Brian Eno – Always Returning (1983)

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Good evening… ‘Always Returning’ is a contemplative start to the week. It features on Brian Eno’s Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks released in 1983. The album is genius ambient fare that has already featured a couple of times on this blog. He wrote, produced and performed the music with his brother Roger, and the Canadian musician Daniel Lanois. The album eventually served its purpose as a film score in 1989 with the release of For All Mankind, an Oscar-nominated documentary on the NASA space program. The influence of Eno is well known, but by 1989, Lanois had already gone onto co-produce (with Brian Eno) U2’s Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree LPs and record Peter Gabriel’s So album. That’s not too shoddy.

Brian Eno – Deep Blue Day (1983)

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Brian Eno released Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks in 1983. It was his ninth studio album, but cannot really be called the work of a solo artist. Eno had written, produced and performed the work in collaboration with his brother Roger and Canadian musician Daniel Lanois. The ambient music would find its way onto film scores and this blog (‘An Ending (Ascent)‘). Today, ‘Deep Blue Day’ is more famous for being the soundtrack to the toilet scene in Trainspotting than its original purpose as the music for a documentary on the NASA space program.