10.4.07

Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks


Much of this Brian Eno LP sounds very familiar, it must have been used on loads of films, documentaries, adverts, etc although the only one I would have been able to name is Deep Blue Day from the Trainspotting soundtrack.

Previously the only Eno stuff I have heard was Music For Airports, so ambient as to be barely musical, and Here Come The Warm Jets, which is pretty much a straightforward rock LP (with vocals!) recorded shortly after he left Roxy Music. Apollo makes for unsettling listening, and I guess in the right, or wrong, circumstance sit could be downright terrifying. I'd love to see the NASA documentary which it was devised to accompany, I would imagine it would be a perfect marriage of sound and vision.

1 comment:

Graham said...

"a perfect marriage of sound and vision"

Look no further than the Zidane film from last year, to which Mogwai provided the soundtrack. Stunning. http://www.uipfrance.com/sites/zidane/ba2.html