4. Swanky (2:43)
  5. Theme From "Creation" (3:04)
  6. White Mustang (3:01)
  7. Left Where It Fell (7:02)
  8. Spinning Away (5:25)
  9. Stravinsky (4:13)
  10. Saint Tom (3:35)
  11. Theme For "Opera" (2:36)
  12. Neroli (Edit) (5:02)
  13. Brian Eno Speaks (7:00)

Credits

  • Ernest Thornton - artwork [progetto grafico]
  • Ben Fenner - arranged by [music assembly]
  • Mark Ferda - effects [atmospheres], percussion
  • Arturo Stalteri - liner notes, edited by
  • Giampiero Bigazzi - producer [album production], liner notes [a cura di]
  • Daniel Lanois - producer, written-by
  • Claudio Chianura - liner notes
  • Melinda Mele - liner notes [traduzioni]
  • Lorenzo Tommasini - mastered by
  • All Saints Archives - photography
  • Richard Dean - photography
  • Geoff Crawford - photography by
  • Peter Anderson - photography by
  • Roberto Masotti - photography by
  • Francesca Pieraccini - production manager
  • Roger Eno - written-by

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