The 12" vinyl record comes in a cardboard sleeve and plays at 33 RPM, making it a must-have for collectors and fans of innovative musical sounds from the 1970s era.
Discreet Music is the fourth studio album by British musician Brian Eno, originally released in December 1975.
It is widely celebrated as a foundational, pioneering milestone in the creation of ambient music.
This LP marks the very first time he released an album under his full name, "Brian Eno," rather than just "Eno".
The Origin Story
The concept for the album famously came to Eno while he was recovering in a hospital bed after being struck by a taxi.
A friend left him an LP of 1800s harp music, but after she left, Eno realized the volume was set incredibly low, and one of his stereo channels was completely dead.
Too weak to get up and fix it, and with rain pouring outside, he lay there listening to the faint notes of the harp blending directly with the natural ambient sound of the rain.
This experience inspired a philosophy heavily influenced by Erik Satie's "furniture music"—creating a texture of sound designed to blend into the atmosphere of a room rather than force intense listening
Tracklist & Album Structure
The album is split cleanly between two distinct minimalist sonic experiments:
Side A: "Discreet Music" (30:30): A singular, side-long ambient track.
Eno created it as an experiment in generative, algorithmic composition using a synthesizer and an early tape-delay loop configuration where the music practically created itself with minimal intervention.
Side B: "Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel" (21:40): Features three distinct movements ("Fullness of Wind", "French Catalogues", and "Brutal Ardour").
Conducted by Gavin Bryars, it features the Cockpit Ensemble playing small, repeated, and gradually shifting fragments of Pachelbel's famous classical score.
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