Comments on: Thursday Afternoon by Brian Eno http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/02/05/thursday-afternoon-by-brian-eno/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:11:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Márcio Salerno http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/02/05/thursday-afternoon-by-brian-eno/comment-page-1/#comment-95139 Márcio Salerno Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:43:35 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=4271#comment-95139 Thursday Afternoon is not exactly my favorite Eno album (Music for Films I is the one), but I listen to it a lot, alongside On Land, Neroli and Music for Airpots, for painting, writing and meditating. Anyway, good to see it's getting aired somewhere, apart from my apartment. All the best Thursday Afternoon is not exactly my favorite Eno album (Music for Films I is the one), but I listen to it a lot, alongside On Land, Neroli and Music for Airpots, for painting, writing and meditating. Anyway, good to see it’s getting aired somewhere, apart from my apartment.
All the best

]]> By: Márcio Salerno http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/02/05/thursday-afternoon-by-brian-eno/comment-page-1/#comment-95138 Márcio Salerno Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:41:02 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=4271#comment-95138 I love Eno's ambience and Thursday Afternoon is a CD I've acquired in one of my trips to Sao Paulo, a few years ago. It's not my favorite (these are three, Music for Airports, On Land and Neroli, not to mention one of my favourite Eno's albums, Music for Films I (but that's not ambience). Anyway, I still use Thursday Afternoon a lot, for painting, writing and meditating. All the best I love Eno’s ambience and Thursday Afternoon is a CD I’ve acquired in one of my trips to Sao Paulo, a few years ago. It’s not my favorite (these are three, Music for Airports, On Land and Neroli, not to mention one of my favourite Eno’s albums, Music for Films I (but that’s not ambience). Anyway, I still use Thursday Afternoon a lot, for painting, writing and meditating.
All the best

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/02/05/thursday-afternoon-by-brian-eno/comment-page-1/#comment-95098 John Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:39:34 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=4271#comment-95098 Hi Colin. I nearly mentioned <em>The Pearl</em> since that gets a lot of playing time as well. I also regard it as something of a companion piece to <em>Thursday Afternoon</em>, it's a lot closer to that than many of Harold Budd's other works. I put <em>On Land</em> in the recommended listening for my Lovecraft book so it has that accolade at least. Apart from the vaguely sinister atmosphere there's also a lateral connection in <em>Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960</em> since the UK place name was borrowed by Lovecraft for his fictional Massachusetts town. And yeah, I have those other albums (I have nearly everything Eno's recorded) but they're too overtly musical in places to be properly ambient. Hi Colin. I nearly mentioned The Pearl since that gets a lot of playing time as well. I also regard it as something of a companion piece to Thursday Afternoon, it’s a lot closer to that than many of Harold Budd’s other works. I put On Land in the recommended listening for my Lovecraft book so it has that accolade at least. Apart from the vaguely sinister atmosphere there’s also a lateral connection in Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960 since the UK place name was borrowed by Lovecraft for his fictional Massachusetts town.

And yeah, I have those other albums (I have nearly everything Eno’s recorded) but they’re too overtly musical in places to be properly ambient.

]]> By: Colin http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/02/05/thursday-afternoon-by-brian-eno/comment-page-1/#comment-95094 Colin Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:40:46 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=4271#comment-95094 Interesting how different your pick of Eno's ambient music is. Mine are The Pearl and On Land, with the former the one that I return to again and again without tiring of it. Pretty good considering that when I bought it on its release as a teenager unacquainted with such music, I came within a hair's breadth of scratching the disc so that I could exchange it for something else. I would also choose Music For Films and Apollo, but suspect they may not fit your definition of ambient. Interesting how different your pick of Eno’s ambient music is. Mine are The Pearl and On Land, with the former the one that I return to again and again without tiring of it. Pretty good considering that when I bought it on its release as a teenager unacquainted with such music, I came within a hair’s breadth of scratching the disc so that I could exchange it for something else.

I would also choose Music For Films and Apollo, but suspect they may not fit your definition of ambient.

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