Ambient 4: On Land cover

Ambient 4: On Land

Released

Officially Brian Eno’s last Ambient series entry, but hardly his last release in that general vein, 1982’s Ambient 4: On Land has since become one of the standard bearers of the genre as such, eight instrumental pieces of beautiful but ghostly, uneasy impact. While a variety of guest performers appeared throughout, including Bill Laswell, Michael Brook and Daniel Lanois, it’s mostly Eno reworking snippets of old sessions, field recordings of animals and other textures into remarkable compositions as “The Lost Day” and “Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960.”

Ned Raggett

Recommended by

Suggestions
Invisible Fields cover

Invisible Fields

Iarla Ó Lionáird
Late Riser cover

Late Riser

The Abramson Singers
Eleventh Hour cover

Eleventh Hour

William Winant, Uwe Dierkson, Fred Frith, Arditti Quartet
Imaginary Cuba cover

Imaginary Cuba

Bill Laswell
Run cover

Run

Ches Smith, Carla Bozulich
Some Kind Of Peace  cover

Some Kind Of Peace

Ólafur Arnalds
Translucence + Drift Music cover

Translucence + Drift Music

John Foxx, Harold Budd