Brian Eno "Apollo Atmospheres and Soundtracks", EGLP53, LP 1983 UK 1st Press
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Brian Eno With Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno ? "Apollo - Atmospheres & Soundtracks" EG ? EGLP 53 Vinyl LP released in July 1983. Matrix A4/B3.
The vinyl appears to have been very lightly played and is in fantastic condition. The sleeve has minimal signs of wear. The spine is intact and completely legible. This is a lovely item.
"Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks" was released by Brian Eno in 1983. It was written, produced, and performed by Brian Eno, his brother Roger and Daniel Lanois. Music from the album appeared in the films 28 Days Later, Traffic, and Trainspotting, whose soundtrack sold approximately four million copies. Two of the songs from the album, "Silver Morning" and "Deep Blue Day", were issued as a 7" single on EG Records.
The music was originally recorded in 1983 for a feature length documentary movie called "Apollo" later retitled For All Mankind, directed by Al Reinert. The original version of the film had no narration, and simply featured 35mm footage of the Apollo moon missions collected together roughly chronologically, and set to Eno's music as it appears on the album. Although the film had some limited theatrical runs at so-called "art house" cinemas in some cities, audience response was lukewarm. The filmmakers still felt the film could do better if it reached a wider audience, and so they re-edited the film, added narration, re-structured the music, and re-titled the film in the process. Various edits of the film were shown to test audiences for further refining. As all this was going on, the film's release was delayed until 1989. By that time several tracks on the album were omitted from the soundtrack and replaced by other pieces by Eno and other artists.
The tracks from the album that remain on the final edit of the film are: Always Returning, Drift, Silver Morning, Stars, Under Stars, The Secret Place, An Ending (Ascent).
The newer tracks from the film that are not on the album are: Sirens, Theme for "Opera", Fleeting Smile, Tension Block, Asian River, Quixote, 4-Minute Warning, For Her Atoms.
In the liner notes, Eno relates that when he watched the Apollo 11 landing in 1969 he felt that the strangeness of that event was compromised by the low quality of the television transmission and an excess of journalistic discussion, and that he wished to avoid the melodramatic and uptempo way it was presented. That philosophy dominated when For All Mankind ("Apollo") was originally released as a non-narrative collection of NASA stock footage from the Apollo program. The non-narrative version of the film with the Eno soundtrack was released on VHS video in 1990 by the National Geographic Society. An alternate version was also released by NASA featuring audio interviews but omitting the Brian Eno soundtrack.
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