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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Do with it what you will.,
This review is from: Neroli (Audio CD)
This is a special record. Taken at face value, I don't think that everyone will say that this stuff on first listen is "great" or "incredible" music or anything like that. It is basically the same scale over and over again, unfolding in a seemingly random, very slow way. However, this is really one of the most successful and truly ambient things I have ever heard. In a way, I imagine that this lives up to Brian Eno's entire concept of what ambient music is about. Two examples of how this record is should be listened to (one involves a short story): 1. Put it on and turn the volume down as low as possible (just barely audible), put the cd player on repeat and lay down (try to sleep, read, etc.). This is most effective if you let it run for several hours (or days). I really think that this is what Eno intended. 2. A couple of years ago I went on a camping trip in a part of extremely rural Southeastern Ohio (Vinton County). On that occasion, I brought a radio (which I don't often do) and at around 3:00 (I imagine, since I don't usually bring a watch with me), I tuned in the only station I could get: some public or college radio station from West Virginia. For an hour I heard the same simple tones over and over, broadcast in a seemingly random, but wholly intentional way. I cannot express the literally overwhelming impact of what I heard as it mixed with the frogs, insects, and whatever else made that night so loud. Pure beauty. As much as any great band on stage, that music on that night drove me to feel something utterly and completely beyond me. I, of course, had to wait for about an hour to hear what it was - Brian Eno's "Neroli". It was awesome (in the real sense of the word) and creepy and comforting and organic and so unbelievably right under that sky that this simple music is still one of the most important musical documents I own. Most of Eno's work is visionary and important, but for me (a huge Eno and ambient fan), this record really codifies what all of the talk is about (the best part of the experience was that I had no idea that what I was hearing was Brian Eno or even a real radio station). That's why this is a special record. It needs to be incorporated into your life to be effective and meaningful. Without meeting it halfway, it is necessarily meaningless, like everything else.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A True Ambient Experience,
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This review is from: Neroli (Audio CD)
"is that the new Brian Eno album or is the fridge playing up again?"...funny that some critic used that line to demean Neroli. Unwittingly, he/she has paid Eno a tribute since the artist intends his ambient pieces to blend in with the sounds of a given environment, to surround rather than come at the listener. Ambient music enhances rather than overwhelms. This is exactly what Neroli does and was created to do. This 58 minute compostition reminds me of a light sprinkle of rain falling on the glassy surface of a pond just before dawn. Neroli is quiet and subtle, very minimalistic and is one of my favorite Brian Eno albums. Other ambient works by Eno that I highly recommend are the lovely "Discreet Music" and "Ambient 1: Music For Airports".
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Glacial beauty,
This review is from: Neroli (Audio CD)
For many listeners, even Eno fans, this disc may be difficult to get into. I bought Neroli in 1999 & I'll confess it sat on my shelf mostly for the first couple months. But after giving the disc repeated listens I find this is one of Eno's most rewarding pieces ever.
This disc is made up of only one track lasting roughly an hour, on a synthesizer (which sounds like a sort of odd processed piano). The opening melody is actually performed (within the first 60 seconds or so), after which the synthesizer breaks up this performance into different segments -- this is basically a digital equivalent of what Eno did with tape loops in the 70's & 80's). Each note is like a small piece turning in a vast, slow moving mobile, with endless variations. It's an odd, constant hovering sensation, with minute textures hiding in the reverb. It reminds me a lot of Morton Feldman's late "pattern pieces" like his "Piano & String Quartet" or "Palais de Mari." It's unfortunate & also surprising that there are some reviewers that didn't care for this piece. The "obstacles" to many listeners seem to be the sheer size of the piece & its very static character (even more static than most of Eno's work). I cetainly would not recommend this to someone who has only recently become interested in Eno's ambient work-- "On Land" is a better place to start (which is, of course, also an excellent Eno album!).
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